Farming and fishing
Fish farmer
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +2.1% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Aquaculture workers (ISCO 6221). 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.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
57 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- aquaculture cage technician
- aquaculture harvest technician
- aquaculture harvesting inspector
- aquaculture harvesting technician
- aquaculture hatchery manager
- aquaculture hatchery supervisor
- aquaculture hatchery technician
- aquaculture hatchery worker
- aquaculture husbandry technician
- aquaculture husbandry worker
- aquaculture mooring manager
- aquaculture mooring supervisor
- aquaculture on-growing technician
- aquaculture on-growing worker
- aquaculture rearing technician
- aquaculture recirculation technician
- aquaculture support worker
- aquatic animals hatchery worker
- aquatic animals husbandry worker
- aquatic harvester
- aquatic harvester operator
- cage technician
- fish cage technician
- fish culture mooring manager
- fish culturist
- fish farm harvesting technician
- fish farm hatchery supervisor
- fish farm hatchery technician
- fish farm hatchery worker
- fish farm husbandry technician
- fish farm mooring manager
- fish farm mooring operator
- fish farm recirculation technician
- fish farming husbandry worker
- fish hatchery technician
- fish rearing technician
- fisheries harvesting technician
- fisheries husbandry technician
- fishery mooring manager
- fishery recirculation technician
- harvest technician
- harvesting technician
- manager of aquaculture hatchery
- marine harvesting inspector
- marine harvesting manager
- technician in aquaculture cages
- technician in aquaculture harvesting
- technician in aquaculture hatchery
- technician in aquaculture husbandry
- technician in aquaculture rearing
- technician in aquaculture recirculation
- technician in water-based aquaculture
- water harvesting inspector
- water harvesting operative
- water-based aquaculture technician
- water-based fish farm technician
- water-based fisheries technician
Training
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Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.