Fisheries & Aquatic Science-City & Guilds Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma

This two-year Level 3 programme is designed to help you develop as an individual and prepare you for progression into national and international employment within the sector. You may also qualify for higher education at university using the UCAS points you achieve.

Plumpton College has excellent facilities across its large estate within the South Downs National Park. You can look forward to a balanced mix of practical and theoretical learning. Our facilities include an aquaculture production business (fish farm) and a college coarse fishery. You’ll also benefit from trips and visits where you’ll learn surveying and capture techniques, including seine netting and electrofishing.

You’ll study units designed to develop your skills, including:

• Principles of physical and biological environmental processes
• Population surveys, ecology and conservation
• Stillwater fishery creation
• Warm-water and marine aquaculture
• Fisheries and habitat management
• Fish health
• Fish biology
• Water quality
• Aquatic ecosystems
• Estate skills
• Machinery operations
• Coarse, game and sea angling.

This unit develops the practical and theoretical skills needed to participate in and conduct different angling techniques and styles. You’ll also learn through our industry partnerships with Nash Tackle and the exclusive Carp Syndicate, gaining experience fishing alongside Nash team members at the annual Plumpton College Carp School.

• River fishery creation
• Specialist projects
• Cyprinid fish farming

4 GCSEs at Grade 4 and above to include English and Maths OR a Level 2 in a related subject plus English and Maths, at least grade 4