Meet three women
who have embarked
on careers in the
aquaculture industry.
This program profiles
Sondra Lambie, a
nursery technician who
cultivates large
shellfish crops; Camille
Wiencke, a fish health technician who cares for
farm-raised Chinook salmon; and Nancy Émard, a
trout farm owner who sells about 100,000 fish annually. Remarks from
co-workers and supervisors provide additional layers to the descriptions of each
job. View a preview video clip and read below for descriptions of each segment,
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When nursery technician Sondra Lambie
was growing up, she did a lot of fishing
and camping with her Dad and really
enjoyed the outdoors. She also tended to
be the messiest kid in the family. This was
her "informal training" for the work at
Island Scallops, where Sondra nurtures a
variety of shellfish until they're ready to go
out to farm sites. There's a lot of hands-on work; it can get quite messy and
really wet.
Sondra gained her first experience in aquaculture
while still in high school. There, she was a
member of the salmon enhancement club which
sparked her interest in a career in aquaculture. “I
love the fact that I get to raise animals, I like
looking under the microscope and seeing these
live things, this life that I am basically creating and nurturing along."
Sondra loves working in aquaculture because of
the beautiful rural areas it puts her in. She lives right by the ocean and her
“backyard is endless.”
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While going to work for some people can involve
traffic jams and parking problems, that's not the
case for fish health technician Camille Wiencke.
She goes to work by boat.
Camille's job is to look after the health of the
Chinook salmon at a fish farm. Camille doesn't
actually treat the fish - that's a veterinarian's job
- but she monitors and checks the salmon regularly to make sure that there are
no problems. “Don't think that going to school will teach you everything. Make
sure that you try to spend a couple of months on a farm.”
Aquaculture has given Camille an opportunity to
travel and gain international work experience. She
has been exposed to many different species in
France, Scotland, New Zealand, Turkey and now in
Canada.
Camille really enjoys the diversity of her job. She
spends a lot of time working outside in the fresh
air. However, when the west coast becomes the
"wet coast", Camille's indoor tasks are a welcome
diversion.
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Trout farm owner Nancy Émard sells about
a hundred thousand fish every year,
mostly to sports fishing outfitters who
charge the public to fish in their lakes.
Running a successful trout farm is no small
accomplishment. Nancy chops the wood to
heat the building where her stock is raised,
feeds the fish in the ponds year round and
monitors their health, then harvests and delivers the final product and deals
with all related business matters as well.
Nancy runs the farm by herself. In winter, she usually works 10 hours a day,
but in summer, her days can be as long as 18 hours. Any time of the day or
night, she has to be ready to respond to anything that goes wrong. There can
be very little time between fixing a problem and
losing an entire pond of fish.
Fish don't talk, but Nancy understands what they
need or want just by looking at them. She gets a
real sense of accomplishment raising trout and
customer satisfaction is her biggest reward.
“Working on a fish farm is a lifestyle. It's a quiet
life, but it's a busy life.”
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