Aqua Culture as career choice and job opportunities

Is it a good choice for me to choose a career in Aqua Culture?

Aquaculture career in itself is very demanding and if you want to opt for it then you need prepare your self as this career requires dedication, self-motivation, independence of thoughts and ideas, hard work and smart work in their operations. There are many advantages to choose a career like this and this can be a good choice for you only if you possess those qualities mentioned above. Some of the work is as follows:

1. Aquaculture farms require 24 hours monitoring and supervision as the working hours are dependent on the weather and unpredictable conditions.
2. It requires skills in business planning, accounting, marketing and operations to make their business successful.
3. It allows field work which requires resource management, research and development, extension and performing day to day responsibilities.

I would like to know more about opportunities in support industries of aquaculture?

There are various opportunities in support industries like engineering, gear design, equipment manufacture and sales. People working on it remains in direct collaboration with the specialists working in aquaculture industry as it requires them to develop and market products related to aquaculture and products that can sustain in aquatic environment.

There are opportunities as environmental laboratory technicians, pathologists and veterinarians. These people are having specialization in aquaculture or involved in facilitating the diagnostic testing for organisms living in aquatic culture. There are varieties of careers also coming up to develop the interest in study of aquaculture and marine trades. There are planning to create centers to cater the future generation requirement and to prepare students for occupations in marine trades, marine engineering and marine technology.