80022 Managers in aquaculture

What this occupation covers

Managers in aquaculture manage operations of facilities which cultivate and harvest fish, shellfish or marine plants for replenishment of wildlife stocks or for commercial sale. They are employed by public or private fish hatcheries and commercial aquatic farms, or they may be self-employed.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 12 main duties for this code.

• Manage the overall operation of a fish hatchery, fish farm or other aquatic farm
• Identify requirements of the species and select and oversee preparation of site for species cultivation
• Co-ordinate selection and maintenance of brood stock
• Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
• Monitor environment and maintain optimum conditions
• Conduct and supervise stock examination to identify disease or parasites, and apply prescribed medicinal substances to control and prevent infection
• Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment
• Collect and record growth and production data
• Manage and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers and supervise technicians and technologists
• Maintain financial records and establish market strategies, inventory and quality control methods
• May scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations
• May design and construct pens, floating stations and collector strings or fences for sea farms.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 12 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 85102 Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers
• 22110 Biological technologists and technicians

Excluded from this code

• Aquaculture support worker (See 85102 Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers)
• Aquaculture technician (See 22110 Biological technologists and technicians)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

aquaculture director · aquaculture manager · aquaculture operator · eel farmer · fish culture manager · fish culture operator · fish farm manager · fish farm operator · fish farmer · fish hatchery manager · fish hatchery operator · fish hatchery supervisor · lobster farmer · mussel farmer · mussel grower · oyster farmer · oyster grower · salmon farmer · salmon grower · shellfish farmer · trout farmer

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• A college diploma in aquaculture or a related field or Several years of experience in fishing or aquaculture operations are usually required.
• A commercial aquaculture or fish hatchery licence, permit or lease is required for self-employed aquaculture managers.