Projects in Fraserburgh, Shetland, Portavogie and Grimsby are all set to benefit from the latest round of funding under the UK Seafood Fund Skills and Training Scheme initiative. The government confirmed on 17 October that £3.8m had been awarded to…
A training course designed to encourage and enable a new generation of young fishermen in the Clyde is celebrating the success of its four most recent graduates. The course, run by the Clyde Fishermen’s Trust (CFT) working in partnership with…
‘Easy-to-understand’ video launched ‘to support compliance’ A new video instructing Irish skippers on the correct use of electronic logbooks as part of the landing obligation has been criticised by the Irish South and West Fish Producers’ Organisation (IS&WFPO). The video,…
Defra confirmed last week a new round of funding awards from the UK Seafood Fund to support training initiatives in four institutions in England, from new deckie learners through to degrees for seafood processing managers. The successful completion of new…
Andy Read reports on training innovations at the Scottish Maritime Academy I visited the Scottish Maritime Academy in Peterhead last month whilst one of the ‘hybrid’ sessions for the Class II ticket was taking place. Linda Hope, manager of the…
A council-supported training scheme in Hull for the young and unemployed, aimed at providing an insight into a career at sea, is achieving a high success rate, reports Paul Scott. The Maritime Futures accredited course, aimed at 16- to 25-year-olds…
Set up in 2002, for what was then a three-year fishing apprenticeship, Whitby Fishing School continues to buck the negative trend in the industry, helping send out a new generation of qualified trainees each year, reports Andy Read. Fishing News…
Seafood Scotland confirmed at the end of December that it had been awarded £100,000 from the National Transition Training Fund and Skills Development Scotland to support onshore activities of seafood businesses across the country, training and upskilling employees to support…
A programme of training courses has restarted to make fishermen more aware of the perils of man overboard incidents. Falling overboard is the biggest single cause of workplace fatalities in the industry. To help combat this, the RNLI and Seafish,…
Marine insurance specialist Sunderland Marine has been creating easy and approachable ways to communicate the importance of safety on fishing vessels. Rachael Harper spoke to marine underwriting manager Craig McBurnie and loss prevention executive Alvin Forster (pictured above, right, with…
