Fishing and Hunting Workers

Core Tasks

1. Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.
2. Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land.
3. Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.
4. Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
5. Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured.
6. Maintain and repair trapping equipment.
7. Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers.
8. Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.
9. Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
10. Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.
11. Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
12. Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.
13. Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set.
14. Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation.
15. Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.
16. 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.
17. Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges.
18. Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.
19. Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers.
20. Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
21. Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages.
22. Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods.
23. Wash and sort pelts according to species, color, and quality.
24. Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
25. Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.
26. Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey.
27. Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment.

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