Abstract: As an important marine commercial fish, with the change of environment and human exploitation, the number of wild silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus) increasingly reduces. On the basis of biological characteristics of silver pomfret, the artificial cultivation and breeding will be the main reducing reason. The reproductive periods are from April to June each year, and the spawning areas are mainly in depth of 10-20 m and 26‰-31‰ salinity, close to the river estuary and the coast with abundant nutriment and plankton;the gonadal change of silver pomfret can be divided into phase I ~ VI, and the fish will be different developing period in same time because of temperature and illumination. At present, there is large difference between wild and reared silver pomfret in the development of gonadal tissue, and the ordinary feed is unable to provide adequate nutrition in period of reproduction, so the feed should be added with some supplement such as the copepods and jellyfish; bubbles, white spot and bacterial disease could causes high mortality rate of the fish, hence, in the process of culturing, the cure should be combined with prevention. In this paper, based on current internal and external studies about wild and artificial breeding, we compare the characteristics of gonadal and embryonic development of them, and summarize the research results about culturing parental fish, control of reared environment, component of feed. Based on the current problems existing in the artificial rearing, we put forward some suggestions and the prospect about promotion of culturing quality, nutrition of feed and the screen of qualified strain.

Key words: silver pomfret（Pampus argenteus）, reproduction, artificial rearing , nutrition of feed