Aquaculture husbandry worker
Code 6221.7
Aquaculture husbandry workers are active in the production of aquatic organisms in land-based on-growing processes. They assist in the process of raising organisms through all stages of their life cycle.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- biosecurity
- rope manipulation
Skills and competences
- stock fish
- follow hygienic practices in fishery operations
- assist with vaccination procedures
- collect fish samples for diagnosis
- load equipment
- manure aquaculture ponds
- monitor fish health status
- monitor water quality
- unload equipment
- screen live fish deformities
- measure the impact of specific aquaculture activity
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- identity aquaculture species
- clean aquaculture stock units
- operate forklift
- use aquaculture heavy equipment
- maintain aquaculture containers
- maintain aquaculture ponds
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- maintain aquaculture water quality in hatcheries
- maintain aquaculture water quality
- measure water flow
- operate fish capture equipment
- operate biological filtration
- prepare fish holding units
- carry out feeding operations
- perform fish grading operations
- collect biological data
- collect growth rate information
- collect dead fish
- transport fish
- use oxygenation equipment
- use water disinfection equipment
Transversal competences
- follow safety precautions in fishery operations
- work in shifts
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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