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Job ActivitiesAbilitiesJob ConditionsWork SatisfactionEducation/Training

Common Tasks

1.Assign to workers duties such as fertilizing and incubating spawn, feeding and transferring fish, and planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish beds.
2.Confer with managers to determine times and places of seed planting, and cultivating, feeding, or harvesting of fish or shellfish.
3.Direct and monitor worker activities such as treatment and rearing of fingerlings, maintenance of equipment, and harvesting of fish or shellfish.
4.Direct workers to correct problems such as disease, quality of seed distribution, or adequacy of cultivation.
5.Observe fish and beds or ponds to detect diseases, monitor fish growth, determine quality of fish, or determine completeness of harvesting.
6.Plan work schedules according to personnel and equipment availability, tidal levels, feeding schedules, or transfer and harvest needs.
7.Prepare or direct the preparation of fish food, and specify medications to be added to food and water to treat fish for diseases.
8.Supervise the artificial spawning of various salmon and trout species.
9.Train workers in spawning, rearing, cultivating, and harvesting methods, and in the use of equipment.
10.Engage in the same fishery work as workers supervised.
11.Interview and select new employees.
12.Maintain workers' time records.
13.Perform both supervisory and management functions such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work.
14.Record the numbers and types of fish or shellfish reared, harvested, released, sold, and shipped.
15.Requisition supplies.
16.Select and ship eggs to other hatcheries.

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