aquaculture manager

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Tasks

• Apply medicinal substances to control and prevent diseases
• Incorporate biosecurity measures into daily operation
• Supervise staff
• 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
• Establish marketing programs
• Identify diseases or parasites
• Maintain financial records
• 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

• Attention to detail
• Fast-paced environment
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding

Experience

• Experience an asset
• Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
• Langue de travail : Anglais
• Heures de travail : 40 hours per week