First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors - Fishery Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of fishery workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same fishery work as the workers they supervise.

Job Task

• Assigns workers to duties, such as fertilizing and incubating spawn, feeding and transferring fish, and planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish beds.
• Oversees worker activities, such as treatment and rearing of fingerlings, maintenance of equipment, and harvesting of fish or shellfish.
• Directs workers to correct deviations or problems, such as disease, quality of seed distribution, or adequacy of cultivation.
• Plans work schedules according to availability of personnel and equipment, tidal levels, feeding schedules, or need for transfer or harvest.
• Observes fish and beds or ponds to detect diseases, determine quality of fish, or determine completeness of harvesting.
• Records number and type of fish or shellfish reared and harvested, and keeps workers' time records.
• Confers with manager to determine time and place of seed planting, and cultivating, feeding, or harvesting of fish or shellfish.
• Trains workers in spawning, rearing, cultivating, and harvesting methods, and use of equipment.

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