Direct and coordinate, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in fish hatchery production for corporations, cooperatives, or other owners.

Other names for Aquacultural Managers: Aquaculture Cooperative Marketing Director, Aquaculture Director, Aquaculture Farm Manager, Aquaculture Professor, Aquaculture Program Director, Farm Operations Technical Director, Finfish Aquaculture Specialist, Fish Farmer, Fish Hatchery Manager, Fish, Frog, or Oyster Farmer, Fisheries Technician, Hatchery Manager, Operator, Oyster Cultivator, Oyster Farmer, Oyster Grower, Production Manager, Recirculating Aquaculture Systems Specialist, Research Coordinator,

• Grow fish and shellfish as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater.
• Supervise and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.
• Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.
• Conduct and supervise stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites.
• Account for and disburse funds.
• Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.
• Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life.
• Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
• Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.
• Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.
• Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, and facility maintenance.
• Collect information regarding techniques for fish collection and fertilization, spawn incubation, and treatment of spawn and fry.
• Determine how to allocate resources, and how to respond to unanticipated problems such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.
• Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment.
• Confer with biologists, fish pathologists, and other fishery personnel to obtain data concerning fish habits, diseases, food, and environmental requirements.
• Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.
• Identify environmental requirements of a particular species, and select and oversee the preparation of sites for species cultivation.
• Scuba dive in order to inspect sea farm operations.
• Design and construct pens, floating stations, and collector strings or fences for sea farms.