Description
Directly supervise and coordinate fish hatchery operations and staff, overseeing spawning, egg incubation, feeding, rearing, grading, health management, stocking/shipping, and facility maintenance to meet production and regulatory requirements.
- • Assign feeding, cleaning, egg care, and facility maintenance tasks.
- • Record species, life stages, and numbers reared, graded, stocked, sold, and shipped.
- • Enforce biosecurity and safety procedures; coach or discipline as needed.
- • Observe fish for disease, stress, or injury; alert veterinarians/biologists or managers.
- • Monitor water quality and fish growth; inspect tanks, raceways, and ponds for disease or parasites.
- • Train staff on operation of pumps, feeders, graders, and safe work practices.
- • Administer or oversee fish health treatments per veterinary guidance.
- • Train staff in broodstock handling, spawning, incubation, rearing, grading, and stocking.
- • Train workers in water quality testing, sanitation, and PPE use.
- • Confer with managers/biologists on production plans, stocking targets, and water conditions.
- • Coordinate with agencies or customers on permits, stocking schedules, and transport.
- • Inspect fish stocks and units to set feeding rates, grading, or treatment actions.
- • Set up, relocate, and calibrate hatchery equipment at tanks, raceways, or mobile units.
- • Coordinate selection and movement of fish for grading, spawning, and stocking.
- • Schedule crews, equipment, and fish-hauling vehicles across sites and shifts.
- • Operate or direct use of vehicles, forklifts, feeders, pumps, and aeration systems.
- • Handle supervisory and administrative tasks, including staffing, budgeting inputs, and reports.
- • Arrange transport of fish, eggs, feed, oxygen, equipment, and supplies to and from sites.
- • Inspect tanks, raceways, net pens, plumbing, aerators, and supplies for service needs.
- • Review production plans, inventory, and shipping orders to plan daily activities.
- • Inspect water, filtration, and backup power systems to identify maintenance needs.
- • Meet with managers to set targets, review equipment status, and finalize schedules.
- • Maintain timekeeping, payroll, training, and performance records.
- • Requisition feed, chemicals, nets, oxygen, parts, and tools.
- • Oversee construction or upgrades of tanks, plumbing, and aeration systems.
- • Issue and track nets, waders, PPE, feeders, and sampling tools.
- • Monitor budgets for production, maintenance, and infrastructure improvements.
- • Troubleshoot and repair pumps, feeders, chillers, and monitoring systems.
- • Audit operations to solve problems, improve methods, and ensure regulatory compliance.
- • Plan work schedules based on staffing, life-stage needs, and equipment availability.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
