Dean’s Message, Faculty of Fisheries, PSTU
I am delighted to welcome you all to the Faculty of Fisheries at Patuakhali Science and Technology Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম (PSTU), Dumki, Patuakhali, Bangladesh. PSTU is one of leading university for the fisheries education which is situated in the southwestern coastal Patuakhali district of Bangladesh. In PSTU, fisheries education proudly started in 2008 as Department of Fisheries then in 2010 its upgraded to the Faculty of Fisheries. The journey of the faculty commenced with the vision to produce quality graduates equipped with up-to-date knowledge, skills, and research experiences, thus to overcome different challenges in numerous aspects of fisheries. The faculty offers BSc in Fisheries (honors) degree, and eventually MS, and PhD degrees under each department. Considering the significance of different major fields of Aquaculture, Fisheries, Coastal, and Marine sector of the country, the faculty structurally consist of five departments– viz. Department of Aquaculture, Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Department of Fisheries Management, Department of Fisheries Technology, and Department of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography. Major strengths of the faculty of fisheries are its energetic-skilled faculty members, outcome-based curriculum, well-equipped classrooms and several research laboratories for undergraduate and post-graduate research, experimental fish farms, and easy access to riverine, coastal and marine resources of the Bay of Bengal. These opportunities enable fisheries students to explore their interests and enhance their professional skills and capabilities, particularly through hands on practical classes, individuals and/or group power point and/or poster presentation, idea demonstration, technological interventions, study tours, field-lab-based research work, and bachelor dessertation. The faculty is conducting numerous cutting-edge researches in collaboration with and funded by different national and international agencies. The graduates from this faculty have already gained recognition in achieving higher degree (MS and PhD) with prestigious foreign scholarship, and also entrepreneurship development and employee in the private-public sectors of Bangladesh. Moreover, the faculty encourages and facilitates students' co-curriculum activities with that faculty team recognized as champion in interfaculty football and cricket tournaments. In the coming days, the faculty will lead to explore the marine sector of Bangladesh by establishing the ‘Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography’ at Kuakata Patuakhali which is under ministerial process of the government. Finally, the PSTU faculty of fisheries is contributing to climate resilience fisheries production, sustainable utilization of inland, coastal and marine resources, socio-economic development, employment opportunities, nutritional security, seafood safety, and export earning of the country consequently achieving the blue economy, sustainable development goal and other national and global index.