Fishing and Hunting Workers

Fishing and Hunting Workers typically perform the following tasks: • Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments. • Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size. • Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members. • Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses. • Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas. • 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. • Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs. • Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps. • Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water. • Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle. • Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment. • Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment. • Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers. • Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps. • Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment. • Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods. • Maintain and repair trapping equipment. • Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land. • Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used. • Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.