Over the last years, the European Economic Community with its now twelve member states (Belgium, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and UK) has shown a growing commit-ment to development aid in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in general and fisheries training in particular. At present, the value of on-going fisheries aid projects amounts to some US$120 million. Of these, almost 13% (about USS15.4 mil-lion) are being spent on fisheries train¬ing or education projects.