Alligator breeder - Salary and Career
Aquatic Animal Breeders

Alligator breeder - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They handle and feed aquatic animals. They control the aquatic environment, monitor and build aquatic facilities. They organize breeding of aquatic animals and take care of their sanity. They plan breeding, benefit and commercialize aquatic animals.

How much does an Alligator breeder earn

A Alligator breeder earns between $1.370 and $2.066 per month, with an average monthly salary of $1.487 and a median salary of $1.500 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 4 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Alligator breeder

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 1.487 17.838 372 7
1º Quartile 1.370 16.440 343 6
Median Salary 1.500 18.000 375 7
3º Quartile 1.576 18.912 394 7
Higher Salary 2.066 24.798 517 9


Professional job categories

  • Agricultural, forestry and fisheries workers
    • fishermen and forestry extractors
      • fishermen and hunters
        • aquatic animal breeders

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Main workplaces

Aquatic Animal Breeders these occupations are performed by workers with a formal contract, employed in nurseries. Only the mussel breeder works on his own. The work is in a team, with permanent supervision. Mussel and turtle farmers are subject to occasional supervision. The work is carried out in the open, during the day. Shrimp, alligator, mussel, oyster and fish farmers are subject to climate variation. Shrimp, mussel, oyster and fish farmers spend long periods in the water to perform their duties.


What does it take to work in the field of Aquatic Animal Breeders

Schooling for all occupations is at elementary level. For alligator, mussel and chelonian breeders, access is free, with no previous experience required. For shrimp, oyster, fish and frog farmers, the full exercise of the activities requires a year of experience. No professional qualification is required, except for mussel and fish farmers, who complete up to two hundred hours of basic professional training.


Functions and activities of Alligator breeder

Aquatic Animal Breeders must:

  • commercialize aquatic animals;
  • handling water animals;
  • build water facilities;
  • feeding aquatic animals;
  • care for the health of aquatic animals;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • building water facilities;
  • organize reproduction of aquatic animals;
  • caring for the health of aquatic animals;
  • benefit aquatic animals;
  • feed aquatic animals;
  • handling aquatic animals;
  • control aquatic environment;
  • monitor aquatic installations;
  • plan aquatic animal breeding;
  • plan aquatic animal husbandry;
  • monitor aquatic facilities;
  • monitor water facilities;
  • trade aquatic animals;
  • building aquatic facilities;
  • build aquatic facilities;

  • Activities

    • build mats;
    • repair networks and screens;
    • check feed quantity in stocks and silos;
    • casting shrimp;
    • grind fish;
    • disclose products in the media;
    • examine behavior of aquatic animals;
    • control air temperature and humidity;
    • renew water from ponds, tanks and stalls;
    • killing fish by heat shock;
    • clear ponds and tanks;
    • collect mussels;
    • improvise in adverse situations;
    • fishing fish;
    • weighing animals;
    • releasing rockets;
    • harvesting frogs;
    • install filters;
    • assist induction of reproduction by application of hormones;
    • brush trays and screens;
    • build feeders;
    • collect plankton;
    • collecting oysters;
    • killing turtles;
    • untap turtles;
    • define work team;
    • pack frogs;
    • identify the sex of alligators and turtles;
    • scaling area of cultivation;
    • repair nets and screens;
    • introduce oyster larvae collectors on mats;
    • pack shrimp;
    • transport aquatic animals for commercialization;
    • building nurseries;
    • repair channels;
    • determine production standard;
    • build tanks;
    • monitor visits to aquatic facilities;
    • work as a team;
    • return oysters in sieges;
    • applying medication topically;
    • sell products at fairs, exhibitions and commercial establishments;
    • repair dikes;
    • identify natural resources;
    • check tray markers;
    • build bays;
    • ozonize water;
    • install protective screens;
    • mixing eggs and semen;
    • pack oysters;
    • mate breeding frogs in pens;
    • repair longline;
    • grow plants to feed turtles;
    • incubate eggs;
    • disinfect feeders and nets;
    • grow plankton;
    • scaling crop area;
    • fillet fish;
    • research consumer market for aquatic animals;
    • weighing alligators;
    • count animals;
    • shrimp fillet;
    • deposit spawning frogs in hatching tanks;
    • launch feed in ponds;
    • calculate daily feed consumption;
    • slaughter alligators;
    • pack fish;
    • have manual dexterity;
    • set grow place;
    • providing environmental impact study;
    • collect oyster larvae;
    • supervise points of sale;
    • collect spawn of frogs;
    • shim ponds and tanks;
    • assist in the selection of sires and breeders;
    • define machinery and equipment;
    • control water oxygen level;
    • isolate animals for treatment and quarantine;
    • control water temperature;
    • improvise in adverse situations;
    • plow nurseries;
    • clear enclosures, poles and longline;
    • measure animals;
    • distribute feed in feeders;
    • identify sick animals;
    • check amount of feed in stocks and silos;
    • provide fasting for fish, frogs, shrimp and alligators;
    • take the skin of fish, frogs and alligators;
    • supervise feeding times;
    • contact producers for partnerships;
    • slaughter shrimp by thermal shock;
    • control water turbidity;
    • classify animals;
    • prepare feed;
    • clear ponds and ponds;
    • remove predators, competitors and dead animals;
    • introduce mussel larvae collectors;
    • install waterworks;
    • install theft protection system;
    • repair nets and screens;
    • collect alligator eggs;
    • set breeding system;
    • classify animals;
    • sterilize ponds, tanks and stalls;
    • calculate project cost and benefit;
    • control water ph;
    • control soil ph;
    • pack alligators;
    • killing frogs;
    • arrange project development;
    • research input supplier market;
    • clean mussels;
    • buy feed;
    • repair gates;
    • building longlines;
    • control water salinity;
    • pack mussels;
    • applying medication orally;
    • plowing nurseries;
    • show sensitivity to aquatic animals;
    • anesthetize frogs and alligators by thermal shock;
    • applying medicines to fish by dipping;
    • adding brine shrimp cysts in tanks;
    • fertilize ponds;
    • install electrical system;
    • debug oysters;
    • build net tank;
    • have physical strength to repair water facilities;
    • define aquatic species;
    • assistant to remove eggs and semen by extrusion;
    • diluting medicines in water;
    • transferring animals between tanks, ponds and nets;
    • select oyster larvae;
    • build nurseries;
    • clean ponds, ponds and stalls;
    • provide fasting of fish, frogs, shrimp and alligators;
    • negotiate prices;
    • build siege;
    • settle ponds with larvae;


    Sectors that hire Alligator breeder the most in the job market

    • retail trade in used motor vehicle parts and accessories
    • alligator breeding




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