Seafood business apprenticeships
This page has information on:
- What are apprenticeships and how do they work?
- How can apprenticeships support your business?
- Find out about fish frier apprenticeships
- Find out about fishmonger apprenticeships
- Find out about apprenticeships for fish processors and seafood manufacturers
- Find out about fishing apprenticeships
- Find out about aquaculture apprenticeships
Apprenticeships combine practical on the job training with additional study. An apprentice is employed by a business and is paid while they gain experience and knowledge, important to their job role and chosen apprenticeship.
We work together with organisations that offer apprenticeships across the UK for the seafood industry. There are many different options available, depending on where you are based.
You can find out more about the different types of apprenticeships available in each sector by following the links below.
Funding for apprenticeships also varies across the UK so you should contact a local apprenticeship provider to confirm what rules are in place in your area.
You can find contact details for some apprenticeship providers further down this page.
Apprenticeships can:
- Support staff development so that employees gain important skills and knowledge
- Be directly relevant to the operations in your business
- Help to boost productivity and quality of output
- Attract new talent
- Lead to more applications when advertising job roles
- Be taken by existing staff as well as new recruits.
A variety of apprenticeships are available to help businesses in the fish and chip industry ensure that their staff have the knowledge and skills to become excellent fish friers.
Fish frying businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have some fish frying and cooked food/food service content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeships are standards-based production chef apprenticeships available at Levels 2 and 3.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales
Coleg Cambria, contact their Employer Engagement team on 0300 3030006 or employers@cambria.ac.uk (North Wales fish friers only)
Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
The various Regional Colleges may be able to support apprenticeships in the seafood industry.
England
HIT Training – contact 0800 093 5892 or info@hittraining.co.uk
Case studies and videos about fish and chip apprentices can be accessed on the following links below:
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Apprentices are catch of the day for Plymouth fish and chip shop
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Frying high with apprentice Hollie Hutton
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Yorkshire fish and chip chain puts apprenticeships on the menu
A variety of apprenticeships are available to help businesses in the seafood retail and wholesale industry ensure that their staff have the knowledge and skills to become excellent fishmongers.
Seafood businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have a significant fishmonger content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeship is a standards-based retail fishmonger apprenticeship at Level 2. The Standard is being revised to include wholesale fishmongering and this will be available later in 2024.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales
Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
The various Regional Colleges may be able to support apprenticeships in the seafood industry.
England
There are several providers of fishmonger apprenticeships. Those supporting independent fishmongers include City of London Corporation and Benson-Smith Ltd.
Fish and shellfish processors businesses can access Level 2 and Level 3 fish and shellfish industry framework based apprenticeships in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. These frameworks have a significant processing and manufacturing content to draw from.
In England the available apprenticeship is a standards-based food and drink process operator apprenticeship at Level 2.
Scotland
Polaris Learning - contact Helen Rush on 07780 772508 or helen@polaris-learning.com
Wales
Cambrian Training – contact Mark Llewellyn on 01938 555893 or email mark@cambriantraining.com
Northern Ireland
The various Regional Colleges may be able to support apprenticeships in the seafood industry.
England
In England there's a number of food and drink apprenticeships that are suitable for different roles in seafood businesses. We are working with several apprenticeship training providers to make these standards-based apprenticeships available across most of England. Grimsby Institute is one such provider.
For further guidance on an appropriate apprenticeship provider please contact onshore@seafish.co.uk
In England there is a fishing apprenticeship available. For information visit the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education website using the link below or view this Seafish webpage on New Entrant training.
Aquaculture apprenticeships are currently being revised for Scotland by Lantra.
Contact for further information
For further information and advice on apprenticeships, please contact us using the details below.
For enquiries about fish frier, fishmonger or seafood processing apprenticeships, contact our Onshore Training team, email onshore@seafish.co.uk
For enquiries about aquaculture apprenticeships contact our Onshore Training team, email onshore@seafish.co.uk
For enquiries about fishing apprenticeships, contact our Seagoing Training team, email training@seafish.co.uk