Mark Oliver is an aquaculture trainer at the Cooloola Sunshine Institute of TAFE’s Nambour campus situated on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He has a Diploma of Aquaculture, a Bachelor of Science degree and post-graduate Honours in aquaculture.
Involved in commercial aquaculture for over 10 years, Mark now is part of the aquaculture training team at Cooloola Sunshine Institute of TAFE. With a fully functional aquaculture facility on campus, that has both fresh and salt-water capacity, the future of hands on aquaculture training has never looked better in Queensland.
Mark’s role in the aquaculture training team is to run the ever-expanding traineeship program and this is the basis for the presentation. Aquaculture traineeships are highly suited to commercial fin-fish facilities and are a real opportunity for industry to gain quality staff.