TANG QISHENG Tang Qisheng is a marine fisheries ecologist working at Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences. He was born in Dalian City, Liaoning Province in 1943. He graduated from Yellow Sea Fishery College in 1961 and went Norway and America as a visiting scholar from 1981 though 1984. He has been a research professor since 1992, director general at Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute since 1994 and president of China Fisheries Society since 2001. He was the member of Science Board and chairman of Fishery Science Committee of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), a member of GLOBEC Science Steering Committee. Prof. Tang is a member of IOCIUCNNOAA Consultative Committee on LMEs and the consultative expert on earth science at National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was voted as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999.  Professor Tang is involved in the research of marine living resources development and sustainable utilization. Since 1980s he dedicated mainly on the marine fisheries biology and fish stock assessment to publish the first marine fisheries biology literature. The development of Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) is a world ocean management idea and Prof. Tang is the leading researcher on the fisheries management in the Yellow Sea large marine ecosystem. His achievement on the North Pacific Ocean Pollock larva gains the important result in the world. Since 1990s Prof. Tang has involved mainly in constituting the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) Science Plan and Implementation Plan and put his attention on the study and development of GLOBEC in China and the world, especially on the studies of oceanographic multidisciplinary and sustainable utilization of living marine resources research. He is the principle scientist of a series of China GLOBEC Projects on the ecosystems of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea and East China Sea. One of the projects is one of the National Basic Research Program (“973 Program”). Now Prof. Tang is in charge of the second project of “973 Program” on Key Processes and Sustainable Mechanisms of Ecosystem Food Production in the Coastal Ocean of China. His studies focus on the food web trophdynamics at high trophic level and ecological effects of environment change.  Professor Tang won more than ten scientific & technological awards in the Chinese national and ministry level. More than 220 research papers and 18 books have been published by his studies. He has been recognized as a“Distinguished Young Scientific and Technological Achievement”by the Chinese government, “Advanced Scientist on Agricultural Science and Technology,” and“China Agriculture Elite Award” by the Ministry of Agriculture of China.