Directly supervise and coordinate activities of aquacultural workers.

• Supervisor, Fish Hatchery
• Supervisor, Shellfish Farming

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

• analyze operational or management reports or records
• assign work to staff or employees
• conduct or attend staff meetings
• conduct training for personnel
• consult with managerial or supervisory personnel
• demonstrate or explain assembly or use of equipment
• dictate correspondence
• direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
• identify crop characteristics
• inspect crops or fields
• maintain production or work records
• mend or repair fishing nets or other watercraft gear
• modify work procedures or processes to meet deadlines
• monitor number or type of fish reared or harvested
• monitor worker performance
• observe fish or beds or ponds
• operate fishing equipment
• oversee work progress to verify safety or conformance to standards
• perform safety inspections in agricultural, forestry, or fishing setting
• plan or organize work
• prepare or maintain employee records
• preserve, cure, or cold store meat, poultry or fish
• recommend purchase or repair of furnishings or equipment
• resolve or assist workers to resolve work problems
• schedule activities, classes, or events
• schedule employee work hours
• understand second language
• use fish culturing techniques
• use knowledge of seamanship or boat handling
• use oral or written communication techniques