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Career Details :: First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Fishery Workers

Description

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.

Experience

Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Education

Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.

Tasks

• Directs workers to correct deviations or problems, such as disease, quality of seed distribution, or adequacy of cultivation.
• 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.
• Observes fish and beds or ponds to detect diseases, determine quality of fish, or determine completeness of harvesting.
• Trains workers in spawning, rearing, cultivating, and harvesting methods, and use of equipment.
• 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.
• Plans work schedules according to availability of personnel and equipment, tidal levels, feeding schedules, or need for transfer or harvest.

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Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Problem Sensitivity
• Deductive Reasoning
• Information Ordering
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
• Scheduling Work and Activities
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job

Important Skills

• Management of Personnel Resources
  
• Coordination
  
• Implementation Planning
  
• Time Management
  
• Instructing
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Frustrating Circumstances
• Consequence of Error

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Agriculture Production Management (A)	[ add ]
Agriculture/Life Sciences (M)	[ add ]
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Aquaculture (M)	[ add ]
Aquaculture/Aquarium Sciences (B)	[ add ]
Aquaculture/Aquatic Science (B)	[ add ]
Aquaculture/Fish Technology (B)	[ add ]
Aquaculture/Fisheries (M)	[ add ]
Aquatic/Fisheries Science (B)	[ add ]
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Fisheries (A)	[ add ]
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Fisheries (M)	[ add ]
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Fisheries Biology (M)	[ add ]
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Fisheries/Wildlife/Wetlands (B)	[ add ]
Fisheries/Wildlife/Wildlands Science/Management (D)	[ add ]
Fishery Resources (B)	[ add ]
Fishery Resources (M)	[ add ]
Fishery Science (B)	[ add ]
Fishery Science (M)	[ add ]
Fishing/Fisheries Science (M)	[ add ]
Fishing/Fisheries Science/Management (B)	[ add ]
Fishing/Fisheries Sciences/Management (D)	[ add ]
Fishing/Fisheries Sciences/Management (M)	[ add ]
Food/Agriculture Business (B)	[ add ]
Freshwater Science (B)	[ add ]
International Agriculture/Rural Development (B)	[ add ]
Marine Fisheries (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fish Conservation/Management (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fish/Conservation Biology (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Biology (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Biology/Management (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Conservation (D)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Management (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Resources (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Resources (M)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Science (B)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Science (D)	[ add ]
Wildlife/Fisheries Science (M)	[ add ]

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