Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician (ANZSCO 311114)

On the Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician on?

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

• Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
• Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician comes from:

• Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician as a Group C occupation using the shorter employment wording found on a handful of this family's pages — "at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years," without the explicit post-qualification or 20-hours-a-week framing used elsewhere in the family. Its own occupation page excludes Animal Husbandry Technician and Agricultural Technician by name.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code sits on the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching Employer Nomination and Skills in Demand only — no training visa, no regional-provisional route. A separate code in the neighbouring 3112 unit group, Fisheries Officer, covers fisheries-related inspection and compliance work rather than aquaculture technical work, sits on the Regional Occupation List instead, and reaches only the 494 regional-provisional visa. The two are easy to conflate on job title alone.

An honest read on this pathway

The fishing industry labour-agreement lane, separately confirmed in Migratio's own register data, carries a meaningful number of current employers, which makes the employer-sponsorship route this code reaches a genuinely populated one rather than a theoretical list entry. Fisheries Officer, by contrast, has no employer-sponsorship route at all under its own code — anyone doing inspection or compliance work specifically should check which of the two actually describes their duties before nominating either.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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• Agricultural and Agritech Technician (311112)
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