Aquaculture hatchery technician
Code 6221.4
Aquaculture hatchery technicians operate and control all aspects of the hatchery production processes, from broodstock management to pregrowing juveniles.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fish biology
- animal welfare legislation
- sanitation measures for aquaculture hatchery production
- plankton production
- aquaculture reproduction
- green water incubation technology
Skills and competences
- enforce sanitation procedures
- monitor fish health status
- monitor water quality
- monitor hatchery production
- monitor feeding systems
- cultivate plankton
- screen live fish deformities
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- condition broodstock
- manage capture broodstock operations
- induce spawning and fertilisation on aquaculture species
- interpret scientific data to assess water quality
- manipular peces reproductores
- maintain hatchery records
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- maintain the production of juveniles at the nursery stage
- carry out waste water treatment
- operate hatchery recirculation system
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- carry out feeding operations
- carry out hatchery production processes
Transversal competences
- manage animal biosecurity
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