The Commercial Fishery Faculty was founded in 1931, the basis of which was the Commercial Fishery Department founded in 1915 by Professor Baranov.

Departments:

• Commercial Fishery
• Hydrologic System and Water Use
• Safety of Life

Specialities:

• Commercial Fishery
• Safety of Technological Processes and Production
• Complex Usage and Protection of Hydrologic System

The faculty offers Bachelor and Master Degree courses, as well as specialist training in design and operation of fishing and aquaculture gear, fishing organization and management.
The Department of Commercial Fishery trains specialists in ocean fisheries, commercial sea techniques for inland ponds and lakes, development of fishing gear.
The Department has the following laboratories:

• Fishing gear construction technology;
• Fishing equipment;
• Maritime work and hydro-acoustics;
• CAD systems for fishing gear;
• Fishing modes;
• Fishing devices
• Simulator training for trawl and purse-seine fishery

Research is carried out by academics and researchers, postgraduates and engineers in the following areas:

• Physical modelling and computer simulation of fishing gear and fishing processes;
• CAD systems to analyse fishing techniques;
• Mathematical modelling of fish stocks and their rational usage;
• Mechanization and automation of fishing processes;
• Construction and rigging of aquaculture systems.

Academics and researchers of the Faculty have developed and implemented a number of computer programmes including:

• Trawl otter board design;
• Data base of parameter information on industrial schemes and mechanisms of fishing vessels;
• Calculation system of the parameters of industrial aquaculture closed systems;
• Feasibility study and optimization of trawl design characteristics;
• Calculation system for trawl board balance.

There are post-graduate and doctorate studies offered at the faculty.
In 1998-1999 the faculty started training engineers in "Complex usage and protection of hydrologic system" and "Safety of technological processes and production" (Engineers).
For all these activities the Department has a Computer Aided Design Laboratory founded in 1991. The Laboratory is used for training students in Theory, Design and Operation of Commercial Fishing Gear, as well as Mechanization and Automation of Commercial Fishing Processes. The faculty now focuses on economic and business component in education taking into account individual peculiarities and wishes of students. There are possibilities for students to go abroad for a practical semester to Denmark, Sweden and Great Britain. International character of modern fisheries motivates students to learning foreign languages, modern fishing technologies and aquaculture.