Antiguako Ama Arrantza Eskola’s new facilities will have a new cycle of secondary education in navigation and inshore fishing, adding to the rest of the educational offerings available.
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The new Ondarroa Fish School, Antiguako Ama Arrantza Eskola, this morning inaugurated its new facilities, located at the headquarters of the old ikastola Txomin Agirre, in the Kamiñazpi district of the municipality. The new school will allow the nautical fishing industry to be promoted in Bizkaia, and especially in the Lea Artibai region.
The school has left the old building in which it has been located since 1949, on San Inazio street, to move into completely renovated facilities adapted to the educational offer.
According to those in charge, it will thus allow the promotion of the nautical fishing sector at a transcendental moment, “without sufficient generation relief to meet demand”, as explained by the director of the center, Bittor San Millán. “All this taking into account that the port of Ondarroa is one of the most important fishing ports on the Cantabrian coast,” he added.
Training also in port
The new fishing school, with 2,500 square meters and an investment of more than 2.5 million euros, will have a new cycle of secondary education in navigation and coastal fishing, which will be added to the rest of the educational offer: secondary education in marine mechanics, the higher level of height pattern and the higher level of machines. In addition, the center will be launching the innovative Ethazi method in the coming months, with which students can work out assignments and projects.
In addition, non-regulated courses will also be part of the educational offer with new professional certificates. In the port of Ondarroa, for example, shallow professional diving courses will be given, aimed at completing the training for sea fishing.
In addition to renovating and home automation of the building, the most advanced simulation technology has been installed, for navigation and fishing, as well as for machines and electrical control. “They are digital devices, like a video game, in which the students can control the electrical systems, the valves… or steer the boat with all the instruments, even make the right maneuvers for fishing, among other things.” explains the director out.
In addition, the school has industrial refrigeration workshops specialized in fishing, benchmarks throughout the region, engine and machine workshops or advanced welding equipment and facilities. “On a ship, the professionals of the different cycles learn everything, which is why they are highly valued both at sea and on land,” explains San Millán. In fact, professional opportunities in the sector are very broad and unemployment is residual. “Students find work in a short time,” says the director.
The Maritime Academy is part of the EBI Elizbarrutiko Ikastetxeak network, depending on the diocese of Bilbao, which also included the Txomin Agirre ikastola, which was closed in 2019 due to the fall in enrollments and the fall in birth rates in the municipality and in the rest of the region.
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