The Fisheries College of Jimei University (JMU) is formerly known as the Xiamen Fisheries College which was set up in 1972 when Shanghai Fisheries College moved south to Xiamen. In 1994, the JMU was established by merging five existing institutions in Jimei. Xiamen Fisheries College was also merged into JMU and renamed as the Fisheries College of JMU.

In the Fisheries College of JMU, there are: 1 center for post-doctoral studies in Fishery, 1 doctoral degree-granting program of the first - level discipline - Fishery, 2 master degree-granting programs of the first-level disciplines - Fishery and Biology, 4 Undergraduate Programs - Aquaculture, Animal Science (Aquatic Feeds and Nutrition), Science and Technology of Marine Fisheries, and Aquatic Animal Medicine. Among them, Aquaculture is rated as the national characteristic specialty. The teaching team of Aquaculture is rated as the provincial teaching team. The College currently comprises about 1100 full-time undergraduate students, 330 postgraduate students and 35 PhD candidates. There are 93 faculty members in the College, including 35 professors, and 39 associate professors.

The College has several established centers. Such as Engineering Research Centre of Eel Industry of the Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture in the East China Sea of the Ministry of Agriculture, Center of Large Yellow Croaker Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Fisheries Resources and Ecological Environment, Provincial Bank of Pyropia haitanensis Germplasm Resource, Provincial Key Laboratory of Science & Technology of Aquaculture and Food Safety, and National Fisheries Science Experimental Teaching Center. We also have practical training bases for undergraduate students, and 16 research bases where enterprises and universities cooperate.