aquaculture husbandry worker
ISCO: 6221. Skills: 55. Essential: 39.
Essential skills
- assist with vaccination procedures
- biosecurity
- carry out feeding operations
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- clean aquaculture stock units
- collect biological data
- collect broodstock
- collect dead fish
- collect fish samples for diagnosis
- collect growth rate information
- follow hygienic practices in fishery operations
- follow safety precautions in fishery operations
- identity aquaculture species
- load equipment
- maintain aquaculture containers
- maintain aquaculture ponds
- maintain aquaculture water quality
- maintain aquaculture water quality in hatcheries
- manure aquaculture ponds
- measure the impact of specific aquaculture activity
- measure water flow
- monitor fish health status
- monitor larval growth
- monitor water quality
- operate biological filtration
- operate fish capture equipment
- operate forklift
- perform fish grading operations
- prepare fish holding units
- rope manipulation
- screen live fish deformities
- stock fish
- transport fish
- unload equipment
- use aquaculture heavy equipment
- use oxygenation equipment
- use water disinfection equipment
- work in shifts
Supporting skills
- communicate by telephone
- communicate in an outdoor setting
- communicate verbal instructions
- extinguish fires
- incidents and accidents recording
- maintain diving equipment
- monitor fish mortality rates
- operation of transport equipment
- report harvested fish production
- report pollution incidents
- report to the team leader
- undertake continuous professional development in fishery operations
- use communication devices
- work in a fishery team
- work in inclement conditions
- work in outdoor conditions