Aquaculture Workers

This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.

• 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.

If you’re interested in outdoor work such as growing plants or raising stock, you may be interested in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing industry.Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing includes a wide range of occupations, skills and activities. This industry has a massive undertaking supplying your local supermarket with numerous fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. There are lots of types of farming and specialty jobs – cane, cotton farming, beef and dairy, organic as well as all the supporting maintaining and selling farm machinery, just to name a few.

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