aquaculture cage technician
ISCO: 6221. Skills: 56. Essential: 38.
Essential skills
- apply fish treatments
- assess cage water quality
- carry out feeding operations
- carry out fish disease prevention measures
- carry out maintenance on cage equipment and machinery
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- check diving equipment
- control aquatic production environment
- effect of water currents
- fish biology
- fish grading
- identify common aquatic species diseases
- implement fin fish feeding regimes
- maintain aquaculture cage equipment
- maintain diving equipment
- maintain grading equipment
- manage waste
- measure water flow
- measure water quality parameters
- monitor aquaculture feeding behaviour
- monitor feeding systems
- monitor fish health status
- monitor fish mortality rates
- monitor larval growth
- observe abnormal fish behaviour
- operate small craft
- operation of lifting gears
- perform diving interventions
- perform water chemistry analysis
- perform water treatments
- pests and diseases
- prepare for small craft operation
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- rates of growth assessment
- screen live fish deformities
- supervise cage net systems
- swim
- use water disinfection equipment
Supporting skills
- collect broodstock
- conduct fish mortality studies
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- handle harvested fish
- harvest aquatic resources
- have computer literacy
- maintain cage nets
- maintain internal communication systems
- maintain ropes
- make time-critical decisions
- operate an emergency communication system
- perform fish grading operations
- rope manipulation
- set up fish harvesting equipment
- speak different languages
- undertake continuous professional development in fishery operations
- use communication devices
- use different communication channels