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Job Description

Use nets, fishing rods, traps, or other equipment to catch and gather fish or other aquatic animals from rivers, lakes, or oceans, for human consumption or other uses. May haul game onto ship.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-3011.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,740.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 520 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Fishers and Related Fishing Workers”.

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Tasks for “Hunter Skin Diver”

Share fishing expertise through activities such as writing for fishing magazines, hosting television shows, or testing and endorsing fishing equipment.
Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment such as fuel, netting, and cables.
Hire qualified crew members, and assign their duties.
Sell catches by contacting and negotiating with buyers or by sending catches to fish auctions.
Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
Estimate costs of operations and plan fishing season budgets accordingly.
Record in logbooks specifics of fishing activities such as dates, harvest areas, yields, and weather and sea conditions.
Pull and guide nets, traps, and lines onto vessels, by hand or using hoisting equipment.
Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges.
Club or gaff large fish to enable hauling them into fishing vessel.
Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.
Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.
Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.
Stand lookout for schools of fish, and for steering and engine-room watches.
Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment.
Monitor distribution of proceeds from sales of catches to ensure that crew members receive their prearranged portions.
Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.
Participate in wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.
Plan fishing operations, establishing the fish to be sought, the fishing location, the method of capture, and the duration of the trip.
Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers.
Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.
Direct fishing operations, and supervise fishing crew members.
Signal other workers to move, hoist, and position loads.
Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.
Operate rowboats, dinghies, or skiffs to transport fishers, divers, or sponge hookers or to tow and position fishing equipment.
Return undesirable or illegal catches to the water.

Related Technology & Tools

Very high frequency VHF radiotelephone systems
Marine radar navigation systems
Trawlers
Commercial fish or shark hooks
Electric windlasses
Distress flares
Lobster traps
Downriggers
Snatch blocks
Net haulers
Longline spools
Electric bottom-fishing reels
Midwater trawls
Drift nets
Marine fire extinguishers
Purse seines
Hook files
Trap harnesses
Gypsy hoists
Fixed blade knives
Jigging machines
Skiffs
Fishing spears
Longline blocks
Personal computers
Hand capstans
Fishing dredges
Chain stoppers
Cast nets
Fish transfer pumps
Slat boxes
Dogbones
Crab tongs
Anchor release hooks
Fishing poles
Gaffs
Pulse trawls
Crab nets
Hook counters
Balloon trawls
Satellite radios
Large decked fishing vessels
Power blocks
Deck winches
Knuckle-boom cranes
Life throw rings
Gillnetters
Distress flags
Stake nets
Set nets
Trammel nets
Pound nets
Undecked fishing vessels
Line haulers
Thimbles
Handlines
Crab pots
Jigs
Scuba diving equipment
Danish seines
Bait freezers
Bilge pumping systems
Drogues
Leader carts
Planers
Small decked fishing vessels
Magnetic compasses
Anchors
Bullet buoys
Emergency position-indicating radio beacons
Inflatable life rafts
Sink lines
Shrimp winches
Hydraulic windlasses
Tablet computers
Pot haulers
Commercial fishing line sinkers
Safety vests
Gill nets
Hoop nets
Groundlines
Stow nets
Pneumatic marine fenders
Dehookers
Trolling blocks
Fishing rowboats
Longline haulers
Float lines
Marine radar reflectors
Foam-filled marine fenders
Hand crimpers
Boat hooks
Marine first aid equipment
Digital spring balance scales
Pair trawls
Trollers
Wood shell blocks
Net cleaning machines
Fishing pliers
Wire rope cutters
Multibeam sonar equipment
Trotlines
Strobe lights
Toggles
Fish pots
Weir traps
Fish tag guns
Triplex trawls
Longline snaps
Searchlight sonars
Ice shovels
Mooring lines
Marine sextants
Brailers
Dip nets
Radio buoys
Radio direction finders RDF
Polyballs
Marine hard hats
Harpoons
Fishing utility knives
Commercial fishing vessel lifeboats
Otter trawls
Acorn buoys
Anchor chains
Laptop computers
Fishing dinghies
Line setters
Bait nets
Bench-mounted crimpers
Fish magnets
Fathometer sonar equipment
Scottish seines
Hydraulic capstans
Seiners
Eel traps
Fish finders
Immersion suits
Fishing scissors
Hook timers
Fishing life preservers
Lobster pots
Half-face respirators
Hand windlasses
Beach seines
Mooring buoys

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