Aquaculture cage technician
Code 6221.1
Aquaculture cage technicians operate in the production of aquatic organisms in water-based (freshwater, brackish water, salt water) on-growing processes in cages.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fish biology
- fish grading
- effect of water currents
- rates of growth assessment
- operation of lifting gears
- pests and diseases
Skills and competences
- assess cage water quality
- perform water chemistry analysis
- aplicar protocolos normalizados de alimentación y nutrición de los animales
- implement fin fish feeding regimes
- apply fish treatments
- perform water treatments
- monitor aquaculture feeding behaviour
- control aquatic production environment
- monitor fish health status
- monitor fish mortality rates
- monitor feeding systems
- screen live fish deformities
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- identify common aquatic species diseases
- carry out fish disease prevention measures
- manipular residuos
- maintain diving equipment
- maintain grading equipment
- maintain aquaculture cage equipment
- measure water flow
- measure water quality parameters
- swim
- observe abnormal fish behaviour
- operate small craft
- prepare for small craft operation
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- perform diving interventions
- carry out feeding operations
- supervise cage net systems
- use water disinfection equipment
- check diving equipment
Transversal competences
- carry out maintenance on cage equipment and machinery
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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