Intersted In A Career In Aquaculture.

[RPL]

Im interested in a career in aquaculture, mainly fish farming.

I was wondering if anyone has/had experience in this field and what should i expect, now i have looked for places where i can study and it seems that if i were to study i would have to move North to Townsville or South to Tasmania as im located in Sydney this wouldn't be ideal but if i have to i will, so my question is does anyone have any hints or tips in how i can hopefully break into the industry?

I have done some reading and there are Oyster farms at Towra point and i hear that there are fish farms there aswell but im yet to read about them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited January 3, 2008 by RPL

[tryhard]

RPL,

Whilst I cant help you directly, have you contacted Dept of Primary Industries - they would probably be the 1st place I'd ask.

Good luck - I hope your successful, I reckon theres got to be a serious future in it.

[arpie]

Hi RPL

What a terrific area to work in, if you can. If I was starting out again ...... I wouldn't have ended up in Accounts Payable again, that is for sure!

Dave Wilson (fellow Fishraider member) is into aquaculture in NT. He has written about it a bit towards the bottom of this post (he even has a fish officially ... so to speak... named after him!)

http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.ph...194&hl=noel

Give him a yahoo & I reckon he'd be able to point you in the right direction re getting qualified etc.

Good luck

Roberta

[coastspinna]

hey RPL,

i have been looking into the same sorta field,

maybe have a look at southern cross uni at lismore,

or tafensw runs a Cert 4 in aquaculture up that way too..

little less far than tassie

i am thinking of doing a degree in environmental science up there next feb.

i've got the links somewhere if you need em pm me

cheers

ian

[huntman]

I'm currently studying at southern cross doing marine science, and it is a pretty decent uni. I believe UNE also has some courses available that are similar, but for my course we pretty much spend most of our time at the NMSC at coffs harbour. There are a few Sydney universities that do marine degrees as well, but certainly some of my classmates are hoping to get into aquaculture. PM me if you have questions.