History

In 1951 the Faculty of Fisheries training staff for maritime and inland fisheries was established at the Tertiary College of Agriculture functioning in Olsztyn at that time. During the fifties and sixties the Faculty enjoyed full academic rights, the best scientific staff in the field of fisheries and the program of education.

The best known professors of that Faculty were Stanisław Korwin-Sakowicz – the first Dean and the director of the Institute of Inland Fisheries, Przemysław Olszewski – Dean of the Division of Inland Fisheries and founder of the Faculty of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries, Robert Towarnicki, Eugeniusz Grabda, Franciszek Pliszka, Stanisław Bernatowicz, Bolesław Dąbrowski, Józef Mikulski, Walerian Cięglewicz, Kazimierz Stegman, Władysław Mańkowski, Józef Popiel, Teofil Dąbrowski, Marian Zięcik and many others.

During the years 1966-1968 the chairs specializing in the maritime subjects were moved to the Tertiary College of Agriculture in Szczecin where the Faculty of Maritime Fisheries and Food Technology was established. The four Chairs left in Olsztyn - Fisheries, Limnology, Ichthyology and Economies of Fishery Enterprises were used to establish the Division of Inland Fisheries at the Faculty of Animal Husbandry. In 1970, on the initiative by Professor Przemysław Olszewski and the scientific personnel, with support of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, using as the starting assets the Division and the Chair of Zoology transferred from the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, the Faculty of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries was established by the executive regulation of the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Education.

Assistant Professor, dr. hab. Tadeusz Wojno, later Professor and Deputy Rector of the School was nominated the first Dean of the new Faculty. He was followed in the office of the Dean by Professors Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Zofia Różańska, Maria Brylińska, Konstanty Lossow (twice), Andrzej Mamcarz and Janusz Guziur.

During the years 1970-1996, the organizational structure of the Faculty changed in adjustment to continually updated curriculum and profile of graduate. Until 1996, the Faculty consisted of five Departments: Fisheries, Basic Fishery Sciences, Zoology, Ecology as well as Chemistry and Technology of Water and Wastewaters. As of January 31, 1997, the Faculty changed its name (Faculty of Water Protection and Inland Fisheries) and transformed into the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Fisheries, which corresponds to the actual profile of education and research.

According to the decision by the Central Commission for Scientific Titles and Scientific Degrees in Warsaw of July 5, 1999, the Council of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences  and Fisheries was given the rights to grant the degree of doctor habilitatus.

Further development of the Faculty required changes in the course in environment protection. Establishment of the courses of education at other faculties and in other schools required introduction of specializations that could be easily associated with the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Fisheries of the University of Warmia and Mazury. The Senate of the University, in its resolution of November 21, 1999, established the following courses within the course of studies in environment protection:

• Course: protection of natural resources. Specializations: protection of waters, protection of forest resources
• Course: ecological engineering. Specializations: wastewaters treatment and solid waste utilization, environment management.