Commercial Fishing Safety Training

Currently in its fifth year, this project is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), helps to fund AMSEA’s train-the-trainer and commercial fishing vessel safety classes. The project continues to expand the network of port-based fishing safety instructors around the United States by providing fishermen with qualified fishing safety instructors from the fishing industry, who know the local area and local fishery risks.

The training assists them in meeting training requirements and reduces the number and rate of commercial fishing fatalities. Central to these training efforts is the emphasis on performance-based, hands-on training. The training delivered under this program provides much needed emergency skills to thousands of fishermen in scores of fishing ports around the U.S.