Where a water-based aquaculture technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a water-based aquaculture technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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).
Also known as water-based fisheries technician, technician in water-based aquaculture, water-based fish farm technician.
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 41 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: aquaculture husbandry technician, 45%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- aquaculture husbandry technician 45% covered · difficulty 66.7
- aquaculture cage technician 38% covered · difficulty 73.1
- aquaculture harvesting technician 31% covered · difficulty 77.7
- aquaculture husbandry manager 25% covered · difficulty 82
- water-based aquaculture worker 24% covered · difficulty 82.7
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A water-based aquaculture technician needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- observe fish disease symptoms handling and moving
- organise shellfish depuration management skills
- calculate aquatic resources growth rate information skills
- carry out maintenance of aquaculture equipment constructing
- aquaculture production planning software agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- monitor growth rates of cultivated fish species handling and moving
- rates of growth assessment agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- apply fish treatments handling and moving
- assess cage water quality information skills
- carry out feeding operations handling and moving
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a water-based aquaculture technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- aquaculture husbandry technician 61% covered · difficulty 47.7
- aquaculture cage technician 56% covered · difficulty 52.1
- aquaculture harvesting technician 51% covered · difficulty 57.3
- aquaculture husbandry manager 39% covered · difficulty 67.7
- aquaculture cage mooring worker 33% covered · difficulty 71.8
- aquaculture harvesting manager 31% covered · difficulty 74.1
- aquaculture harvesting worker 30% covered · difficulty 74.6
- aquaculture production manager 30% covered · difficulty 75.1
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Water-based aquaculture technician is filed under Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, ISCO major group 6. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a water-based aquaculture technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.