Specified Skilled Worker (ii)
The Fishery and Aquaculture Field

Jobs catching fish and raising fish

Jobs

• Fishery
  Assisting managers who supervise and direct operations, instructing workers, and managing work processes related to manufacturing and production and repair of fishing gear, search for marine animals and plants, operation of fishing gear and machinery, capture of marine animals and plants, processing and storage of catch, ensuring health and safety.
• Aquaculture industry
  Assisting managers, instructing workers, and managing work processes related to production, repair and management of aquaculture materials, breed management, collection (harvesting) and processing of aquaculture animals and plants, ensuring health and safety, etc.

Human Resources standards

Skill level

No.2 Fishing industry skills proficiency Test and the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (N3 or higher)

Work experience

• Fishery
  Applicants must have work experience as an assistant to someone who supervises and directs fishing operations or as someone who supervises workers while performing work and managing work processes aboard a fishing vessel registered under the Fishing Boat Act (Act No. 178 of 1950).
• Aquaculture industry
  Applicants must have work experience as an assistant to someone who manages aquaculture operations or as someone who manages workers while performing work and managing work processes in a workplace where aquaculture operations are carried out in accordance with the Fishery Act (Act No. 267 of 1949) and the Act on the Promotion of Inland Fisheries (Act No. 103 of 2014).

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