The Spanish tuna fleet faces the hiring of 300 medium and highly qualified professionals in the next five years

The Spanish tuna fleet, grouped in the Organization of Associated Producers of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (OPAGAC), will face the hiring of 300 medium and high qualified professionals over the next five years.

To this end, this fleet, characterized by being at the forefront in the fishing sector both from an operational point of view and in terms of socio-labor conditions, has developed its own digital labor intermediation platform and will inform about the professional development opportunities it offers in training centers. training.

With this program, called “empleAtún”, the fleet wants to incorporate new talent into its activity capable of contributing to the modernization process in which it is immersed, as well as facing the generational change of its commands. In this regard, it should be noted that the fleet comprises 2,400 professionals, of whom it must replace 12.5% who hold positions with a medium-high qualification, a segment whose average age is between 42 and 50 years. Its offer will focus on captains, skippers, bridge officers, chiefs and engineering officers, electricians and boiler and oiling professionals.

The strategy to develop this process contemplates two lines of action. The first is the launch of the aforementioned digital labor intermediation platform developed specifically for the tuna fleet. Its objective is to make available to shipping companies and job seekers a professional tool that allows them to modernize selection and hiring methods.

For its part, the second line of action is an information campaign on the professional development possibilities offered by this fleet, aimed at students of training specialties directly linked to the occupations required by a tuna vessel, as well as Basic Vocational Training and last level of secondary education, in the process of defining their professional future.

OPAGAC plans to carry out 90 information sessions over the next year and a half, mainly in Galicia and the Basque Country, communities in which this fleet is rooted in our country. Likewise, it plans to expand the campaign to Asturias, Cantabria and Andalusia with the aim of reaching a total of 1,800 participants.

This campaign started last September in Galicia with a visit to the Nautical Fishing School and the Joham Carballeira Vocational Training Center in Bueu and the Coia Integrated Vocational Training Center in Vigo. Information sessions are currently being held in the Basque Country, specifically at the Blas de Lezo LHII Integrated Vocational Training Center in Pasaia, the La Salla Vocational Training Center in Irún and the Bermeo Nautical School, and in Asturias at the Center Integrated Professional Training of the Sea in Gijón.

According to Julio Morón, managing director of OPAGAC, “the Spanish tuna fleet is a benchmark in the global fishing sector for being at the forefront on different fronts, such as sustainability, operational excellence or our strategy of offering socio-labor conditions, In my opinion, unique in the world of fishing.

For this reason, adds Morón, we have a very promising future ahead of us and we seek to incorporate new generations of talent who want to be part of it and help build it.”

It is worth remembering that the working conditions and safety at work of the tuna fleet are certified based on the Responsible Fishing Tuna standard and aligned with the requirements established in Convention 188 of the International Labor Organization (contract, salary, recognition and medical care, rest hours, repatriation, prevention of occupational risks, etc.).

Furthermore, in its modernization process to improve the well-being and safety on board of its crews, OPAGAC has just completed testing of a telemedicine system that has been shown to improve the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions on board.

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