Shanghai Fisheries University, which was formerly, Jiangsu Provincial Fisheries School established in 1912, is a university with 94-year history and glorious tradition. In 1952, it became the first fisheries college, namely, Shanghai Fisheries College and was renamed in 1985 Shanghai Fisheries University. Since 2000, it has been jointly constructed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Shanghai government but administered by Shanghai Education Commission. It has developed into a multi-disciplinary university focusing on the coordinated development in agriculture, science, engineering, economics, arts and management with complete disciplines and distinguishing features.
The university consists of 8 special colleges, namely, College of Aqua-life Science and Technology, College of Marine science and Technology, College of Food Science and Technology, College of Economic Management, College of Information Technology, College of Humanities, College of Engineering, and College of Foreign Languages as well as other 4 colleges, including College of International Cultural Exchange, College of Continuing Education, College of Higher Technical and Vocational Education, and the joint IEN Institute by the University and Australia. In addition, the Central Agricultural Cadres Training Center, SFU Branch and the Ocean Fisheries Training Center of Ministry of Agriculture are also located in the University.
The university has 1 national key discipline, 7 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 1 educational highland of Shanghai and 1 E-Institute of Shanghai Universities. It has one postdoctoral station, 1 doctoral program of the first-level discipline, 6 doctoral programs of the second-level disciplines, 1 master program of the first-level discipline, 23 master programs of the second-level disciplines, 7 equivalent-education master programs, 29 bachelor programs (including 6 state administered specialties) and several higher technical and vocational specialties.
There are 12,700-odd undergraduate students and 670 postgraduates enrolled in the university. Among 880 work staff members, 620 are teachers and scientific researchers, including 210 with senior titles and 88 master and doctoral supervisors. There is one professor from the University acting as the counselor in the Academic Degree Appraisal Board of the State Council, and another one selected in the State Project of “Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents”. In addition, 2 and 3 teachers are respectively awarded the honorary title of the State Distinguished Young-and-Middle-aged Expert and the title of the Provincial or Ministerial Distinguished Young-and-Middle-aged Expert.
Enjoying good facilities for education and complete laboratories and special experimental equipment, the university owns the Key Open Laboratory of Aquatic Genetic Resources Excavation and Utilization of the Ministry of Education, the Key Open Laboratory of Aquatic Genetic Resources and Aquaculture Ecology of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Bank and Refrigeration Center of Aquatic Animals and Plants Pathogens of the Ministry of Agriculture, etc. The library has a total storage of 685,000 books and 360,000 electronic books featuring fishery, marine science and food. Owning a modern campus network, the university has established a platform “China Fisheries Network” serving the fisheries industry of our country. Journal of Fisheries and Journal of SFU sponsored by the university are listed as key Chinese journals, China key scientific and technological journals and China scientific and technological papers citation source journals. Journal of Fisheries has been awarded the title of the first and second session of “one hundred excellent academic journals of China”.
Since 1990s, there are over 60 scientific and technological achievements leading the world, over 90 belonging to innovation or leading the country, over 10 awarded the state-level prizes and nearly 50 the provincial or ministerial-level prizes. In addition, over 30 patents have been achieved. The university has made great contribution in such fields as environmental protection, species protection, genetic breeding, food processing, marine resources development and utilization, aquaculture, agricultural economy and so on.
The university has built a close relationship and cooperation with the universities of the U.S.A, Japan, Russia, and Australia, and several international organizations. The university has exchanged overseas students with universities in several countries, participated in the Sino-America cooperative projects of marine living resources for a long period, and established a long-period and friendly cooperation with such international organizations as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, UNESCO, Fisheries Information Center, Asian Fisheries Society, and International Aquatic Living Resources Management Center, etc.
To cater to the trend of popularization of higher education in China, promote the development of fisheries, marine science and technology, and higher education, and cultivate special talents so as to meet the great need of the society and regional economy, the university has put forward the aim in the new age: in 2012, the centennial of the university, it will be developed into a world-renowned special university with distinctive advantage in such disciplines as aquaculture, marine science and technology, and food engineering, etc., while agriculture, science, engineering, economics, art, and administration, etc., developing coordinately. Besides, the university will attach importance to both teaching and scientific research so that it will be a cradle for cultivating senior special talents and high quality applied talents, and an important base for scientific innovation in fisheries, marine science and technology, and food engineering, etc.