Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (YSFRI), Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS), is a multidisciplinary marine fisheries research institute affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture. YSFRI was founded in Shanghai as the Central Fisheries Laboratory pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in January 1947, and moved to Qingdao in December 1949. Subjected to the affiliation changes, YSFRI used to be  named as Marine Fisheries Research Institute under the Ministry of Fishery of the People’s Republic of China, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute subjected to the National Administration of Fishery, and YSFRI had her current name in 1982.