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A professional who catches fish, such as eels, salmon, and swordfish, using barbed spear. Respnsibilities include:
* Spears fish from platform built in stream or on river bank or from fishing vessel, using harpoon attached to buoy by rope, and allows fish to tire.
* Hoists fish from water, using gaff.
* Kills swordfish with club, rifle, or gaff.
* May be designated according to gear used as Fisher, Eel Spear; Gaffer; Harpooner; or according to quarry sought as Fisher, Swordfish.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with manager to determine time and place of seed planting, cultivating, feeding, and harvesting shellfish.
* Plans work schedules according to tidal levels, and availability of personnel and equipment.
* Inspects beds and ponds to ascertain the quality of seed distribution, adequacy of cultivation, and completeness of harvesting, and directs workers to correct deviations and irregularities.
* Oversees maintenance of planting, cultivating, and harvesting equipment, tidal pens, and shellfish beds.
* Trains worker to drive or operate equipment, and in methods and techniques of shellfish farming.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May assign workers to guard pens and beds against encroachment.
* May record planting and harvesting data, and keep workers' time records.
* May supervise workers engaged in farming a specific type of shellfish and be designated Supervisor, Clam-Bed; Supervisor, Oyster Farm; Supervisor, Shrimp Pond.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in trapping and spawning fish, incubating eggs, and rearing fry in fish hatchery. Respnsibilities include:
* Assigns workers in collecting, fertilizing and incubating of spawn, and transferring of fingerlings to rearing ponds and tanks.
* Oversees treatment and rearing of fingerlings.
* Observes appearance and actions of developing fish to detect diseases, and specifies medications to be added to food and water.
* Coordinates work schedule and directs workers to feed, sort, and transfer fish to designated ponds, streams, or commercial holding tanks.
* Trains workers in methods of spawning and rearing fish.
* Records number and type of fish reared, released, or sold.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in rearing food fish or tropical and exotic fish and be designated Supervisor, Commercial Fish Hatchery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who spawns and raises fish for commercial purposes. Respnsibilities include:
* Strips eggs from female fish and places eggs in moist pans.
* Adds milt stripped from male fish to fertilize eggs.
* Fills hatchery trays with fertilized eggs and places trays in incubation troughs.
* Turns valves and places baffles in troughs to adjust volume, depth, velocity, and temperature of water.
* Transfers fingerlings to rearing ponds.
* Feeds high protein foods or cereal with vitamins and minerals to fingerlings to induce growth to size desired for commercial use.
* Arranges with buyers for sale of fish.
* Removes fish from pond, using dip net.
* Counts and weighs fish.
* Loads fish into tank truck, or dresses and packs in ice for shipment.
* May perform standard tests on water samples to determine oxygen content.
* May be designated according to kind of fish raised as Trout Farmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cultivates and harvests beds of shellfish, such as clams and oysters. Respnsibilities include:
* Lays out and stakes tide flats (ground beneath shallow water near shoreline).
* Piles up stone, poles, and mud, using farm tractor and hand implements to make dikes to control water drainage at low tide.
* Removes debris by hand and levels soil with tractor and harrow.
* Sows spat by hand or with shovel or sets out strings or baskets of shells onto which spat attaches.
* Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells or transfers seeded strings or baskets to growing area.
* Rigs net or star mop (mop of heavy rope yarn) and drags it over bed behind power boat to entangle and remove shellfish predators, such as crabs and starfish.
* Walks about bed at low tide, and scoops or digs shellfish and piles them onto barge or mud sled, using pitchfork or shovel.
* Packs shellfish, according to market specifications, in containers and returns small ones to bed.
* Poles barge to wharf at high tide or pulls it, using boat.
* Drags mud sled from bed, using tractor.
* May pour oil around bed and spread oil-treated sand over bed with shovel to form chemical barrier to shellfish predators.
* May reach from boat with rake-tongs and grope for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.
* May supervise workers who cultivate and harvest bed.
* May negotiate with buyers for sale of crop.
* May be designated according to type of shellfish grown as Clam Grower; Oyster Grower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cultivates and harvests beds of shellfish, such as clams and oysters. Respnsibilities include:
* Lays out and stakes tide flats (ground beneath shallow water near shoreline).
* Piles up stone, poles, and mud, using farm tractor and hand implements to make dikes to control water drainage at low tide.
* Removes debris by hand and levels soil with tractor and harrow.
* Sows spat by hand or with shovel or sets out strings or baskets of shells onto which spat attaches.
* Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells or transfers seeded strings or baskets to growing area.
* Rigs net or star mop (mop of heavy rope yarn) and drags it over bed behind power boat to entangle and remove shellfish predators, such as crabs and starfish.
* Walks about bed at low tide, and scoops or digs shellfish and piles them onto barge or mud sled, using pitchfork or shovel.
* Packs shellfish, according to market specifications, in containers and returns small ones to bed.
* Poles barge to wharf at high tide or pulls it, using boat.
* Drags mud sled from bed, using tractor.
* May pour oil around bed and spread oil-treated sand over bed with shovel to form chemical barrier to shellfish predators.
* May reach from boat with rake-tongs and grope for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.
* May supervise workers who cultivate and harvest bed.
* May negotiate with buyers for sale of crop.
* May be designated according to type of shellfish grown as Clam Grower; Oyster Grower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates mechanical or hydraulic dredge to cultivate, transplant, and harvest marine life, such as oysters, clams, and sea grass. Respnsibilities include:
* Steers dredge to designated area, using navigational aids, such as compass and landmarks, and knowledge of tides, or is towed by other vessel.
