Aquaculture Workers

Aquaculture Workers perform routine tasks in breeding and raising fish and other aquatic stock.

What the job involves

• Feeding and grading fish, and monitoring their growth

• Assisting with farm layout and constructing nets, long-lines and cages

• Checking and looking after equipment and fish housing

• Operating pumps and other equipment

• Testing and checking on water quality

• Removing dead and dying fish

• Operating lifting equipment such as forklifts and small cranes

• Harvesting fish, and sorting and packing for transportation

• Restocking pens, pools, tanks, ponds, rivers and dams with juvenile fish

• Collecting and recording growth, production and water quality data