Direct and coordinate, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in fish hatchery production for corporations, cooperatives, or other owners.
<ul><li>Grow fish and shellfish as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater.</li><li>Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life.</li><li>Supervise and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.</li><li>Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.</li><li>Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, and facility maintenance.</li><li>Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.</li><li>Account for and disburse funds.</li><li>Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.</li><li>Determine how to allocate resources and to respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.</li><li>Conduct and supervise stock examinations to identify diseases or parasites.</li><li>Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.</li><li>Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.</li><li>Identify environmental requirements of a particular species, and select and oversee the preparation of sites for species cultivation.</li><li>Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment.</li><li>Confer with biologists, fish pathologists, and other fishery personnel to obtain data concerning fish habits, diseases, food, and environmental requirements.</li><li>Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.</li><li>Collect information regarding techniques for fish collection and fertilization, spawn incubation, and treatment of spawn and fry.</li></ul>