Seafood Training Package
The Seafood (SFI04) training package has 27 qualifications
at Certificate I to IV and diploma levels, covering
aquaculture, compliance, charter operations, fishing,
processing and sales and distribution.
Industry sectors
- Fishing
- Aquaculture
- Seafood processing and seafood sales and distribution
- Fisheries compliance
The seafood industry training package 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 work in the industry
have been captured in competency standards for the
four sectors of the seafood industry:
- Fishing sector: includes work undertaken by deckhands,
fishers, skippers of fishing vessels, managers
of fishing operations, business managers, divers
and fishing charter operators.
- Aquaculture sector: includes work undertaken
by field hands, leading hands, technicians, supervisors,
quality assurance officers, operations managers
and aquaculture business managers. The sector
covers temperate and tropical operations and
includes pearling and crocodile farms and land-based,
water-based and hatchery operations.
- Seafood processing and seafood sales and distribution
sector: includes work undertaken by basic and
skilled process workers, leading hands, distributors,
seafood retailers and wholesalers, supervisors,
managers and seafood importers and exporters.
- Fisheries compliance sector: includes work undertaken
by fisheries compliance officers, supervisors,
managers and compliance support officers in indigenous
Australian communities.
Current Reviews
Rationalisation of Seafood Industry Training Package (SFI04)
Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Project
National Aquaculture Council
The National Aquaculture Council has provided access to fact sheets about the Australian aquaculture industry. They contain specific details about salmonid, oyster, tuna, native finfish and prawn aquaculture operations. The council also provides a detailed list of all seafood education and training providers.
The council says advanced aquaculture technologies must be supported by a highly skilled and flexible workforce. Any actions that improve the skills base and flexibility of an aquaculture workforce and convert its intellectual capital into a highly competitive product or service will directly improve the industry's competitiveness.
Training and education providers
Click here to view the pdf brochure containing fact sheets on the following:
Native Finfish
Oysters
Pearls
Prawns
Primary School Aquaculture
Salmon
Tuna
What is Aquaculture?
National Training Information Service
The certificate courses, diplomas and advanced diplomas
listed below are linked to the website of the National
Training Information Service.
The link provides further details of the certificate
courses. It will also give you information about
the registered training organisations which deliver
the training and qualifications.
Aquaculture
Fisheries compliance
Fishing charter operations
Fishing operations
Seafood processing
Seafood sales and distribution
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