Industry Courses
The Seafood Training Centre North Shields which is managed by Anglo Scottish Seafish Training offers a number of courses designed for everyone working in the seafood industry, from fishermen to fishmongers, processors to fish fryers - including all those wanting to work in the fishing industry, whether they are fishing or waiting on, processing or serving.
We hold these courses in our purpose-built premises. We are always interested in extending our range of courses, so please let us know if there is an additional area you would like us to cover. We already run courses which cover Edinburgh to Hartlepool and most of our courses can be run in your area, this applies to Fishermen Processors and Cafe/Restaurant /Take aways.
Current courses include:- Fish Filleting
- Fish Mongering
- Fork Lift truck
- Manual Handling
- Basic Hygiene
- Basic Health and Safety
- Taster training for new entry fishermen
- Skippers course for catching sector
- Basic sea survival
- Basic fire fighting
- Basic First Aid
- Basic and intermediate Stability Course
- Two and five day Bridge watchkeeping
- Two day Engineering course
- Safety awareness
- Seafood preparation course
- Unusual species course
- School Visits
- GMDS Radio Courses
- Knife skills
- Fish recognition
An opportunity exists for a limited number of candidates to complete the inshore Skippers ticket (6.5 metres & below). This is free of charge to the first 30 candidates who come forward as soo as possible.

