Seafood & Maritime Training

Salmon Husbandry and Production Course

Delivered in Tasmania

Who is the course for?

This course is for participants who are actively employed in the aquaculture industry and is designed primarily for trainees who are enrolled in SFI30119 Certificate III in Aquaculture as it includes assessments both in the classroom and in the workplace.

What will I learn?

This course contains practical and theory in the following: 

  • Working effectively in the aquaculture industry
  • Aquaculture stock handling, production planning
  • Interacting with predators and pests, identifying diseases
  • Biosecurity 
  • Water quality and environmental monitoring
  • Stock holding structures and maintenance 
  • Manipulating stock culture environments and monitoring stock and environmental conditions.

How will I be trained and assessed?

SMT’s training and assessment is very practical and is conducted in a classroom environment and in the workplace, activities include: 

  • Verbal and written assessments* of underpinning knowledge.
  • Workplace observations 
  • Workplace logbook assessment

Things you need to know

Course requirements

To enrol into this course, you must be employed in the aquaculture industry.

There are no formal prerequisites for this course.

How long is the course?

The course is split into 2 parts, Husbandry 2 days and Production 2 days (9am – 5pm).

This provides the trainee and employer to select dates from the schedule that work with operational requirements. All equipment, training, and assessment materials that participants need will be provided by SMT.

Participants must bring their own writing materials.

What sort of credential(s) do I get if I successfully complete the course?

Participants who successfully complete all the written, practical and workplace assessments will receive the following units issued as part of their qualification:

Aquaculture unit’s finfish trainees:

  • SFIAQU205 Monitor water quality
  • SFIAQU207 Monitor stock and environmental conditions
  • SFIAQU211 Maintain stock culture, holding and farm structures
  • SFIAQU302 Construct or install stock culture, holding and farm structures
  • SFIAQU303 Monitor stock handling activities
  • SFIAQU304 Maintain water quality & environmental monitoring
  • SFIAQU310 Apply control measures for predators and pests
  • SFIAQU315 Apply control measures for disease.

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