Certificate II in Aquaculture - SFI20111
TAFE Western Australia Colleges
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS:
This qualification is part of the Seafood Industry Training Package. It represents the base entry point into this sector of the seafood industry and provides people with a range of core and underpinning skills and knowledge relevant to work as a field hand in the aquaculture sector. Work at this level is usually undertaken under general supervision and follows routine processes and procedures.
Structure
- 15 units: 4 core
- 11 elective
Subjects
- Use business technology
- Apply deckhand skills aboard a fishing vessel
- Deliver a service to customers
- Undertake routine maintenance of water supply and disposal systems and structures
- Receive and distribute product
- Perform breath-hold diving operations
- Operate vehicles
- Transport, handle and store chemicals
- Operate machinery and equipment
- Plan for minimal environmental impact
- Harvest cultured or held stock
- Handle stock
- Interact with customers
- Monitor stock and environmental conditions
- OBSERVE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ON A COASTAL VESSEL
- Work effectively in the seafood industry
- Apply first aid
- Assemble and load refrigerated product
- Control diseases
- Manipulate stock culture environment
- Retail fresh, frozen and live seafood
- Assemble and repair damaged netting
- PROVIDE ELEMENTARY FIRST AID
- Operate a forklift
- Maintain stock culture, holding and other farm structures
- Handle resources and infrastructure materials and safely dispose of non toxic materials
- Operate and maintain high technology water treatment components
- Operate and maintain chainsaws
- Collect broodstock and seedstock
- Process and maintain workplace information
- Treat weeds
- SURVIVE AT SEA IN THE EVENT OF VESSEL ABANDONMENT
- Shuck molluscs
- Lay pipes
- Operate tractors
- Fabricate and repair metal or plastic structures
- SCUBA dive in open water to a maximum depth of 18 metres
- Comply with organisational and legislative requirements
- Follow site quarantine procedures
- Maintain the temperature of seafood
- Process financial transactions and extract interim reports
- Work with knives
- Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
- Use hand and power tools
- Implement the food safety program and procedures
- Operate retail technology
- Clean premises and equipment
- Prepare, pack and dispatch stock for live transport
- Carry out manual excavation
- Load and unload goods/cargo
- Operate a small vessel
- Balance point-of-sale terminal
- FIGHT AND EXTINGUISH FIRES ON BOARD A COASTAL VESSEL
- Operate small plant and equipment
- Operate low powered diesel engines
- Apply basic food handling and safety practices
- Fillet fish and prepare portions
- Clean work area
- TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE INFORMATION BY MARINE RADIO OR TELEPHONE
- Operate and maintain outboard motors
- Plan outdoor recreation activities
- Carry out on-farm post-harvest operations
- Apply point-of-sale handling procedures
- Feed stock
- Perform stock control procedures
- Apply chemicals under supervision
- Maintain, prepare, deploy and retrieve purse seines to land catch
- Carry out basic levelling
- Head and peel crustaceans
- Maintain marine plant
- Apply quality systems and procedures
- Operate a freezing process
- Erect and dismantle temporary fencing and gates
- Produce algal or live-feed cultures
- Provide support for diving operations
- Shift materials safely using manual handling methods
- Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
- Meet workplace OHS requirements
- Control predators and pests
- Use waders
- Prepare, pack and dispatch non-live product
- Clean fish
- Work with crocodiles
- Communicate in the seafood industry
Study pathways
Pathways into the qualificationEntry into this qualification may be:by direct entry and without prior aquaculture skills or knowledgethrough a school vocational studies program combined with work experience.This qualification is suited to Australian Apprenticeship pathways.Pathways from the qualificationAfter achieving this qualification, candidates may undertake a:SFI30111 Certificate III in AquacultureSFI30311 Certificate III in Seafood Industry (Environmental Management Support).Maritime competencies gained through SFI20111 Certificate II In Aquaculture may be counted towards a Coxswain maritime certification.
