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Aquaculture and fisheries production managers

Aquaculture and fisheries production managers plan, direct and coordinate production in large-scale aquaculture and fishery operations to catch and harvest fish and shellfish, and to grow fish, shellfish or other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater. Tasks include - (a) monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand; (b) establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports; (c) conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches; (d) contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production; (e) conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites; (f) devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries; (g) monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life; (h) directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques; (i) coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock; (j) directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams or commercial tanks; (k) purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies such as vessels and nets; (l) organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment; (m) overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Aquaculture production manager - Fishing operations manager - Shore captain (fishing) - Trawler manager Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Fish farmer - 6221 - Fish hatchery manager - 6221 - Oyster farmer - 6221 - Seafood farmer - 6221 - Fishing vessel skipper (coastal waters) - 6222 - Fishing master (deep sea) - 6223

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 167 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • aquaculture harvesting manager
  • aquaculture husbandry manager
  • aquaculture production manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

78
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 22 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 22 = 78

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

62.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

34.2
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 35.7 · hand skill 35.7 · cramped spaces 31.3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 62.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 41, while the average is 22. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 41

    Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports

    Low
  2. 30

    Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors.

    Low
  3. 28

    Monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand

    Low
  4. 27.5

    Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches

    Low
  5. 26.5

    Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock

    Low
  6. 22

    Contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production

    Very Low
  7. 20.8

    Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries

    Very Low
  8. 18

    Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as vessels and nets

    Very Low
  9. 15

    Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment

    Very Low
  10. 14.8

    Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites

    Very Low
  11. 14

    Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life

    Very Low
  12. 14

    Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques

    Very Low
  13. 14

    Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks

    Very Low

13 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
66
AI does it for you
41

Helping wins by 25 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1211

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.4. This one is above that.