OSCA 2024 · 841331 · Skill level 5
Aquaculture Worker: OSCA 841331
ABS OSCA 2024 v1.0 · visa lists checked 21 October 2026
Aquaculture Worker is OSCA 2024 code 841331. It corresponds to 2 ANZSCO codes (842111 and 841111). None of them is on Australia's skilled visa lists, which still use ANZSCO codes.
ANZSCO equivalent
ANZSCO codes for OSCA 841331
Skilled visa lists still use ANZSCO codes, so this is the code that decides your visa options.
ANZSCO 842111
Aquaculture Worker
Not on the skilled occupation lists.
ANZSCO 841111 · in part
Aquaculture Worker
Not on the skilled occupation lists.
The job
What an aquaculture worker does
Performs routine tasks in breeding and raising fish and other aquatic stock.
Skill level 5: Certificate I or secondary education
Main tasks
Main tasks
- Feeds and grades fish, and monitors their growth
- Assists with farm layout and constructs nets, long-lines and cages
- Checks and looks after equipment and fish housing, and operates pumps and other equipment
- Tests and checks on water quality, and removes dead or dying fish
- Harvests fish and other aquatic stock, and sorts and packs it for transportation
- Restocks pens, pools, tanks, ponds, rivers and dams with juvenile fish
- Collects and records growth, production and water quality data
- May operate lifting equipment such as forklifts and small cranes
Unit group 8413
Other occupations in Mixed Production and Aquaculture Farm Workers
Questions
OSCA 841331: common questions
What is the OSCA code for aquaculture worker?
What is the ANZSCO code for OSCA 841331?
Is Aquaculture Worker on Australia's skilled occupation lists?
Does Home Affairs use OSCA codes for visas?
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA 2024 v1.0 (CC BY 4.0); Department of Home Affairs, checked 21 October 2026. General information only, not immigration advice.
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