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From the start of next year, those wanting to enter the fishing industry will be able to do so as part of an apprenticeship.
The move means new recruits will be eligible for the government's one-point-six-billion-dollar trades training fund that makes apprenticeships free and offers financial support to employers willing to take them on.
Sealord's chief executive, Doug Paulin, told fisheries reporter Conan Young, the new apprenticeships will go a long way to helping the industry transition away from using foreign crews.
Paulin says in the short term the industry will still be reliant on bringing in foreign fishing crews, with the next group of roughly 200 due to arrive in the country early in the new year.