Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Go Deeper

This article is about this girl named Shannon Smith, who is 23 and lives in Mission Viejo, California. Smith is an aquaculture technician. She cares and feeds the aquatic animals. Such like fishes, octopus, sharks and many more other aqua-animals.

Aquaculture technicians also grow coral, design aquariums, and studying the filtration of the systems. They introduce new environments to fishes.

Smith is at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, she is working on her associate’s degree. She studies water chemistry, biology, habitat design, and animal health. Smith works at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. There she does maintenance in cleaning the tanks and checking to see if the fishes have any diseases. Smith would talk to tourist about her jobs and how to take care of a fish and feed it.

The world is covered with water with about 70 percent, the job opportunities are numerous. An aqua culturist’s yearly income is $100,000.

Smith encourages high school students to consider aquaculture. To have an interest in the ocean. She loves her work and says it never feels like being at work.

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