Largemouth Bass Pond Culture in China: A Review

Abstract

Largemouth bass micropterus salmoides natives to freshwater area of North America, which is a kind of famous global economic fi sh, and belongs to Centrarchidae, Perciformes in taxonomy. The fi sh has been extensively cultured all over the world, due to it some advantageous traits such as delicious meat, strong disease resistance and fast growth speed. This review will summarize the studies aimed at the pond culture technology of largemouth bass in China from artifi cial breeding, offspring culture, fi ngerling and commercial fi sh culture, to diseases prevention. Which should be useful for further studies and the aquaculture industry.