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Fisheries
If you love fishing and want to make a career out of it, you
will find our reservoirs and lakes, stocked with bream, carp,
perch, pike, roach, rudd, tench, catfish and trout, an excellent
natural learning resource.
You will benefit from the fantastic number of
partnerships and contacts the College has with other businesses and
companies in the fisheries industry. We regularly undertake work
for Local Authorities, Nash Resorts, Clearwater Leisure, the
Environment Agency, and Linear Fisheries and you could be yet
another one of our students who goes to work in France, whether it
be for revetment and enhancement of fishing complexes or
marshalling the World Classic Carp competition, or to Romania where
students have worked on sturgeon farms. If you are a National
Diploma student, you will undertake industry placements in seven
week blocks. Local, national, or even international – the choice is
yours, as past students have gone as far afield as mainland Europe
and the USA.
There are options to continue to higher
education in this sector, but students often go on to work as
fisheries managers, aquatic retailers, technical assistants,
supervisory water bailiffs or fisheries inspectors in the water
industry, or similar positions in commercially run fisheries. There
are also leisure sectors, like sport fisheries management and
aquatics, which present opportunities for willing and dedicated
individuals who have the necessary fish husbandry skills, as well
as excellent knowledge of habitat and fish stock management.