…Sinop University is a state university established with 5662 numbered law published in Official Gazette numbered 26536 and dated 29 May 2007. The campus of our university is in Sinop, the norths point of Turkey. The Aquaculture Graduate School, the first higher educational institution of the city was established within the structure of Ondokuz Mayıs University. Sinop University is legal entity and is a non-profit organization and the separate organization from other state governmental organs, which operates independently. Today, our university gives education in 10 faculties, 1 institute of graduate studies, 3 high schools and 7 vocational schools. Fisheries Faculty was connected to Sinop University and its acronym is “SNU-FF”. Fisheries Faculty of Sinop University has risen to national prominence as a centre for teaching research in Marine Biology and Ecology, Fishing Technology, Fish Processing, and Aquaculture. The academic staff has responsibility for teaching to undergraduate students, with field courses and lectures in Sinop. We also offer 2-year M.Sc. courses in Marine Biology and Ecology, Environmental Science (Marine Pollution, Toxicology), Fishing Technology, Fish Processing and Aquaculture. An important activity at Fisheries Faculty is training in research. Supervised by members of the teaching staff, postgraduate students undergo four years of research training for the Ph.D. degree, their work often contributing to the research programmers maintained by the staff.

Fisheries Faculty of Sinop University (SNU-FF) divided into 3 divisions, namely Main Branch of Basic Science of Fisheries Faculty, Main Branch of Fishing Technology and Processing and Main Branch of Aquaculture. We have 29 academic staff and 9 research assistants in the Faculty. There are 7 laboratories at the Faculty for various research activities. We have own research vessel. The fields of research of Fisheries Faculty are the fauna and flora living in the seas, rivers, and lakes of Turkey, their breeding, the sources of nourishment they provide and the productivity of aquatic resources.