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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.9 - handling animals S6.9.2 - tending and breeding aquatic animals Condition broodstock
Description
Incubate eggs until hatching. Assess quality of eggs. Inspect fish eggs. Remove dead, unviable, and off-colour eggs using a suction syringe. Produce eyed eggs. Hatch and maintain new-born larvae.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 6 (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers)
Essential for
- Aquaculture rearing technicianAquaculture rearing technicians operate in aquatic organisms' production. They are specialists in the rearing, weaning and production of juveniles. Other titles The following job t…
- Aquaculture hatchery workerAquaculture hatchery workers are active in the production of aquatic organisms in land-based hatchery processes. They assist in the process of raising organisms throughout the earl…
- Aquaculture hatchery technicianAquaculture hatchery technicians operate and control all aspects of the hatchery production processes, from broodstock management to pregrowing juveniles. Duties The duties of an a…
Related skills
- Carry out hatchery production processes
- Culture aquaculture hatchery stocks
- Maintain hatchery facilities
- Work in outdoor conditions
- Maintain hatchery equipment
- Use water disinfection equipment
- Monitor larval growth
- Feed broodstock
- Collect broodstock
- Carry out feeding operations
- Ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- Work in inclement conditions
Last updated on February 18, 2026
