Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in trapping and spawning fish, incubating eggs, and rearing fry in fish hatchery: Assigns workers in collecting, fertilizing and incubating of spawn, and transferring of fingerlings to rearing ponds and tanks.

• 2) Oversees treatment and rearing of fingerlings.

• 3) Observes appearance and actions of developing fish to detect diseases, and specifies medications to be added to food and water.

• 4) Coordinates work schedule and directs workers to feed, sort, and transfer fish to designated ponds, streams, or commercial holding tanks.

• 5) Trains workers in methods of spawning and rearing fish.

• 6) Records number and type of fish reared, released, or sold.

• 7) Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.

• 8) May supervise workers engaged in rearing food fish or tropical and exotic fish and be designated Supervisor, Commercial Fish Hatchery.