Role Responsibilities

• Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as vessels and nets
• Monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand
• Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites
• Contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production
• Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock
• Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life
• Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches
• Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries
• Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors
• Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment
• Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks
• Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports
• Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques