Abstract:Marine ranch is a kind of means for changing ecological environment, increasing and breeding aquatic resources near sea. Based on surveying data of single beam, subbottom profile, shallow sediments as well as collecting of former data, characteristics of submarine topography, stratum structure, sediment types, hydrodynamic conditions and present condition of the construction of artificial reef have been analyzed in this paper. As showed by the results, the sea areas of Rizhao city that satisfy artificial reef construction conditions are in southeast side of Liangcheng town and east side of Taoluo town. There are 7 out of 4 national marine ranches and 8 provincial marine ranches that satisfy artificial reef construction conditions. These areas are between 3 and 20 kilometers away from the coastline where water depths are between 6 and 22 meters and seafloor gradient is gentle. The bearing capacity is more than five tons per square meter, meanwhile, current velocity is generally less than 0.8 meters per second. The water quality in these area is clean, and the food in water is abundant.