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

Download the role profile

We'll send you a profile ready to paste into your job ad: purpose, essential and optional skills, and what to assess. One email, no signup.

What to assess for this role

Technical knowledge can be verified with tests and references. What never shows up on a CV are the transversal competences, and they explain most failed hires. Before closing, it pays to measure them with a standardised battery.

See psychometric assessment

Need to find this profile?

We source, screen and assess candidates for this kind of role, with a replacement guarantee. Fast process and a flat fee per role, no percentage of the salary.

In Obrii App the profile becomes a job descriptor, a CV screener and an interview scorecard. Try it free for 14 days, no credit card.

Sources

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