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| The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Legislation, regulations and codes of practice may relate to: | developmentenvironmental protection and ESD principles fisheries, aquaculture, ornamental, holding or display facilitiesharbours, navigation and maritime regulationsIndigenous native title, land claims and cultural activities, including fishing by traditional methodslivestock translocation, health treatment, biosecurity and animal welfare. |
Aquaculture developmentandproduction may include: | implied individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivatedfarming, culturing or holding of aquatic organismsimplied interventions in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding and protection from predators. |
Cultured or held stock may include: | adults, broodstock (ready to breed), seedstock or stockers, eggs and sperm, fertilised eggs, larvae, post-larvae, seed, spat, hatchlings, yearlings, juveniles, fry, fingerlings, yearlings, smolt, sporophytes, seedlings and tissue culturesfinfish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic reptiles, amphibians, polychaete and oligochaete worms, plankton, micro-algae, seaweed, aquatic plants, live rock, sponges and other aquatic invertebratesfor human consumption (seafood), stockers for other farms, stockers for conservation or recreational fishing, display or companion animals (ornamentals), and other products, including pearls, skins, shells, eggs, chemicals and pigmentswild caught, hatchery or nursery reared. |
Reportable events may include: | illegal disease treatments importation of live cultured or held stockmovement of specified species off-farmnotifiable diseases. |
Principles of ESD may include: | animal welfare ethicschemical use and contaminant reductioncollection or disposal of broodstock or seedstockdisposal of effluent and waste:biohazard (e.g. moribund animals, hormones and chemicals)from culture structuresnitrogenous waters or sedimentssolid and soluble wastesuneaten food and settled solidsmovement of live animals and seedstockprevention of live culture organisms being introduced into environmentprotected species. |
Consequences of non-compliance may include: | culling/slaughter and disposal of live stockexpiation feesmonetary fines imposed by courttermination of lease or licence by authorised person. |
Siteinspections may include: | associated equipment or systems, such as:blowers, aerators, paddlewheels and aspiratorsgreenhouses, hothouses and igloospest, predator and disease control structureswater supply, and disposal or effluent systems, including pumps, pipes, canals, channels, settlement ponds and storage damsculture or holding structures or systems, such as: cages, pontoons, enclosures and pens, including associated moorings, anchors, floats and markersdams, ponds and poolsdisplay tanks, aquaria and aquascapesgrow out facilities, hatcheries and nurseriesharvesting swimways, canals or channelslive holding tanks, bins, cages and penslonglines, posts, racks and rails, rafts, fences, socks, trays, sticks, baskets, modules, barrels, bags and panelsopen, flow-through, closed and semi-closed systems purging or depurating systemstanks, raceways and recirculating systemsoffshore and inshoreon-land, lakes, streams, rivers, dams and reservoirs. |
Licensing terms and conditions may include: | meeting the development schedule as determined under legislation relevant to aquaculture developmentrequirements for treatment of effluent and other wastessecurity arrangementsstocking densitiestime within which construction must commenceuse of chemicals. |
Appropriate action (on receiving notification of a reportable event) may include: | call in health and environmental expertscall in veterinary assistanceestablishing and maintaining quarantineorganising and supervising culling or slaughter of stock. |