Aquaculture is one major with the longest undergraduate education history in Jimei University. It was founded when the former Shanghai Fisheries College moved to Xiamen to establish Xiamen Fisheries College in 1972. It was listed as a national specialty major construction project in 2010, listed as a national comprehensive reform project in 2013, selected as a national excellent agriculture and forestry professional education and training plan reform project in 2014, listed as a service industry characteristic specialty construction project in Fujian Province, and listed as a national first-class undergraduate specialty construction project by the Ministry of education in 2019. The Fisheries discipline of this major is a class A peak discipline in Fujian Province and a characteristic key discipline in Fujian Province. It has a complete professional training system of Undergraduate- Master- Doctor-Postdoctoral station.

    Training objectives: Under the guidance of "New Agricultural" aquaculture professional education concept, serve and lead the industry and local economy, highlight the education characteristics of "emphasizing foundation, strengthening practice and being able to innovate", take aquaculture professional knowledge as the main line, strengthen students' aquaculture skills, scientific research ability and innovation and Entrepreneurship ability, and cultivate top notch innovative and compound application professionals with all-round development of morality, intelligence, sports, beauty and labor, and with good scientific and cultural literacy, high sense of social responsibility, the ability to undertake the mission of strengthening agriculture and revitalizing agriculture, and the ability to engage in production and operation, management, scientific and technological research and development, education and other work in the whole aquatic industry chain, provide professionals for local economic development, Rural Revitalization and ecological civilization construction.