This programme introduces learners to the fundamental principles of basic seafood tasks, covering key entry level skills and knowledge required by the seafood industry. 

Graduates will be capable of carrying out the various entry level routine tasks across the seafood industry sectors. 

Employers of learners can customise the skills and knowledge to meet their organisational needs – this is known as a Limited Credit Package (LCP) version of this programme. Covering all the fundamental skills, LCPs are great taster courses for entry level employees providing a pathway towards a full New Zealand Certificate.

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This programme is suitable for people working in seafood outlets, including wholesalers, fish & chip shops and supermarket fish bars. Learners gain knowledge around storage, displaying and monitoring displayed seafood. 

Skill areas covered include correct cleaning of display cases, procedures around weighing & pricing. Labelling is an important aspect at point of sale, and this area is covered, as well as hygienic practices. 

Employers of learners can customise the skills and knowledge to meet their organisational needs – this is known as a Limited Credit Package (LCP) version of this programme. Covering all the fundamental skills, LCPs are great taster courses for entry level employees providing a pathway towards a full New Zealand Certificate.

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Effective businesses are built on strong teams. With this course your employees will learn the essential fundamentals of team leadership, from inspiring team performance to understanding leadership styles.

Key focus areas include implementing and monitoring staff work routines, legislative compliance and implementing and monitoring fish and fish product processing operations and quality control processes. 

With two contexts covering production and quality control/assurance operations, this programme is for people employed in the seafood industry, who wish to work as experienced senior operators involved with fish and fish product processing, in a seafood processing operation, on land or at sea.

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This new apprenticeship programme includes level three and level four New Zealand Certificate programmes, and is suitable for experienced operators involved with fish and fish product processing, in a seafood processing operation, on land, or at sea. 

The level three programme contains a Point of Sale context within the Fish and Fish Products Strand. The Production context is suitable for specialist operators, senior operators, or production supervisors, who are on land or at sea carrying out processing activities. The Quality Control/Quality Assurance context is suitable for production quality controllers, or quality assurance roles, who are carrying out processing on land or at sea. 

Training plan unit selection for apprenticeship programmes is set in conjunction with the employer and learner – for more information on the unit content within our NZA programmes, "Get in touch" below and a seafood representative will contact you soon.