The university has first-class research conditions with fully-equipped teaching and research labs. The library has a total storage of more than 2.6 million books featuring marine science, aquaculture and food science.

Aquatic Genetic Resources Excavation and Aquacultural Ecology Laboratory of the Ministry of Education

1.Aquatic Genetic Resources Excavation and Utilization Laboratory of the Ministry of Education

2.Aquatic Genetic Resources Excavation and Aquacultural Ecology Laboratory of the Ministry of Education

3.Fisheries Flora and Fauna Pathogen Data Center of the Ministry of Agriculture

4.Fish Nutrition and Environment Ecology Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture

5.Shanghai University E-institute of Aquaculture

6.Water Ecological Environment Shanghai Research Center

7.Oceanic Fisheries Resources Sustainable Development Laboratory of the Ministry of Education

8.Distant Water Fisheries Training Center of the Ministry of Agriculture

9.Oceanic Creature Resource Development and Utilization Shanghai University Key Laboratory

10.Refrigerator and Refrigeration Equipment Quality Supervision and Detection Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture

11.China Fisheries Development Center for Strategic Studies

12.Shanghai Engineering and Technology Research Center of Aquaculture

13.Ocean fisheries Resources Environmental Observation Station of the Ministry of Agriculture

14.Key Open Laboratory of Aquatic Genetic Resources and Its Utilization of the Ministry of Agriculture

15.Risk Assessment Key Laboratory of Storage and Preservation of Aquatic Products of the Ministry of Agriculture

16.Aquatic Products Processing and Storage Shanghai Engineering and Technology Research Center

17.State-level offshore fishing Engineering Technology Research Center

State-level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center

Based on the first-level discipline of Fisheries Science which contains three second-level disciplines, namely, Aquiculture, Piscatorial Resources, and Fishing Science, Fisheries Science Teaching and Practice Centre of Shanghai Ocean University mainly serves the following 4 undergraduate majors, namely, Aquiculture, Science and Technology of Marine Fishery, Science and Technology of Aquatic Animals, and Bioscience (former Aquatic Biology).