HACenter-FullColor-WithTagline-3000-2Exploring aquaculture careers
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Exploring Aquaculture Careers

Washington County Community College

The objective of this course is to raise awareness of careers within aquaculture, and pathways towards these careers. Students will visit a range of aquaculture operations and become familiar with different roles and responsibilities. This may include visiting shellfish, algae and fin fish hatcheries, land-based recirculating aquaculture operations, marine-based fin fish and shellfish operations, processing facilities, research facilities. We will meet with people in a range of careers abroad including farming/production, biotechnology, processing, distribution and transport, gear/equipment manufacturing, veterinarians and aquatic animal health, feed production, entrepreneurship, sales, advocacy, education, policy and regulation, research, engineering, food science, and more.  The course consists of daily field trips to industry locations. 

 

Field trips to aquaculture businesses.  Transportation provided from Washington County Community College Campus. 

SCHEDULE

This is a one-week program.

 

Start date:  July 7

Monday - Friday : 9:00 AM to 4 PM - field trips

Sunday - Thursday : 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM - campus activities

 

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The Harold Alfond Center for the Advancement of Maine’s Workforce coordinates all short-term workforce training programs for Maine’s community colleges, working closely with business and industry leaders statewide. Launched in 2021, the Alfond Center served over 26,000 Mainers in thirty months. A new, historic gift of $75.5 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation in June 2024 will enable the Center to train an additional 70,505 Mainers by 2030, significantly impacting Maine’s workforce and economy through strategic private and public partnerships.