Water-based aquaculture technician
Code 6221.11
Water-based aquaculture technicians coordinate and supervise activities on fattening aquaculture organisms in suspended systems (floating or submerged structures). They participate in extraction operations and handling organisms for commercialisation. Water-based aquaculture technicians supervise maintenance of equipment and facilities (cages, rafts, longlines, bouchot).
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fish grading
- rates of growth assessment
- animal welfare legislation
- computerised feeding systems
Skills and competences
- assess cage water quality
- apply fish treatments
- calculate aquatic resources growth rate
- monitor aquaculture feeding behaviour
- control aquatic production environment
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- swim
- observe abnormal fish behaviour
- observe fish disease symptoms
- operate small craft
- organise shellfish depuration
- prepare for small craft operation
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- aquaculture production planning software
- carry out feeding operations
- perform fish grading operations
- monitor growth rates of cultivated fish species
Transversal competences
- observar el comportamiento alimentario de los animales
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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