Mariculture Farmer
OFO Code: 622102
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 622102
- Occupation
- Mariculture Farmer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6221 · Skilled Aquaculture Workers
Official description
Skilled aquaculture workers breed and raise fish and cultivate mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Mariculture Production Supervisor, Mariculture Farm Foreman, Hatchery Manager (Marine Fish / Aquatic Stock)
- Maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, boats and other equipment
- Supervising and training aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers
- Monitoring environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life
- Breeding, raising and cultivating fish, mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater
- Renting or investing in buildings, equipment and machinery and purchasing food and other supplies
- Conducting and supervising stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites
- Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques
- Collecting and recording growth, production, and environmental data
- Delivering or marketing products
- Cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on- or offshore and preparing fish and other products for shipment
2. Demand status
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned