Fleming College Offering New Aquaculture Students Free Training

Fleming College is offering free training to new aquaculture students in a nationwide initiative to upskill Canada’s workforce, announced on Tuesday.

Photo courtesy of FLeming College.

Through an agreement with the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University in Newfoundland, Fleming College is covering the cost of the first-semester tuition fee (including ancillary fees) for 20 Aquaculture Foundations students. This funding is available for the January 2024 intake.

The compressed first semester begins Jan. 2 to March 29 with no mid-semester reading break.

Fleming’s program focuses on fish culture, aquaculture techniques and fish husbandry, with a unique focus on Indigenous studies and practices in the aquaculture industry.

This initiative is part of the Growing the Canadian Aquaculture Workforce of the Future program, sponsored by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council, administered through the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University according to Fleming,

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