Fishing and Hunting Workers

Key Responsibilities

• Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.
• Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods.
• Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
• Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured.
• Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges.
• Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey.
• Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land.
• Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers.
• Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation.
• Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
• Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment.
• Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.
• Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages.
• Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers.
• Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
• Maintain and repair trapping equipment.
• Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.
• Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
• Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.
• Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.
• Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.
• Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.
• Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.
• Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
• Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.
• Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment.
• Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
• Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.
• Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set.