Fisheries education did not receive much attention in
Kerala in the past even though Kerala continued for long
to be the foremost State in India in marine fish production
and export. It was realised that technical manpower should
form the backbone of a developing industry like Fisheries.
Fisheries is a highly multidisciplinary subject and, in order
to have a successful professional career in the field of fisheries,
one should become familiar with a variety of subjects
other than Zoology, like Aquaculture, Fishery Biology, Oceanography,
Limnology, Processing Technology, Fisheries Economics,
Fisheries Statistics etc. It was felt that professional
degree programmes in fisheries at the University level similar
to the graduate and post-graduate programmes in Agriculture,
Veterinary & Animal Sciences, should be started in
the fisheries sector also in order to provide the much needed
technical manpower in this sector. As per the Kerala
Agricultural University Act, 1972, fisheries education comes
under the purview of the Kerala Agricultural University
