Where a water-based aquaculture worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a water-based aquaculture worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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).
Also known as water-based fish culture worker, worker in water-based aquaculture, water-based fish farm worker, water-based fisheries worker.
Elementary occupations 57 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: harvest diver, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A water-based aquaculture worker needs 36 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- depurate shellfish handling and moving
- maintain shellfish depuration equipment handling and moving
- operation of lifting gears services
- transfer fish working with machinery and specialised equipment
- maintain waterbased aquaculture facilities handling and moving
- operate hatchery trays handling and moving
- prepare fish holding units handling and moving
- stock fish handling and moving
- carry out fish transportation handling and moving
- collect growth rate information information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a water-based aquaculture worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- aquaculture cage mooring worker 52% covered · difficulty 61.6
- aquaculture harvesting technician 44% covered · difficulty 68.5
- aquaculture cage technician 41% covered · difficulty 70.3
- aquaculture harvesting worker 41% covered · difficulty 70.3
- aquaculture husbandry worker 40% covered · difficulty 70.9
- aquaculture harvesting manager 30% covered · difficulty 78.4
- water-based aquaculture technician 24% covered · difficulty 82.7
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Water-based aquaculture worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 worker’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.