Elements and Performance Criteria
- Select, condition and spawn broodstock
- Confirm breeding objectives, selection aims and strategies with management
- Confirm hatchery production schedule, labour and resource requirements, health and safety and risk minimisation procedures with production personnel
- Ensure quality of broodstock selection is met according to workplace requirements
- Manage the broodstock conditioning, spawning and recovery process
- Identify broodstock to be spawned again at a later date and move to holding tanks or areas
- Select or cull progeny
- Manage progeny husbandry to ensure high survival and growth or other selection criteria
- Carry out quality assessment of progeny regularly and cull or remove inferior progeny
- Monitor progeny health and promptly control any disease outbreaks, sending samples to relevant authorities
- Monitor effects of feed and health treatments on progeny and take actions to avoid or minimise health problems and negative effects on product quality
- Monitor progeny growth and development using an appropriate performance recording system
- Carry out harvesting to meet hatchery production plan
- Maintain breeding records according to industry standards and breeding program requirements
- Monitor, review and improve hatchery performance
- Review the progress of hatchery production plan with management
- Maintain and analyse physical and financial evaluations of hatchery performance
- Obtain and assess information on innovations to determine relevance and possible application
- Test innovations to determine suitability and adaptability to individual circumstances, their benefit and cost, and report outcomes to management team
- Discuss selection aims, breeding objectives and strategies with management team