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Aquaculture and fisheries production managers

Not exposedExposure gradient (ILO 2025)

In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.

Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.

Exposure score
22/ 100 · ±8
050100
Average of all occupations: 30

0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.

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Change since 2023
−9
2023 classification
Not affected

What can you do?

The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.

Task by task

The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).

  • Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports41
  • Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors.30
  • Monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand28
  • Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches28
  • Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock27
  • Contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production22
  • Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries21
  • Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as vessels and nets18
  • Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment15
  • Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites15
  • Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life14
  • Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques14
  • Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks14

How much does it affect you?

Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.

For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.

  • Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports(41)
  • Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors.(30)
  • Monitoring aquaculture and fishery market activity and planning production and fishing activities to meet contract requirements and market demand(28)
  • Conferring with buyers to arrange for the sale of produce and catches(28)
  • Coordinating the selection and maintenance of brood stock(27)
  • Contracting with fishing skippers or owners of vessels and aquaculture farms for fishing and aquaculture operations, or for management of production(22)
  • Devising and coordinating activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries(21)
  • Purchasing machinery, equipment, and supplies such as vessels and nets(18)
  • Organizing operations such as maintenance of ships, boats and equipment(15)
  • Conducting and organizing aquaculture or fishery stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites(15)
  • Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life(14)
  • Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques(14)
  • Directing and monitoring the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks(14)
Your estimated exposure score
22/ 100

You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 22.)

About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).

Most affected
  • • Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, recording information such as fisheries management practices, and preparing financial and operational reports
  • • Overseeing the selection, training and performance of aquaculture or fishery workers and contractors.
Most likely to stay human
  • • Monitoring environments to maintain or improve conditions for aquatic life
  • • Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques

An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.

How many people work in this occupational group?

Share of the Production and specialised services managers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).

Production and specialised services managers
Table view
CountryProduction and specialised services managers
United Kingdom5.5% · 1,892 thousand · 2025
Estonia4.6% · 32 thousand · 2025
Ireland4.1% · 115 thousand · 2025
Iceland3.2% · 7 thousand · 2025
Croatia3.2% · 54 thousand · 2025
Malta3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025
Sweden3.0% · 158 thousand · 2025
Bulgaria2.8% · 82 thousand · 2025
Norway2.8% · 80 thousand · 2025
Belgium2.7% · 140 thousand · 2025
Latvia2.7% · 24 thousand · 2025
Hungary2.5% · 118 thousand · 2025
France2.5% · 728 thousand · 2025
Switzerland2.5% · 119 thousand · 2025
Netherlands2.4% · 238 thousand · 2025
Lithuania2.3% · 33 thousand · 2025
Poland2.2% · 381 thousand · 2025
Portugal2.1% · 109 thousand · 2025
Slovakia1.9% · 49 thousand · 2025
Austria1.9% · 84 thousand · 2025
Cyprus1.9% · 9 thousand · 2025
Czechia1.7% · 91 thousand · 2025
Italy1.4% · 341 thousand · 2025
Slovenia1.4% · 14 thousand · 2025
Germany1.3% · 569 thousand · 2025
Finland1.3% · 34 thousand · 2025
Spain1.3% · 292 thousand · 2025
Denmark1.2% · 38 thousand · 2025
Romania0.9% · 72 thousand · 2025
Greece0.9% · 38 thousand · 2025
3.85 m
Production and specialised services managers — EU27
Eurostat · 2025
1.9%
of all employed (EU27)

What do they earn?

Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Managers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.

€5,374
EU average (gross/month)
+87% compared with the average of all occupations

By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.

  1. Switzerland8,354
  2. Italy7,983
  3. Luxembourg7,683
  4. Belgium7,390
  5. Germany7,172
  6. Denmark6,654
  7. Austria6,190
  8. Ireland6,181
  9. Finland6,101
  10. Cyprus5,842
  11. Norway5,718
  12. Iceland5,653
  13. Netherlands5,508
  14. EU275,374
  15. France5,226
  16. Sweden4,960
  17. Slovenia4,808
  18. Spain4,699
  19. Czechia4,257
  20. Portugal4,203
  21. Greece4,190
  22. Malta4,128
  23. Poland4,112
  24. Romania4,078
  25. Lithuania4,031
  26. Hungary3,641
  27. Bulgaria3,559
  28. Croatia3,524
  29. Slovakia3,418
  30. Estonia3,290
  31. Latvia3,288

Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.

Outlook to 2035

Employment in the Production and specialised services managers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.

300350351201520192023202720312035

thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection

+8.8%
Change 2025→2035
+28 k
Expansion
129 k
Replacement demand
157 k
Total expected openings

Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.

Related occupations

Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?