B.Sc Fisheries

A four-year professional degree in fisheries science covering aquaculture, fish biology, harvest and post-harvest technology, and fisheries management. It includes substantial field, hatchery and processing plant work rather than classroom study alone.

Aquaculture and hatchery management, fish nutrition and genetics, aquatic ecology and water quality, fishing craft and gear technology, fish processing and preservation, and fisheries economics and extension.

Students in coastal and inland fishery states who want a professional science degree with both government and enterprise routes. It is markedly less crowded than agriculture, and inland aquaculture is expanding with policy support behind it.

Employment is concentrated in fishery states, so where you are from shapes your options more than in most degrees. Government posts are limited and reached through competitive examinations with irregular vacancies. Private aquaculture work means wet, hot field conditions. If you go into your own farm or hatchery, understand that disease can destroy a crop with little warning and export prices swing hard - it is the most volatile enterprise in the sector.