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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. |
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 cultures finfish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic reptiles, amphibians, polychaete and oligochaete worms, plankton, micro-algae, seaweed, aquatic plants, live rock, sponges and other aquatic invertebrates for 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 pigments. wild caught, hatchery or nursery reared. |
Relevant government regulations, licensing and other compliance requirements may include: | biodiversity and genetically modified organisms biosecurity, translocation and quarantine Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) and other import requirements business or workplace operations, policies and practices ESD principles, environmental hazard identification, risk assessment and control fisheries or aquaculture regulations, permits and licences health and welfare of aquatic animals Indigenous land rights and cultural activities, including fishing by traditional methods OHS hazard identification, risk assessment and control. |
OHS guidelines may include: | appropriate workplace provision of first aid kits and fire extinguishers codes of practice, regulations and/or guidance notes which may apply in a jurisdiction or industry sector enterprise-specific OHS procedures, policies or standards hazard and risk assessment of workplace, maintenance activities and control measures induction or training of staff, contractors and visitors in relevant OHS procedures and/or requirements to allow them to carry out their duties in a safe manner OHS training register safe lifting, carrying and handling techniques, including manual handling, and the handling and storage of hazardous substances safe systems and procedures for outdoor work, including protection from solar radiation, fall protection, confined space entry and the protection of people in the workplace systems and procedures for the safe maintenance of property, machinery and equipment, including hydraulics and exposed moving parts the appropriate use, maintenance and storage of PPE. |
ESD principles may include: | applying animal welfare ethics and procedures control of effluents, chemical residues, contaminants, wastes and pollution control of weeds, pests, predators and diseases, stock health maintenance improving energy efficiency increasing use of renewable, recyclable and recoverable resources maintaining biodiversity by sustainable fisheries or broodstock/seedstock collection minimising noise, dust, light or odour emissions preventing live cultured or held organisms from escaping into environment reducing emissions of greenhouse gases reducing energy use reducing use of non-renewable resources undertaking environmental hazard identification, risk assessment and control undertaking facility quarantine, biosecurity and translocation of livestock and genetic material using and recycling water, and maintaining water quality |
PPE may include: | non-slip and waterproof boots (gumboots) or other safety footwear protective outdoor clothing for tropical conditions sun protection (e.g. sun hat, sunscreen and sunglasses) uniforms or overalls waterproof clothing (e.g. wet weather gear and waders). |
Quality may include: | disease history health and activity status number, density, weight and volume physical appearance, colour and appendages/fins previous reproductive performance sex size spawning condition and maturation index wild caught or cultured stock. |
Broodstock activities may include: | acclimatisation cleaning or disinfection of culture or holding equipment condition or maturation activities holding or recovery monitoring or treating health quarantine spawning induction staging or assessing maturation and cannulation. |
Spawning induction treatment may include: | chemical environmental, temperature, light, lunar cycle and atmospheric pressure hormonal special feed requirements. |
Water quality requirements of broodstock may include: | absence/presence of chemicals dissolved oxygen hardness light pH salinity temperature water flow and pressure/depth. |
Quality assessment may include: | behaviour and activity colour and shape density health, disease and/or prophylactic treatment history number uniformity. |
Progeny may include: | amphibian eggs, larvae or juveniles aquatic plants or micro-algal cells, buds, seedlings and sporophytes cell cultures crustacean post-larvae or juveniles finfish eyed eggs, fingerlings, fry, smolts or juveniles molluscan larvae, seed, spat or juveniles polyp colonies reptile eggs, hatchlings or juveniles. |
Post-hatch rearing procedures: | changing or treating water counting density culling of dead or non-viable individuals feeding or nutriment addition grading or sorting, and culling maintaining culture or holding environment within accepted parameters sampling taking visual observations transferring to clean or larger culture structure treating by medication or prophylaxis waste collection and disposal weighing and measuring. |