Abstract:This paper summarizes the situation of the resource of marine shellfish in China, and its utilization status in traditional processed food, functional food, medicine field and other fields. Besides, on the base of problems with the utilization of the resource of marine shellfish in China, four measures were proposed for Chinese shellfish development from the aspects of shellfish culture, technical equipment of shellfish processing, deep processing and comprehensive utilization of shellfish, and shellfish risk control.
