NEW UPDATE!
THE MS AND PHD DEGREES ARE OFFICIALLY APPROVED.
WE WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS STARTING DECEMBER 15, 2025.
Welcome!
The Sustainable Fisheries Graduate Program is a joint, transdisciplinary program in the School of Ocean, Earth Sciences and Technology (SOEST), College of Natural Sciences (CNS), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR), Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge (HSHK), College of Social Sciences (CSS), and the College of Arts, Languages and Letters (CALL).
This graduate program will train the next generation of fisheries scientists and marine resource managers in the U.S. Pacific region handling some of the U.S.’s most economically and culturally valuable fisheries. By creating a nexus of tropical fisheries study, the fisheries faculty and graduate program will promote collaborative efforts between UH, local resource managers, and experts from other nations around the Pacific rim to achieve sustainable solutions for island-scale to multinational fisheries.
Degrees Available
Careers
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Our Program offers the following four options in Sustainable Fisheries:
Gain expertise in the field of fisheries to qualify for exceptional careers as a:
- Fisheries scientist
- Fisheries management professional
- Manager of nonprofit organizations for fisheries management
- Policy leader of ecosystem-based fisheries
Visit Hawaii’s Employment and Wage Statistics (2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Fisheries course (PACS 655) will be offered in Spring 2026
- Oceanography seminar on Spillovers from Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
- NREM Seminar by Fisheries faculty, Kanoeʻulalani Morishige
- UH sustainable fisheries graduate program seeks to elevate Pacific expertise
- Oceanography Seminar by Fisheries faculty, Eileen Nalley