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Supervisors and Managers of Aquacultural Workers

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Supervisors and Managers of Aquacultural Workers

Tasks and Duties

  • Assigns workers to duties, such as fertilizing and incubating spawn, feeding and transferring fish, and planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish beds.
  • Oversees worker activities, such as treatment and rearing of fingerlings, maintenance of equipment, and harvesting of fish or shellfish.
  • Directs workers to correct deviations or problems, such as disease, quality of seed distribution, or adequacy of cultivation.
  • Plans work schedules according to availability of personnel and equipment, tidal levels, feeding schedules, or need for transfer or harvest.
  • Observes fish and beds or ponds to detect diseases, determine quality of fish, or determine completeness of harvesting.
  • Records number and type of fish or shellfish reared and harvested, and keeps workers' time records.
  • Confers with manager to determine time and place of seed planting, and cultivating, feeding, or harvesting of fish or shellfish.
  • Trains workers in spawning, rearing, cultivating, and harvesting methods, and use of equipment.

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