NOC 80022: Managers in aquaculture

Managers in aquaculture manage operations of facilities which cultivate and harvest fish, shellfish or marine plants for replenishment of wildlife stocks or for commercial sale. They are employed by public or private fish hatcheries and commercial aquatic farms, or they may be self-employed.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): yes, TEER 0.
• Canadian Experience Class: counts as skilled Canadian work (1 year in the last 3 years).
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: counts as skilled work (1 year of continuous work in the last 10 years).
• Federal Skilled Trades Program: not one of the eligible trades.
• High-wage occupation (from November 3, 2026): no. No high-wage add-on, and a job offer in it earns no CRS points.

TEER 0: Management occupations. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 80022 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws.

Category lists checked on canada.ca on 2026-10-17. IRCC category-based selection

CRS points for work in NOC 80022

Skilled Canadian work in this occupation earns the standard points, the same before and after November 3, 2026, with no high-wage add-on:

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Manage the overall operation of a fish hatchery, fish farm or other aquatic farm
• Identify requirements of the species and select and oversee preparation of site for species cultivation
• Co-ordinate selection and maintenance of brood stock
• Determine food requirements and structure feeding regimes
• Monitor environment and maintain optimum conditions
• Conduct and supervise stock examination to identify disease or parasites, and apply prescribed medicinal substances to control and prevent infection
• Operate and maintain cultivating and harvesting equipment
• Collect and record growth and production data
• Manage and train aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers and supervise technicians and technologists
• Maintain financial records and establish market strategies, inventory and quality control methods
• May scuba dive to inspect sea farm operations
• May design and construct pens, floating stations and collector strings or fences for sea farms.

For Express Entry your duties must match the lead statement and most of the main duties above.

Example job titles

• aquaculture manager
• aquaculture operator
• fish farm operator
• fish farmer
• fish hatchery manager
• fish hatchery operator
• fish hatchery supervisor
• mussel grower
• oyster grower
• salmon grower
• shellfish farmer
• trout farmer

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• A college diploma in aquaculture or a related field or Several years of experience in fishing or aquaculture operations are usually required.
• A commercial aquaculture or fish hatchery licence, permit or lease is required for self-employed aquaculture managers.

Similar jobs with a different code

• 85102Aquaculture support worker
• 22110Aquaculture technician