A professional who spawns and raises fish for commercial purposes. Respnsibilities include:

• Strips eggs from female fish and places eggs in moist pans.
• Adds milt stripped from male fish to fertilize eggs.
• Fills hatchery trays with fertilized eggs and places trays in incubation troughs.
• Turns valves and places baffles in troughs to adjust volume, depth, velocity, and temperature of water.
• Transfers fingerlings to rearing ponds.
• Feeds high protein foods or cereal with vitamins and minerals to fingerlings to induce growth to size desired for commercial use.
• Arranges with buyers for sale of fish.
• Removes fish from pond, using dip net.
• Counts and weighs fish.
• Loads fish into tank truck, or dresses and packs in ice for shipment.
• May perform standard tests on water samples to determine oxygen content.
• May be designated according to kind of fish raised as Trout Farmer.