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SFI50119 Diploma of Aquaculture

  • Diploma

This course provides practical skills and knowledge for managing fish farms, marine farms, and hatcheries, including breeding strategies, sustainable practices, and stock health management. It offers hands-on training with access to salt and freshwater aquaculture facilities.

Key details

Degree Type
Diploma
Duration
2 - 2 semesters full-time
Course Code
BEJ2, 100601
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$13,140 per year / $13,140 total

About this course

Why choose this course?

Turn the ocean into your office with a career in the aquaculture industry. This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to manage the operations of fish farms, marine farms and hatcheries. You will learn skills in developing and implementing a breeding strategy, planning ecologically sustainable practices, biosecurity, managing stock health, developing a stock production plan, managing staff and business operations and developing marketing strategies that comply with government regulations and restrictions.

Our campuses have extensive salt and freshwater aquaculture facilities that will enable you to acquire practical, hands on training that relates directly to the aquaculture industry.

Entry requirements

  • An IELTS score (academic) of 6.0 with no band score less than 5.0 or equivalent.
  • Completion of SFI30119 Certificate III in Aquaculture is required for entry into this course.

Study locations

Fremantle

What you will learn

Turn the ocean into your office with a career in the aquaculture industry. This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to manage the operations of fish farms, marine farms and hatcheries. You will learn skills in developing and implementing a breeding strategy, planning ecologically sustainable practices, biosecurity, managing stock health, developing a stock production plan, managing staff and business operations and developing marketing strategies that comply with government regulations and restrictions.

Our campuses have extensive salt and freshwater aquaculture facilities that will enable you to acquire practical, hands on training that relates directly to the aquaculture industry.

Career pathways

  • Hatchery Manager
  • Hatchery Technician

Course structure

Core units
  • SFIAQU504Plan and implement environmentally sustainable aquacultural practices
  • SFIBIO501Plan and implement an aquaculture biosecurity plan
Elective units
  • AHCWRK502Collect and manage data
  • BSBLDR522Manage people performance
  • SFIAQU404Operate hatchery
  • SFIAQU410Implement a program to operate, maintain or upgrade a recirculating aquaculture system
  • SFIAQU501Develop a stock nutrition program
  • SFIAQU502Develop and implement an aquaculture breeding strategy
  • SFIAQU505Plan stock health management
  • SFIAQU506Manage an aquaculture research trial
  • SFIAQU508Plan and design stock culture or holding systems and structures
  • SFIAQU509Develop stock production plan

Credit for prior study or work

Students who enrol into this qualification will be eligible for credit transfer of the units that they have already achieved. Fees paid by international students are set on a commercial basis and are paid as a whole of course fee - no refund will apply to credit transfers. Please refer to your letter of Offer for detailed duration and costings for your enrolment

How to apply

How to apply

Apply to study at TAFE in six steps :

  1. find a course;
  2. check entry requirements;
  3. submit an application;
  4. accept your offer and pay;
  5. apply for your student visa; and
  6. receive your visa and come to Australia for your studies.

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