In India the fisheries sector lays great emphasis
on developing fisheries education to produce
professionally competent personnel. However, prior
to Independence, the importance attached to fisheries
as a whole was far from satisfactory. In 1947 the
Government oflndia started two adhoc educational
and training programmes one in Calcutta for
Freshwater fisheries and the other at Mandapam
camp (Tamil Nadu) for Marine Fisheries. The
Fisheries Education committee (1959) headed by late
Dr N K Panickkar, recommended to set up two
national level
