The Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University started as a faculty with 90 students per class (120 at present) in three departments, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Food Processing, when Nagasaki University was established in 1949. The Faculty was first located in Omura, then it moved to Sasebo in 1950 and to the present main campus in Nagasaki in 1961.
A Graduate School of Fisheries (Master's Course) was established in 1970, and another Graduate School of Marine Science and Engineering (Doctoral Course) was established jointly by the Faculty of Fisheries and the Faculty of Engineering in 1988, thus yielding an almost complete education-research system. In the meantime, two research and training ships (Kakuyo Maru 1,044 t and Nagasaki Maru 842 t) were constructed one after another. The Faculty of Fisheries of Nagasaki University has functioned as a center of education and research in the science of fisheries and oceanography in western Japan.
During the 48 years after the establishment, we have sent out 3,821 graduates to the community, greatly contributing to the fisheries in Japan. There have been many foreign students who studied in the Faculty of Fisheries, and are in essential positions in the fields of research, education and administration of fisheries and oceanographic affairs in their respective home countries.