aquaculture manager

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience: Experience an asset

Tasks:

• Apply medicinal substances to control and prevent diseases
• Incorporate biosecurity measures into daily operation
• Train staff
• Design and construct pens, floating stations and collector strings or fences for sea farms
• Scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations
• Co-ordinate selection and maintenance of brood stock
• Collect and record data
• Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
• Establish inventory and quality control methods
• Identify diseases or parasites
• Manage and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers and supervise technicians and technologists
• Manage fish hatchery, fish farm or other aquatic farm
• Monitor environment and maintain optimum conditions
• Operate and maintain harvesting and cultivating equipment
• Oversee preparation of site for species cultivation

Transportation / travel information: Public transportation is not available

Work conditions and physical capabilities: