Aquaculture husbandry technician
Code 6221.6
Aquaculture husbandry technicians operate in aquatic organisms' production, specialising in the husbandry of ongrowing culture processes, especially in feeding and stock management.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fish biology
- fish grading
- aquaculture cultivation equipment
- rates of growth assessment
- computerised feeding systems
Skills and competences
- aplicar protocolos normalizados de alimentación y nutrición de los animales
- implement fin fish feeding regimes
- apply fish treatments
- assist with vaccination procedures
- calculate aquatic resources growth rate
- monitor aquaculture feeding behaviour
- control aquatic production environment
- monitor water quality
- monitor fish mortality rates
- monitor feeding systems
- rear food fish
- measure the impact of specific aquaculture activity
- carry out preparations for fish disease specialist
- ensure compliance with aquaculture standards
- ensure cage safety requirements are followed
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- identity aquaculture species
- identify risks in aquaculture facilities
- inspect aquaculture equipment
- use aquaculture heavy equipment
- maintain technical equipment
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment
- swim
- operate small craft
- prepare for small craft operation
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- aquaculture production planning software
- perform fish grading operations
- monitor aquaculture stock health standards
- treat fish diseases
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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