How to become a fish or Prawn farm worker

Official title: Fish/Prawn farm worker

Also called: Farm worker (prawn-pond), Fish farm worker, Fish farmer, Fish hatcher, Prawn farm worker, Prawn farmer, Ÿ Fish hatcher, Ÿ Prawn farmer

Fish/Prawn farm worker performs a variety of tasks in the breeding and raising of fishes and prawns. He/she obtains and hatches fish eggs or buys young fish (fry) from fish hatcheries. He/she collects, sorts and markets fishes and prawns for food or for stocking rivers, lakes and other fishing grounds.

Main tasks

• Breeding, raising and cultivating fish, mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater
• Collecting and recording growth, production and environmental data
• Conducting and supervising stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites
• Monitoring environments to ensure maintenance of optimum 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
• Cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on or offshore and preparing fish and other products for shipment
• Maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, boats and other equipment
• Delivering or marketing products

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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• Aquarium fish farm worker
• Coastal waters/Deep sea fishery worker

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Questions people ask

Will AI change the work of a fish or Prawn farm worker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026