Aquaculture workers
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.
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.
Work out your own score ↓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).
- Delivering or marketing products56
- Collecting and recording growth, production and environmental data44
- Supervising and training aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.28
- Conducting and supervising stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites17
- Monitoring environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life15
- Breeding, raising and cultivating fish, mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater14
- Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques14
- Renting or investing in buildings, equipment and machinery, and purchasing food and other supplies14
- Cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on- or offshore, and preparing fish and other products for shipment13
- Maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, boats and other equipment12
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.
- Delivering or marketing products(56)
- Collecting and recording growth, production and environmental data(44)
- Supervising and training aquaculture and fish hatchery support workers.(28)
- Conducting and supervising stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites(17)
- Monitoring environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life(15)
- Breeding, raising and cultivating fish, mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater(14)
- Directing and monitoring trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques(14)
- Renting or investing in buildings, equipment and machinery, and purchasing food and other supplies(14)
- Cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on- or offshore, and preparing fish and other products for shipment(13)
- Maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, boats and other equipment(12)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 22.)
About 10% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Delivering or marketing products
- • Collecting and recording growth, production and environmental data
- • Maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, boats and other equipment
- • Cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on- or offshore, and preparing fish and other products for shipment
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 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers |
|---|---|
| Iceland | 0.9% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.5% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.4% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.4% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.4% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.3% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.3% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.3% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.3% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.3% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.2% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.2% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.2% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.2% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.2% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.2% · 46 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 0.1% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.1% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 0.1% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.1% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.1% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.1% · 36 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.1% · 18 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.1% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.1% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.0% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers). 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.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland3,810
- Denmark3,077
- Norway2,863
- Luxembourg2,596
- Ireland2,457
- EU272,404
- Germany2,358
- Sweden2,193
- Finland2,149
- Italy2,137
- Netherlands2,083
- France1,931
- Spain1,780
- Slovenia1,689
- Malta1,516
- Greece1,475
- Latvia1,454
- Estonia1,427
- Poland1,425
- Lithuania1,398
- Czechia1,365
- Croatia1,348
- Romania1,348
- Cyprus1,311
- Slovakia1,189
- Portugal1,137
- Hungary1,120
- Bulgaria777
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 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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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?