The invention relates to a Welan gum producing marine strain, which belongs to Sphingomonas sp.WG, and has a preservation number of CCTCC No: M2013161. According to the present invention, the strain can be cultured in a liquid culture medium so as to obtain the Welan gum, and the production efficiency is high; the requirements of the strain of the present invention on the carbon source and the nitrogen source are low; the fermentation process comprises: (1) seed liquid culture and (2) fermentation production of Welan gum; the extraction and purification steps comprise: (1) fermentation broth pretreatment, (2) crude product precipitation, (3) impurity removing, and (4) drying so as to obtain the Welan gum product; with application of the marine strain to produce the Welan gum in the fermentation manner, the yield can be up to 33 g / L, and the extraction and purification yield can be up to 95%; and with the strain and the method of the present invention, the low-cost, high-efficiency and high-quality Welan gum production can be achieved.