water-based aquaculture technician

Water-based aquaculture technicians coordinate and supervise activities on fattening aquaculture organisms in suspended systems (floating or submerged structures). They participate in extraction operations and handling organisms for commercialisation. Water-based aquaculture technicians supervise maintenance of equipment and facilities (cages, rafts, longlines, bouchot).

The most in-demand skills for this role include fish grading, animal welfare legislation, rates of growth assessment, aquaculture production planning software, computerised feeding systems, assess cage water quality. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives water-based aquaculture technician a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.