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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

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Tasks for “Aquacultural Managers”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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