Schools to each people about fishing before war:
Systematic training and skills development for the fisheries sector was non-existent until 1954 when the Italian Trusteeship Administration (Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia — AFIS) established the first Fisheries and Maritime Professional School (Scuola Professionale Marittima e di Pesca) in Mogadishu.56 The school, which provided an intermediate level of education, was intended to train skilled workers for the maritime and fisheries sectors. It functioned through the mid-1960s but was closed for unknown reasons. It remained closed for several years and was only reopened in 1971, two years after Siyad Barre took power, under a new name (the Maritime and Fisheries Institute) with an upgraded status as a technical secondary school. Like all other technical schools at the time, the institute initially relied on the services of foreign teachers as there were not many Somalis in the country who were qualified to teach maritime and fisheries subjects. In order to rectify this problem, in 1976 the government established the Technical and Commercial Teachers College to train teachers for three groups of schools, namely the Maritime and Fisheries Institute, the Mogadishu and Burao Technical Schools (Polytechnics) and the Sheikh Yusuf Al-Kowneyn Commercial Secondary School in Mogadishu. In the 1980s, another maritime and fisheries institute was established in Barawe to cater for the skills needs of the fishing communities in the Lower Shabelle region and surrounding areas. The Technical and Commercial Teachers College had three departments, one of which offered maritime and fisheries education. The Maritime and Fisheries Department offered three bachelor of science (BSc) degree programs, in fisheries studies, nautical studies and marine engineering. The two institutes and the college were together able to produce a sufficient number of job-ready graduates, allowing the country to become self-reliant within several years when it came to the skills needs of the maritime and fisheries sectors.
Systematic training and skills development for the fisheries sector was non-existent until 1954 when the Italian Trusteeship Administration (Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia — AFIS) established the first Fisheries and Maritime Professional School (Scuola Professionale Marittima e di Pesca) in Mogadishu.56 The school, which provided an intermediate level of education, was intended to train skilled workers for the maritime and fisheries sectors. It functioned through the mid-1960s but was closed for unknown reasons. It remained closed for several years and was only reopened in 1971, two years after Siyad Barre took power, under a new name (the Maritime and Fisheries Institute) with an upgraded status as a technical secondary school. Like all other technical schools at the time, the institute initially relied on the services of foreign teachers as there were not many Somalis in the country who were qualified to teach maritime and fisheries subjects. In order to rectify this problem, in 1976 the government established the Technical and Commercial Teachers College to train teachers for three groups of schools, namely the Maritime and Fisheries Institute, the Mogadishu and Burao Technical Schools (Polytechnics) and the Sheikh Yusuf Al-Kowneyn Commercial Secondary School in Mogadishu. In the 1980s, another maritime and fisheries institute was established in Barawe to cater for the skills needs of the fishing communities in the Lower Shabelle region and surrounding areas. The Technical and Commercial Teachers College had three departments, one of which offered maritime and fisheries education. The Maritime and Fisheries Department offered three bachelor of science (BSc) degree programs, in fisheries studies, nautical studies and marine engineering. The two institutes and the college were together able to produce a sufficient number of job-ready graduates, allowing the country to become self-reliant within several years when it came to the skills needs of the maritime and fisheries sectors.
