Fishmonger
OFO Code: 681104
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 681104
- Occupation
- Fishmonger
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6811 · Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers
Official description
Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers slaughter animals, clean, cut and dress meat and fish, remove bones and prepare related food items or preserve meat, fish and other foods and food products by drying, salting for smoking.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Fish Preserver, Fish Boner / Cutter, Mussel Marinator, Mussel Opener, Fish Dehydrator, Oyster Opener / Canner, Fish Filleter, Abalone Sheller
- Selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing and labelling products, and receiving payment
- Curing meat, fish and other foods
- Cooking or in other ways preparing meat, fish and related food items for sale
- Slaughtering animals
- Operating smokehouses or ovens to smoke meat, fish and other foodstuffs
- Boning, cutting and dressing meat and fish for sale or further processing
- Preparing ingredients and making sausages and similar products using chopping, mixing and shaping machines
- Flaying and trimming carcasses
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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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