Fisheries Officer (ANZSCO 311311)

On the Regional 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 Fisheries Officer on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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).

Processing priority

Fisheries Officer isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Fisheries Officer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Fisheries Officer as a Group C occupation on the same Certificate IV field-relevance basis as most of this family, covering fisheries compliance and inspection-type work rather than aquaculture production or technical work. Full detail on the specific employment wording for this code was not separately captured beyond its Group C classification and list placement in this pass; check the live occupation page for the exact pathway before relying on this summary alone.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code sits on the Regional Occupation List only, reaching just the 494 regional-provisional visa — the narrowest reach of any code in the Primary Products Inspectors cluster alongside Quarantine Officer. There is no Skills in Demand route, no Employer Nomination and no state-nomination points-tested route under this code at all, regardless of how strong the applicant's actual fisheries-compliance experience is.

An honest read on this pathway

The fishing industry labour-agreement lane carries a meaningful number of current employers in Migratio's own register data, but that lane cannot help this specific code — Fisheries Officer has no employer-sponsored visa route to connect an interested employer to. Anyone whose plan depends on a sponsoring employer should check whether their actual duties instead fit Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician, which sits on the Core Skills Occupation List and reaches direct sponsorship.

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 Fisheries Officer 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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