Aquaculture rearing technician
Code 6221.9
Aquaculture rearing technicians operate in aquatic organisms' production. They are specialists in the rearing, weaning and production of juveniles.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fish biology
- biosecurity
- fish identification and classification
- plankton production
- aquaculture reproduction
Skills and competences
- feed broodstock
- assess feeding behaviour of larvae
- control aquatic production environment
- monitor fish health status
- monitor water quality
- monitor hatchery production
- monitor fish mortality rates
- cultivate plankton
- screen live fish deformities
- ensure compliance with aquaculture standards
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- handle larval weaning process
- condition broodstock
- manage capture broodstock operations
- induce spawning and fertilisation on aquaculture species
- carry out fish disease prevention measures
- culture aquaculture hatchery stocks
- maintain hatchery records
- maintain hatchery equipment
- maintain hatchery facilities
- maintain aquaculture water quality in hatcheries
- maintain the production of juveniles at the nursery stage
- write work-related reports
- preserve fish samples for diagnosis
- carry out hatchery production processes
- treat fish diseases
- use aquacultural heating equipment
- use oxygenation equipment
- use water disinfection equipment
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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