Seafood Industry Training Package
The Seafood Industry Training Package covers industry sectors including:
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The current Seafood Training Package, SFI11, was endorsed by the National Quality Council (NQC) in June 2011. The SFI11 Training Package was published on the Training.gov.au website on 22 July 2011.
Endorsed Materials
- Case for Endorsement
- Training Package Details
- Mapping
- Qualifications
- Units of Competency
- Assessment Guidelines
Superseded Material
NTIS is now offline and material for superseded Training Packages is not available on its replacement, TGA. Please follow the link below for superseded material related to the SFI11 Training Package.
Seafood Industry Continuous Improvement Projects
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AgriFood Skills Australia continues to work with industry to simplify the structure and increase the level of flexibility within AgriFood Training Packages, to respond to the evolving nature of job roles within the industry.
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Background Information
The first Seafood Industry Training Package (SITP) was endorsed in 2000 and since then has been the basis of vocational education and training for the seafood industry in Australia. The Training Package was the first to be developed for the seafood industry and represented the culmination of an extensive consultation and documentation process covering a diverse and dispersed range of industries.
SITP underwent a minor review in 2002 and a major review in 2003. The previous version of the Seafood Industry Training Package, Version 2, was endorsed in 2004.
SITP incorporates all commercial activities conducted in or from Australia concerned with harvesting, farming, culturing, processing, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish and seafood and/or fish and seafood products. The skills and knowledge required to undertake work in the industry have been captured in competency standards for the four sectors of the seafood industry.
The Seafood Industry Training Package covers all levels of work, ranging from the inexperienced new entrants to the industry, through to skilled operators, supervisors and managers. In 2005, Qualifications in environmental management for the seafood industry were added to SFI04 in response to the heightened importance of environmental management across all seafood industry sectors as well as the demand for specialist skills and knowledge to support its implementation.
The first version of SITP contained twenty-one Qualifications. SFI04 Version 1 contained twenty-seven Qualifications. SFI04 Version 2 now has twenty-nine Qualifications. The diversity of skills within the seafood industry is reflected in the range of Qualifications offered by the Training Package. With SFI04 Version 1 came an increase in the number of Qualifications in the Fishing Operations stream; an increase that will facilitate the gaining of regulatory licenses as well as vocational Qualifications. In response to an identified need for a fisheries compliance support role within Indigenous Australian communities and lands, an additional Qualification was added to the Fisheries Compliance stream at Certificate II level. With the release of SFI04 Version 2, two specialist Qualifications in environmental management were added.
A Phase 1 review of the SFI04 Seafood Industry Training Package was completed in 2006 but the Phase 2 review was interrupted soon after, due to circumstances beyond the control of AgriFood Skills Australia. The current review was informed by the 2006 Phase 1 recommendations and further consultative stages with industry and other stakeholders.
The SFI04 Seafood Industry Training Package review commenced in June 2009 and concluded in November 2009 with consultation meetings to confirm acceptance of findings. The most significant change to be considered was a response to the removal of pathways that allowed maritime regulatory certifications to be achieved along with selected aquaculture and fishing Qualifications. This was a consequence of the embedding of the maritime regulatory certifications in the TDM07 Maritime Training Package. Aquaculture and fisheries compliance sector representatives indicated their interest in formally reviewing Qualification packaging rules and competency standards against industry requirements.
As seven years have lapsed since the SFI04 Seafood Industry Training Package was last reviewed, there was a requirement to update units for compliance, and changed work roles.