water-based aquaculture worker

Water-based aquaculture workers carry out manual activities in the ongrowing processes of cultured aquatic organisms in water-based suspended systems (floating or submerged structures). They participate in extraction operations and the handling of organisms for commercialisation. Water-based aquaculture workers maintain and clean facilities (nets, mooring ropes, cages).

The most in-demand skills for this role include rope manipulation, fish welfare regulations, pedagogy, operation of lifting gears, operation of transport equipment, 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 worker 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.