aquaculture hatchery technician
ISCO: 6221. Skills: 46. Essential: 29.
Essential skills
- animal welfare legislation
- aquaculture reproduction
- carry out feeding operations
- carry out hatchery production processes
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- carry out waste water treatment
- collect broodstock
- condition broodstock
- cultivate plankton
- enforce sanitation procedures
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- fish biology
- green water incubation technology
- induce spawning and fertilisation on aquaculture species
- interpret scientific data to assess water quality
- maintain hatchery records
- maintain the production of juveniles at the nursery stage
- manage animal biosecurity
- manage capture broodstock operations
- monitor feeding systems
- monitor fish health status
- monitor hatchery production
- monitor larval growth
- monitor water quality
- operate hatchery recirculation system
- plankton production
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- sanitation measures for aquaculture hatchery production
- screen live fish deformities
Supporting skills
- communicate verbal instructions
- cost management
- create solutions to problems
- environmental legislation
- feed broodstock
- fish anatomy
- fishing industry
- genetic selection programme
- grade young fish
- lead a team
- make time-critical decisions
- use aquacultural heating equipment
- use oxygenation equipment
- use water disinfection equipment
- work in inclement conditions
- work in outdoor conditions
- write work-related reports