Aquaculture harvesting manager
Also called fish farm harvesting manager, harvesting operations manager, manager of aquaculture harvesting
Aquaculture harvesting managers control harvesting operations of aquatic organisms which entails understanding and knowledge of techniques and equipment used in harvesting processes.
What you'd do
Aquaculture and fisheries production managers · ILO- Monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports
- Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches
- Contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production
- Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites
- Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries
- Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life
- Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques
- Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock
- Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks
- Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as vessels and nets
- Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors
- Indoors and outdoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospectsMany jobs will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Well above averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €3,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €11,300 (Italy), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among managers in the EU, women earn 27% less per hour than men. Managers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Usually a degreeA degree in fisheries is the usual route.
330 institutions in the EU offer agriculture bachelor's degrees. Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.22 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 13 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for aquaculture and fisheries production managers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).