* Fastens water pressure hoses, lifting and towing cables, and dredge baskets to dredge, using handtools.
* Primes pumps and adjusts angle of water jets and conveyor, to prepare for dredging.
* Activates dredge engine and lowers dredge baskets or hydraulic dredger to sea bottom, using hoisting boom and winch.
* Activates hydraulic dredge impeller pumps and conveyor and drags hydraulic dredger or dredge baskets along sea bottom to scoop or flush shellfish from beds.
* Inspects contents dumped from dredges onto deck to determine depth of cut into sea bottom, and adjusts water pressure or angle of basket blade to attain depth of cut desired.
* Observes flow of shellfish on conveyor and stops conveyor to prevent or clear jamming.
* Observes and listens to operation of equipment to detect malfunction and makes adjustments and minor repairs to correct operational defects.
* Attaches cutting blades or harrows to dredge and lowers to specified distance above or on sea bottom and steers dredge in diminishing circles to cultivate shellfish beds or cut sea grass.
* May record date, harvest area, and yield in logbook.
* May direct helpers in sorting of clams.
* May be designated according to type of dredge operated as Hydraulic Dredge Operator; Self-Propelled Dredge Operator; or kind of shellfish harvested as Clam Dredge Operator; Oyster Dredge Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates mechanical or hydraulic dredge to cultivate, transplant, and harvest marine life, such as oysters, clams, and sea grass. Respnsibilities include:
* Steers dredge to designated area, using navigational aids, such as compass and landmarks, and knowledge of tides, or is towed by other vessel.
* Fastens water pressure hoses, lifting and towing cables, and dredge baskets to dredge, using handtools.
* Primes pumps and adjusts angle of water jets and conveyor, to prepare for dredging.
* Activates dredge engine and lowers dredge baskets or hydraulic dredger to sea bottom, using hoisting boom and winch.
* Activates hydraulic dredge impeller pumps and conveyor and drags hydraulic dredger or dredge baskets along sea bottom to scoop or flush shellfish from beds.
* Inspects contents dumped from dredges onto deck to determine depth of cut into sea bottom, and adjusts water pressure or angle of basket blade to attain depth of cut desired.
* Observes flow of shellfish on conveyor and stops conveyor to prevent or clear jamming.
* Observes and listens to operation of equipment to detect malfunction and makes adjustments and minor repairs to correct operational defects.
* Attaches cutting blades or harrows to dredge and lowers to specified distance above or on sea bottom and steers dredge in diminishing circles to cultivate shellfish beds or cut sea grass.
* May record date, harvest area, and yield in logbook.
* May direct helpers in sorting of clams.
* May be designated according to type of dredge operated as Hydraulic Dredge Operator; Self-Propelled Dredge Operator; or kind of shellfish harvested as Clam Dredge Operator; Oyster Dredge Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to trap and spawn game fish, incubate eggs, and rear fry in fish hatchery. Respnsibilities include:
* Secures net on both banks of river to divert fish to holding pond.
* Catches ripened fish from holding pond with hand net and squeezes or slits bellies of female fish to release eggs in pail.
* Squeezes bellies of male fish to force milt over eggs, and stirs with rubber-gloved hand to fertilize eggs.
* Fills hatchery trays with fertilized eggs and places trays in incubation troughs.
* Turns valves and places baffles in troughs to adjust volume, depth, velocity, and temperature of water.
* Inspects eggs and picks out dead, infertile, and off-color eggs, using suction syringe.
* Sorts fish according to size, coloring, and species and transfers fingerlings to rearing ponds or tanks, using buckets or tank truck.
* Scatters food over surface of water by hand or activates blower that automatically scatters food over water to feed fish.
* Observes appearance and actions of developing fish to detect diseases, and adds medications to food and water as instructed by superior.
* Transfers mature fish to rivers and lakes, using tank truck.
* Records field data and prepares reports of hatchery activities.
* Drains and cleans ponds and troughs, using brushes, chemicals, and water.
* Makes minor repairs to hatchery equipment, paints buildings, and maintains grounds.
* May spawn and rear food fish or tropical and exotic fish for commercial use.
* May mark migrating fish with liquid nitrogen, using hand-operated branding device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cultivates and harvests shellfish by performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads marking stakes on barge, and moves barge to shellfish bed.
* Drives stakes into mud in pattern specified by shellfish grower, using sledgehammer.
* Sows spat by scattering it within staked enclosure.
* Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells of shellfish onto which spat attaches, using shovel.
* Wades in shellfish bed and digs or rakes for shellfish, using rake, fork, and spade.
* Treads in water and feels for shellfish with bare feet, gathers shellfish, and drops them into container.
* Reaches from boat with rake-tongs and gropes for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.
* Drags brail rod (pipe with series of hooks attached) behind powerboat to pull shellfish from mud.
* Rigs and lowers dredge into shellfish bed from mast and boom of powerboat, using block and tackle.
* Hoists dredge and pulls dump ring to empty catch.
* Picks out market-size shellfish from catch, and replants smaller ones.
* Packs and ices marketable shellfish in containers for shipment.
* Unloads loose shellfish from boat, using shovel.
* May be designated according to type of shellfish bed worked as Clam-Bed Worker; Oyster-Bed Worker; shellfish harvested as Fisher, Clam; Fisher, Oyster; or task performed as Clam Digger; Oyster Unloader.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Clam Tonger; Clam Treader; Fisher, Mussel; Fisher, Quahog; Fisher, Scallop; Oyster Dredger; Oyster Picker; Oyster Tonger; Oyster Worker; Scallop Dredger; Scallop Raker.
Industry:Professional careers
