Seventeen year old Cameron MacDonald from Stornoway has
beaten off stiff competition to become one of the first apprentices in a new
scheme run by Scotland’s largest aquaculture company.
Cameron will work at a number of different Marine Harvest
salmon farms across the Western Isles in his first three months. His training
will encompass a wide range of skills including boat handling, fish health,
feed management and finance.
Managing Director of Marine Harvest Scotland Alan Sutherland
welcomed him to the company saying: “We’re delighted to give Cameron the chance
to learn all about salmon farming – an industry which provides jobs in some of
the most fragile rural economies in Scotland. All too often young people in
these areas are forced to move away to get work so we’re delighted to be giving
them a chance to remain through this apprenticeship scheme.
“This is a great opportunity to develop a career in a
successful and thriving industry. The image of fish farming as an unskilled
labouring job is very out-dated – today’s fish farmers are highly skilled and
Cameron and our other apprentice will gain both skills and qualifications that
are greatly in demand both here and across the world.”
Cameron said: “I’m really looking forward to the challenge
and I’m delighted I can learn skills in an industry which has such a strong
base in the Western Isles and which will allow me to remain here.”
Aquaculture is one of Scotland’s newer industries, developed
in the 1970s in the Western Highlands. But as the early pioneers reach
retirement age, Marine Harvest Scotland is keen to train a new generation of
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