aquatic animal health professional

Aquatic animal health professionals diagnose, prevent and treat diseases, injuries and dysfunctions of aquatic animals by implementing appropriate sampling protocols. They supervise the use of medicines, including vaccines, and collect data on fish health, making regular reports to the appropriate personnel. They may provide care to a wide range of aquatic animals or specialise in the treatment of a particular group or in a particular speciality area.

The most in-demand skills for this role include microbiology-bacteriology, botany, fish identification and classification, aquatic species, virology, fish biology. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives aquatic animal health professional 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.