Seafish Training
What Courses Do We Offer
- Health and Safety
- Safety Awareness
- Fire Fighting and Fire Prevention
- 2 Day Engineering
- 5 Day Engineering (35 Hour Approved Engine Course)
- 2 Day Navigation
- 5 Day Navigation
- Stability Awareness
- Advanced Stability Awareness
Training Pathways
Initial Certificates Required
When you start work in the commercial fishing industry, you are required to hold certain certification:
- STCW Personal Survival Techniques / Basic Sea Survival
- Must be completed before starting work
- STCW Elementary First Aid / Basic First Aid
- Must be completed within 3 months of starting work
- Seafish Basic Health and Safety
- Must be completed within 3 months of starting work
- Seafish Fire Fighting and Prevention
- Must be completed within 3 months of starting work
Under 16.5m Skippers Ticket
Under 16.5m Skippers Ticket
You can obtain either the unrestricted or the restricted (up to 20 miles) ticket; we offer all the courses here.
The courses you require can be found at Commercial fishing training courses | Seafish
What vessels will I be able to operate?
- With the restricted ticket (up to 20 miles) you can operate a small commercial vessel* up to Area Category 6** waters.
- With the unrestricted (beyond 20 miles) you can operate a small commercial vessel up to Area Category 3*** waters.
*less than 24m; less than 150 ton; carries no more than 12 passengers
** Never more than 3 miles from land/designated departure point; in daylight; in favourable weather
*** Up to 20 miles from a safe haven
MGN 411 (M+F); page 7
Application Forms
MCA Guidance on Safety Awareness
MCA Guidance on Safety Awareness
MSIS27 (Chapter 14, paragraph 14.7.6.3)
Following the discovery that many experienced fishermen who joined the UK fishing industry after the 1 January 2005 have not completed the mandatory Basic Health and Safety Training course, the MCA has decided that:
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- Fishermen who joined a UK fishing vessel for the first time after 1 January 2005 and before 1 June 2014 and did not undertake the Basic Health and Safety, course do not have to complete this course provided that they:
- Have completed the Safety Awareness and Risk Assessment course and
- can demonstrate the date of joining a UK vessel prior to 2014 to the satisfaction of an MCA surveyor.
- Fishermen who joined a UK fishing vessel for the first time after 1 June 2014 and did not undertake the UK Basic Health and Safety course, must complete this course within a time specified by an MCA surveyor. This applies regardless of whether the fishermen holds the Safety Awareness and Risk Assessment course.
- Fishermen who joined a UK fishing vessel for the first time after 1 January 2005 and before 1 June 2014 and did not undertake the Basic Health and Safety, course do not have to complete this course provided that they: