Amide herbicides have been applied in a wide range of modern agricultural production due to the advantages of high efficiency, high selectivity, broad-spectrum, low-cost, easy operation, and so on. The amide herbicides have a slow degradation rate in soil, and is easy to migrate and accumulate in the environment, which may negatively affect the health of consumer through the bioconcentration of amide herbicides in aquatic products and the transmission along the food chain. This study focus on the physicochemical properties, toxic effects, migration and transformation rules, detection technology research progress and the residues status in freshwater environment of amide herbicides. The results show that the current residues detection and analysis of amide herbicides mainly focus on environmental samples such as water and soil as well as crops such as soybean and corn, but fewer research reports on amide herbicides in freshwater aquatic products. This review provides a theoretical basis for the following research fields of amide herbicides, including development of detection technologies, pollution prevention and standard operation in the integrated fishery farming mode. [Chinese Fishery Quality and Standards, 2023, 13(3): 43-52]