Aquaculture Workers

Key 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

Employment Projections to 2034