Private Training Establishment
Westport Deep Sea Fishing SchoolLevel of Study
Certificate
This qualification is designed to recognise the skills and knowledge of employees or potential employees in the seafood industry.
The Core Compulsory section includes standards that cover describing seafood spoilage factors and their controls, maintaining personal hygiene and using hygienic work practices while working with seafood, describing and using safe work practices in the seafood industry, and demonstrating knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements.
The Core Elective section allows candidates to choose between standards that cover handling seafood product and handling bivalve molluscan shellfish product.
The Basic Processing Skills Strand allows candidates to choose from a selection of standards in the Seafood Processing domain and a wider selection from anywhere on the DAS.
The Intermediate Processing Skills Strand allows candidates to choose from a selection of standards at a more advanced level from the Seafood Generic and Seafood Processing domains and a wider selection from anywhere on the DAS.
This qualification, and the National Certificate in Aquaculture (Level 3) [Ref: 1620], builds on the skills and knowledge covered in the National Certificate in Seafood Processing (Level 2) [Ref: 0563].
This qualification leads to the National Certificate in Seafood Processing (Advanced Processing Skills) [Ref: 1622].
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