Facilities

Facilities

On-board training for navigation, seamanship, fishing gear operation, ocean research, meteorology and sampling is offered, using two training vessels (Kagoshima-Maru and Nansei-Maru)

	Training Vessel　Kagoshima-Maru
Undergraduate students experience navigation, seamanship, longline fishing, trawling, oceanographic observation during on-board training.

	Training Vessel　Nansei-Maru
We perform on-board training and oceanographic survey at Kagoshima-Bay and east-china sea as main activity area. We research about trawling, longline fishing, single-hook fishing, water temperature, water quality, current, sediment, marine observation, fishing gear performance, voyage instrument, ship motion, marine resources, etc.

	Training food factory
We equip a can seamer for canned foods, a pressurizer for retort pack foods and a smoking machine for smoked food at training food factory.These are used for "Fisheries food manufacturing training" and developing new food product as graduate work.

	Kamoike On-shore Laboratory
There are many water tank for breeding fishes, shrimp and shellfish. We research about feed and breeding environment for cultivation.

	Flume Tank Laboratory
The flume tank is a big tank which can test of fluid dynamics. You can observe fluid model from the window placed at tank. We innovate a fishing net and boat for economical and ecological products.

	Education and Research Centre for Marine Resources and Environment
We perform fundamental researches to clean the environment of the area along the shore such as the Gulf of Kagoshima using the self-purification of marine biology. We also cooperate with developing countries on technical guidance.

	Liaison Office
We have collaborated with University of the Philippines Visayas under the theme of "A study on management and conserve of marine resources and environment in the Philippines" since 1998. And now, we are establishing the Southeastern Asian Research and Education center as international project and working on "Conservation and management of hydrosphere environmental" as main theme. There is a liaison office at University of the Philippines Visayas as an important research exchange office. Also, at Visayas school, Philippine office of the Faculty of Fisheries is established.