Fisheries
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Seafood processing worker
Seafood processors prepare and package fish, shellfish, and other seafood, ready for sale or supply. They clean, scale and fillet seafood as required. Once the seafood has been cleaned and prepared, seafood processors must pack it for transport or sale. These workers may also be responsible for sorting seafood to determine its quality.
Average yearly salary
- 20,000-30,000 Euro
Work Schedule
- 40h / week
- Full time
- May require shift work
What you’ll do
- Seafood processors prepare and package fish, shellfish, and other seafood, ready for sale or supply. They clean, scale and fillet seafood as required. In some cases, they also remove the meat from shellfish such as mussels, oysters and prawns, trimming them to meet required specifications. Once the seafood has been cleaned and prepared, seafood processors must pack it for transport or sale, which may involve freezing and/or using machinery to package some products in airtight bags and other wrappings. These workers may also be responsible for sorting seafood to determine its quality, which will affect its price and use.
- plan, organize and supervise aquaculture and fisheries production activities,
- coordinating the resources available to achieve the required quality of the product and
- complying with the applicable regulations.
Education, training, and qualification
- Food Handling Certificate
- Intermediate VET in Aquaculture Crops
- Intermediate VET in Preparation of Food Products
- Higher VET in in Processes and Quality in the Food Industry
- Higher VET in Aquaculture
- As an apprentice or trainee, you enter into a formal training contract with an employer, enabling you to complete training towards a nationally recognised qualification. You spend time working and learning practical skills on the job and you spend some time undertaking structured training with a registered training provider.
Experience
You can work as a Seafood Process Worker without formal qualifications. Some on the job training may be provided. A certificate in food processing might be helpful. Useful experience for meat/seafood process workers includes any factory work, farming, fishing or aquaculture work, butchery work and work handling or preparing food. Personal Qualities and Skills
- proficient in Processing Equipment, Gut, and Raw Materials.
- Soft skills such as Dexterity
- Physical strength
- Ability to use technology.
Career path and progression
Seafood process workers may move into factory supervisor positions or production manager roles. Those working in seafood processing at sea may also move into deckhand or other crew positions. Seafoo process workers may specialize in different stages of processing, such as grading animals, or grading certain species of fish or shellfish. Where could you work
A Sea food processing worker can work in different places such as any food processing factory, farming, fishing or aquaculture, butcheries and handling or preparing food. The seafood industry in general is highly seasonal, with many types of seafood only permitted to be caught during certain months, which may have an impact on the availability of work at certain times of the year.