Agricultural and fishing trades n.e.c.
Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of agricultural, practical conservation activities, and fishing tasks not elsewhere classified in minor group 511: Agricultural and related trades.
Task Bundle Breakdown
How AI interacts with this occupation's task bundle
Task-by-Task Breakdown
Every task scored individually — sorted highest to lowest AI exposure
establishes and maintains forest nurseries, forestry and woodland, and diagnoses and treats diseased trees
AI image recognition tools (e.g. iNaturalist, Pl@ntNet) can assist with disease diagnosis in trees, but establishing nurseries, planting, and physical woodland management remain hands-on work.
monitors and maintains the level of wildfowl on public and private estates
AI-assisted camera trap analysis and drone imagery tools can help count and monitor wildfowl populations, but active monitoring, habitat management, and on-the-ground intervention remain human tasks.
manages areas of the countryside and the wider environment, carries out practical conservation activities and assists in promoting awareness of the natural environment
AI tools like ChatGPT can help draft conservation awareness materials and reports, and remote sensing AI can assist with environmental monitoring, but practical conservation work and community engagement are inherently human.
nets river fish and feeds and maintains them in spawning pens, cultivates and harvests oysters, mussels and clams on natural and artificial beds, treats water and diseased fish, and empties and cleans outdoor tanks
AI can assist with water quality monitoring data analysis and disease identification via image recognition tools, but the physical netting, feeding, harvesting, and tank cleaning require hands-on labour.
patrols a designated area of the countryside to monitor damage, erosion, access to rights of way and the state of footpaths and other facilities, and carries out remedial maintenance work as necessary
AI-powered mapping and GIS tools can help plan patrol routes and log damage reports, but the physical patrolling, inspection, and remedial maintenance work cannot be automated.
navigates and maintains shipping vessels, assists with the shooting, hauling and repairing of fishing nets, prepares, lays and empties baited pots, and guts, sorts and stows fish
AI-assisted navigation tools like chart plotters can help with routing, but shooting nets, hauling, repairing gear, gutting and stowing fish are entirely physical, skilled tasks AI cannot perform.
ROI Calculator
Agricultural and fishing trades n.e.c.
This is not a pay rise — it's 90 hours of productive capacity that AI could return to you, valued at your current rate.
The portion of your current salary tied to tasks AI can automate or augment. Not a prediction of job loss — a signal of where your role is changing fastest.
How is this calculated?▾
Task weights — each task is weighted by its O*NET frequency rating. Where frequency data is absent, equal weighting is applied.
AI time reduction — tasks scored as "AI Automates" assume 80% time saving; "AI Assists" assumes 40%; "Human-Led" assumes 5%.
Salary equivalent — annual hours saved × (salary ÷ 1,800 working hours/year).
Value at risk — salary × share of role time in AI-automate or AI-assist tasks.
Figures are indicative estimates for planning purposes, not guarantees of productivity gain or job loss risk.