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Eft•.ma·•..•·gel A~eCl~·yoFA$AKIN B.Sc. M.Sc. (Ibadan), Ph.D (Akure) Professor of Fish N,yt,rition and Util,ization FISH AS FOOD: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES 48 Delivered at THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AKURE On Tuesday 4th March, 2008 by: Emmanuel Adedayo FASAKIN B.Sc. M.Sc. (Ibadan), Ph.D (Akure) Professor of FlshNutrltlon and Utilization FISH AS FOOD: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER The Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Academic and Development), The Registrar, Other Principal Officers of the University, Deans, Directors and Heads of Departments, My Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Fellow Academic and Professional Colleagues, Distinguished Guests and Friends of the University, Great Futarians, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Sometime in 1979, as a young undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, I had the privilege of attending an inaugural lecture of this nature for the first time. The lecture was delivered by the then Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine, Professor Nurudeen Olorunnibe Adedipe. I was fascinated by the decorum and glamour of the occasion even more than the presentation of the erudite Professor of Crop Physiology, The humility and the ritual of "doffing cap" by the lecturer at any opportune time in the course of his presentation and the respectable manner in which he was ushered to the dais, before and after the lecture, was too great for me to behold. That was indeed the beginning of my interest in academic culture though I never thought that I could be a lecturer, let alone delivering an inaugural lecture.
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