Abstract
Aquaculture of marine algae in China started with the cultivation of the glueweed or Chicai (“red vegetable”) Gloiopeltis furcata in Jinmen (Quimoy) County near the city of Xiamen (Amoy) in southern Fujian Province by the rock-cleaning method since the Sung Dynasty (960–1279 A.D.) (Tseng, 1933, 1990). Cultivation of the purple laver or zicai (“purple vegetable”), Porphyra haitanensis, was initiated in Pingtan County (Haitan Island), in Fujian Province more than two hundred years ago, also by the rock-cleaning method (Tseng and Chang, 1956). It was presumed that seaweed farmers of Pingtan learned the technique from those of Jinmen who had preceded the former by several hundred years. Seaweed farmers knew nothing about the life histories of these seaweeds and just knew by experience that during a certain time of the year, their “seeds” would abound in water at the particular region concerned and just before this, they should clean the rocks, which used to have good growth of the desired seaweeds every year, by scraping off the barnacles and other sessile growth, including other wild undesirable seaweeds, and finally by liming the scraped rocks during low tide. The cleaned rocks would thus provide favorable substrates for seaweed “seeds” to settle and develop (Tseng, 1981, 1990).
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Cheng-kui, Z. (1994). Aquaculture of Marine Algae in China. In: Di, Z., Yuan-Bo, L., Cheng-Kui, Z. (eds) Oceanology of China Seas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0862-1_30
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