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Job Description

Direct and coordinate, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in fish hatchery production for corporations, cooperatives, or other owners.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 11-9013.03

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Aquacultural Managers”.

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Tasks for “Aquaculture Director”

Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.
Confer with biologists, fish pathologists, and other fishery personnel to obtain data concerning fish habits, diseases, food, and environmental requirements.
Supervise and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.
Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment.
Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.
Grow fish and shellfish as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater.
Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.
Conduct and supervise stock examinations to identify diseases or parasites.
Collect information regarding techniques for fish collection and fertilization, spawn incubation, and treatment of spawn and fry.
Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
Scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations.
Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.
Design and construct pens, floating stations, and collector strings or fences for sea farms.
Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life.
Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, and facility maintenance.
Account for and disburse funds.
Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.
Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.
Identify environmental requirements of a particular species, and select and oversee the preparation of sites for species cultivation.

Related Technology & Tools

Biological filters
Fish holding pens
Fish egg sorters
Ultraviolet light UV water disinfection systems
Water filters
Aeration pumps
Layout squares
Portable power saws
Propane torches
Fish crowders
Tanker trucks
pH probes
Power nail guns
Gas-powered generators
Power mowers
Aquaculture tanks
Claw hammers
Water level monitors
Tubing cutters
Ozone generators
Utility knives
Fish incubators
Adjustable hand wrenches
Laptop computers
Tongue and groove pliers
Fish counters
Fish egg counters
Fish collection nets
Round metal files
Hacksaws
Screen filters
Turbine water pumps
Phillips screwdrivers
Power nail pullers
Clockwork belt feeders
Dip nets
Handheld dissolved oxygen meters
Water test kits
Fish graders
Personal computers
Cage nets
Multipurpose pliers
Woodworking chisels
Multipurpose tractors
Centrifugal water pumps
Temperature monitors
Fish traps
Seine reels
Pipe wrenches
Fish feeders
Fish transfer pumps
Utility forklifts
Safety gloves
Digital flowmeters
Straight screwdrivers
Fry nets
Air compression equipment
Cordless power drills

Staff scheduling software
Fish stocking databases
Time reporting software
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access
AquaSoft Farm Manager
Hatchery database systems
Data entry software
Statistical analysis software
Microsoft Word
Web browser software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft PowerPoint