Water-based aquaculture worker
Code 9216.4
Water-based aquaculture workers carry out manual activities in the ongrowing processes of cultured aquatic organisms in water-based suspended systems (floating or submerged structures). They participate in extraction operations and the handling of organisms for commercialisation. Water-based aquaculture workers maintain and clean facilities (nets, mooring ropes, cages).
Essential skills
Knowledge
- operation of lifting gears
- operation of transport equipment
- rope manipulation
- fish welfare regulations
- pedagogy
Skills and competences
- stock fish
- assess cage water quality
- aplicar protocolos normalizados de alimentación y nutrición de los animales
- collect fish samples for diagnosis
- collect live fish
- depurate shellfish
- measure the impact of specific aquaculture activity
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- operate hatchery trays
- carry out fish transportation
- carry out fish disease prevention measures
- maintain shellfish depuration equipment
- maintain waterbased aquaculture facilities
- measure water flow
- measure water quality parameters
- swim
- observe abnormal fish behaviour
- operate fish capture equipment
- operate small craft
- preparar animales acuáticos para la cosecha
- prepare fish holding units
- prepare fish treatment facilities
- prepare for small craft operation
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- monitor aquaculture stock health standards
- collect biological data
- collect growth rate information
- collect dead fish
- recolectar especies acuáticas vivas
- work in a fishery team
- transfer fish
- transport fish
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences