Boosting training in fisheries
Fishing and processing company Brim and the Icelandic College of Fisheries have signed a co-operation agreement aimed at raising levels of training within the industry. The specific aims are to…
Training for sustainable aquaculture practice
A collaboration between the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), Tunisia’s Ministry of Agriculture and local communities and farmers aims to provide training in sustainable aquaculture practices for young…
Seafood Scotland to support industry with new funded training programme
The award of £100,000 of funding from the National Transition Training Fund and Skills Development Scotland to Seafood Scotland will go to supporting onshore activities of seafood businesses Scotland. Delivered…
Fishing company Nueva Pescanova is supporting fishing industry training in Mozambique. Image: Nueva Pescanova
Nueva Pescanova launches fisheries training in Mozambique
Spanish fisheries group Nueva Pescanova is instrumental in establishing a training programme aimed at improve the employability of young people in Mozambique, working with the Matola Fisheries School and the…
Main image: A student uses the new equipment to track down a leak in a refrigeration system. Image: Hafliði Hinriksson
Refrigeration technology donated to college
Fishing company Síldarvinnslan has made a donation of equipment to local technical college Verkmenntaskóli Austurlands to support training in refrigeration technology. The package of includes equipment to identify leaks, a…
Small-scale fishing accounts for 60% of seagoing jobs in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions
University dedicated to small-scale fishing
The General Fisheries Council of the Mediterranean (GFCM) is launching a university devoted to small-scale fisheries. The SSF University will offer workshops and training courses to small-scale fishing people and…
The eighth and last workshop in first round, for the Eastern Pacific Ocean, in the United States in 2018. Image: WWF
Fisheries experts, managers and industry representatives get sustainability training
As a migratory fish species, tuna can travel thousands of miles between countries and across the open ocean, straddling both the exclusive economic zones as well as the areas beyond…
Boulogne training body CFPMT delivers 70,000 hours of seafood skills training to more than a thousand candidates every year
Maintaining key industry skills
Until a few years ago the CFPMT training centre in Boulogne-sur-Mer was dedicated solely to the local seafood industry’s needs, when its remit was extended to other areas of the…