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Aquaculture Farm Manager
OFO Code: 131201
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 131201
- Occupation
- Aquaculture Farm Manager
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1312 · Aquaculture and Fisheries Production Managers
Official description
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.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Fresh Water Aquaculture Farm Manager, Aquaculture Hatchery Manager, Crocodile Farm Manager, Abalone Farm Manager, Mariculture Farmer / Farm Manager
- Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites
- 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
- 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
- Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment
- 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
- Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors
- Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries
- Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.