- Somers
Responsible for daily fish culture activities, water quality monitoring, equipment maintenance, and hatchery administration in Montana.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily fish culture activities including cleaning tanks, feeding fish, removing dead and moribund fish, loading and monitoring automatic fish feeders, monitoring and adjusting feed schedules, data collection for rearing records, and fish health monitoring.
- Sample fish for size and growth, using that data to accurately project fish growth and calculate tank density.
- Establish and monitor water quality parameters in all rearing units.
- Perform in depth water quality analysis on recirculating aquaculture rearing units utilizing a combination of handheld probes, inline probes, titrations and colorimetric tests, and initiates corrective action after analyzing water quality data.
- Assist with remote egg collection activities such as fish collection, spawning, fertilization, triploid induction, disease screening, and genetic sampling.