Fishing and Hunting Workers Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.

National salary and employment

Salary data is not available for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.

Top skills

Typical tasks

• 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.
• Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.

Technology

• Catchlog Trading Catchlog
• DeerDays
• Inventory management systems
• MaxSea Time Zero Navigator NOAA
• MaxSea TIMEZERO
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• OLRAC Electronic Logbook Software Solution
• P-Sea WindPlot
• Signet Nobeltec Catch
• Strat-Tech Deer Hunting Expert
• Trimble MyTopo Terrain Navigator Pro
• Winchester Ammunition Ballistics Calculator

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