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Overview
Aquaculture husbandry workers help raise aquatic organisms in land-based growing systems, following feeding, cleaning and stock-care routines through different life stages.
In job descriptions, look for ponds or tanks, water quality, fish health, mortality checks, feeding operations, hatchery work, harvested production records and hygienic fishery practices.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Aquaculture husbandry worker roles are usually practical site roles around tanks, ponds, raceways or hatchery units. The work can include feeding stock, removing dead fish, cleaning units, checking water quality and reporting harvested production.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include recognising fish health changes, following hygiene routines, using water disinfection equipment, moving equipment safely and keeping simple production records. Some roles focus more on larvae, hatcheries or forklift-supported stock handling.
Salary context
Pay discussions usually reflect shift patterns, species handled, responsibility for water-quality checks, equipment operation and how much independent judgement is expected during feeding, cleaning or mortality events.
Career paths
Experience can grow from husbandry tasks into hatchery work, feeding coordination, stock monitoring or aquaculture technician roles. Broader responsibility may involve production planning, health monitoring or supervising daily site routines.
Good to know
Read adverts for the culture system and species. A land-based site with hatchery duties, disinfection routines and mortality reporting is different from a role mainly built around feeding rounds and cleaning stock units.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for aquaculture husbandry worker work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
45-2093.00
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Occupation group
Aquaculture workers (6221)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c0a15ec7-10e6-45e7-b69c-b85ff6f4f87f |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 6221.7 |
| ISCO group | 6221 |
| Concept type | Occupation |