The Farm Manager is involved with the following activities:
Organising sale of live products
Centralising information on stocks,
Looking after the prices, orders, fish availabilities
Deciding what to keep and what to sell
Organising the production (if part of the company)
Supervising the loading of trucks in the morning, he/she may help out especially when employees are on holidays
Taking care of specific orders, performing office duties, phoning the customers regularly, visiting the clients/customers
Preparing and following up on all administrative files: insurance, financing, etc.
Deciding on purchases especially on fish food
Deciding on production purchases (materials, juveniles)
General management of the company: forecasts (sales, turnover, calendar, etc.) production management (juveniles), selection of fish, workforce organisation
Delegation of work to assistants such as orders, payments, invoices.
Relation to Aquaculture
Within the aquaculture sector, this Farm Manager is concerned with the production of salmonids, rainbow trout, brown trout and char. The farm sells dead and live products to supermarkets, fish plant owners and wholesalers. The average production is 600Tper year. In France, the size of this farm is considered a medium to large aquaculture enterprise.
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