There are 10 Fisheries Technical High Schools in the state. These are boarding schools and the students are given free mess and other facilities by the department through local Government. Construction of school and hostel buildings and the repairs of capital nature are also carried out by the Department. It is provided to restructure the functioning of these schools to make them viable. The outlay provided is for the construction of a new building for the Regional Fisheries Technical School at Beypore, improving the infrastructure of the existing fisheries Technical High Schools and the monthly mess charges of students.
The Department of Fisheries is the implementing agency