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Fishing and Hunting Workers — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

Not published

Employment

Not published

Typical education

Less than a High School Diploma

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

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.

O*NET code
45-3031.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
None

Typical 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.

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Most important skills

  • Coordination3.1
  • Judgment and Decision Making3.1
  • Critical Thinking3.1
  • Speaking3.0
  • Time Management2.9
  • Monitoring2.9
  • Active Listening2.8
  • Complex Problem Solving2.8
  • Learning Strategies2.8
  • Instructing2.8
  • Reading Comprehension2.8
  • Management of Personnel Resources2.6

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Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 4 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

4

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Critical Thinking3.12.9Not selected2.9
Coordination3.12.8Not selected2.8
Speaking3.02.4Not selected2.4
Judgment and Decision Making3.12.3Not selected2.3

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.