Aquaculture Worker

Description

Performs routine tasks in breeding and raising fish and other aquatic stock.

Description

Perform routine tasks in support of aquaculture farming operations and farming operations spanning two or more of the four different primary production areas - broadacre crops, horticultural crops, livestock and aquaculture.

Tasks include

• Feeds and grades fish, and monitors their growth
• Assists with farm layout and constructs nets, long-lines and cages
• Checks and looks after equipment and fish housing, and operates pumps and other equipment
• Tests and checks on water quality, and removes dead or dying fish
• Harvests fish and other aquatic stock, and sorts and packs it for transportation
• Restocks pens, pools, tanks, ponds, rivers and dams with juvenile fish
• Collects and records growth, production and water quality data
• May operate lifting equipment such as forklifts and small cranes