Aquacultural Managers

Grow fish and shellfish as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater.

Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life.

Supervise and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.

Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, and facility maintenance.

Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.

Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.

Account for and disburse funds.

Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.

Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.

Conduct and supervise stock examinations to identify diseases or parasites.

Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.

Design and construct pens, floating stations, and collector strings or fences for sea farms.

Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.

Identify environmental requirements of a particular species, and select and oversee the preparation of sites for species cultivation.

Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment.

Confer with biologists, fish pathologists, and other fishery personnel to obtain data concerning fish habits, diseases, food, and environmental requirements.

Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.

Scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations.

Collect information regarding techniques for fish collection and fertilization, spawn incubation, and treatment of spawn and fry.