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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
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. | Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments. | |||
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Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used. | ||||
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Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment; and perform minor repairs. | ||||
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Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice. | ||||
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Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size. | ||||
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Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment. | ||||
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Return undesirable or illegal catches to the water. | ||||
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Pull and guide nets, traps, and lines onto vessels, by hand or using hoisting equipment. | ||||
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Direct fishing operations, and supervise fishing crew members. | ||||
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Signal other workers to move, hoist, and position loads. | ||||
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Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts. | ||||
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Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment such as fuel, netting, and cables. | ||||
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Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, and/or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, and/or dredges. | ||||
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Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers. | ||||
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Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses. | ||||
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Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water. | ||||
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Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps. | ||||
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Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment. | ||||
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Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, and/or tackle. | ||||
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Hire qualified crew members, and assign their duties. | ||||
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Plan fishing operations, establishing the fish to be sought, the fishing location, the method of capture, and the duration of the trip. | ||||
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Stand lookout for schools of fish, and for steering and engine-room watches. | ||||
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Operate rowboats, dinghies, and/or skiffs to transport fishers, divers, and/or sponge hookers; or to tow and position fishing equipment. | ||||
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Sell catches by contacting and negotiating with buyers or by sending catches to fish auctions. | ||||
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Club or gaff large fish to enable hauling them into fishing vessel. | ||||
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Monitor distribution of proceeds from sales of catches to ensure that crew members receive their prearranged portions. | ||||
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Record in logbooks specifics of fishing activities such as dates, harvest areas, yields, and weather and sea conditions. | ||||
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Estimate costs of operations and plan fishing season budgets accordingly. | ||||
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Share fishing expertise through activities such as writing for fishing magazines, hosting television shows, or testing and endorsing fishing equipment. | ||||
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Participate in wildlife management, disease control, and research activities. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Fishers and Related Fishing Workers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Food Production | Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Transportation | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. | |||
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Geography | Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Telecommunications | Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Abalone Fisherman | |||
Albacore Fishing Boat Crewman | |||
Bait Man | |||
Beachman | |||
Billet Cutter | |||
Blue Crabber | |||
Boat Deckhand | |||
Boat Officer | |||
Boat Puller | |||
Captain | |||
Cat Swamper | |||
Catcher | |||
Chain Person | |||
Chain Puller | |||
Chainer | |||
Choker | |||
Choker Hooker | |||
Chummer | |||
Chute Greaser | |||
Chute Tender | |||
Clam Digger | |||
Clam Dredge Boat Captain | |||
Clam Dredger | |||
Clam Picker | |||
Clam Sorter | |||
Clipper | |||
Commercial Crabber | |||
Commercial Fisher | |||
Commercial Fisherman | |||
Commercial Fishing Vessel Operator | |||
Commercial Ocean Clammer | |||
Commercial Shrimping Captain | |||
Crab Catcher | |||
Crab Fisher | |||
Crab Fisherman | |||
Crabber | |||
Crew Member | |||
Cruiser | |||
Deckhand | |||
Deep Sea Diver | |||
Derrick Follower | |||
Digger | |||
Diver | |||
Diving Fisher | |||
Drag Seiner | |||
Dulser | |||
Eeler | |||
First Mate | |||
Fish Pitcher | |||
Fish Seiner | |||
Fish Tender | |||
Fish Trapper | |||
Fish, Frog, or Oyster Farmer | |||
Fisherman | |||
Fisherman Helper | |||
Fishing Boat Captain | |||
Fishing Vessel Captain | |||
Fishing Vessel Deckhand | |||
Fishing Vessel Mate | |||
Fishing Vessel Operator | |||
Fishing Worker | |||
Frog Catcher | |||
Frog Farmer | |||
Gaffman | |||
Gunner | |||
Harpooner | |||
Hook Tender | |||
Hooker | |||
Hooker On | |||
Hooker Up | |||
Hookman | |||
Hunter Skin Diver | |||
Irish Moss Bleacher | |||
Irish Moss Gatherer | |||
Kelp Cutter | |||
Kelp Gatherer | |||
Landing Worker | |||
Line Fisher | |||
Lobster Catcher | |||
Lobster Fisherman | |||
Lobster Man | |||
Lobsterman | |||
Menhaden Fishing Crew Member | |||
Menhaden Vessel Pilot | |||
Moss Bleacher | |||
Moss Gatherer | |||
Mule Rider | |||
Net Fisher | |||
Net Mender | |||
Net Repairer | |||
Netter | |||
Ocean Clam Boat Captain | |||
Otter Trawler Boatswain | |||
Oyster Culler | |||
Oyster Dredger | |||
Oyster Fisherman | |||
Oyster Floater | |||
Oyster Harvester | |||
Oyster Picker | |||
Oyster Planter | |||
Oyster Tonger | |||
Oysterman | |||
Pearl Digger | |||
Pearl Fisherman | |||
Pilot | |||
Planter | |||
Pot Fisher | |||
Purse Seiner | |||
Quahogger | |||
Roller | |||
Salmon Gillnet Vessel Operator | |||
Salmon Troll Fisher | |||
Scallop Dredger | |||
Scalloper | |||
Sea Shell Gatherer | |||
Seafood Fisherman | |||
Seaman | |||
Seaweed Harvester | |||
Second Mate | |||
Second Officer | |||
Shell Fisherman | |||
Shellfish Bed Worker | |||
Shellfish Dredge Operator | |||
Shellfish Grower | |||
Shrimp Trawler | |||
Shrimp Trawler Captain | |||
Shrimper | |||
Shrimping Boat Captain | |||
Skiff Operator | |||
Skipper | |||
Spear Fisher | |||
Sponge Clipper | |||
Sponge Fisherman | |||
Sponge Hooker | |||
Sternman | |||
Striker | |||
Terrapin Fisher | |||
Third Mate | |||
Tonger | |||
Trawler | |||
Troller | |||
Tuna Purse Seiner | |||
Underwater Hunter Trapper | |||
Waterman | |||
Weir Fisher | |||
Weir Fisherman | |||
Whale Fisherman | |||
Wild Oyster Harvester | |||
Wire Web Worker | |||
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