- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who cultivates and harvests shellfish by performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads marking stakes on barge, and moves barge to shellfish bed.
* Drives stakes into mud in pattern specified by shellfish grower, using sledgehammer.
* Sows spat by scattering it within staked enclosure.
* Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells of shellfish onto which spat attaches, using shovel.
* Wades in shellfish bed and digs or rakes for shellfish, using rake, fork, and spade.
* Treads in water and feels for shellfish with bare feet, gathers shellfish, and drops them into container.
* Reaches from boat with rake-tongs and gropes for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.
* Drags brail rod (pipe with series of hooks attached) behind powerboat to pull shellfish from mud.
* Rigs and lowers dredge into shellfish bed from mast and boom of powerboat, using block and tackle.
* Hoists dredge and pulls dump ring to empty catch.
* Picks out market-size shellfish from catch, and replants smaller ones.
* Packs and ices marketable shellfish in containers for shipment.
* Unloads loose shellfish from boat, using shovel.
* May be designated according to type of shellfish bed worked as Clam-Bed Worker; Oyster-Bed Worker; shellfish harvested as Fisher, Clam; Fisher, Oyster; or task performed as Clam Digger; Oyster Unloader.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Clam Tonger; Clam Treader; Fisher, Mussel; Fisher, Quahog; Fisher, Scallop; Oyster Dredger; Oyster Picker; Oyster Tonger; Oyster Worker; Scallop Dredger; Scallop Raker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises soft-shell crabs for food markets by catching crabs from sea and retaining them in tanks until they molt. Respnsibilities include:
* Catches crabs, using lines or pots.
* Sorts crabs according to stages of shell development and dumps them into open tanks containing sea water.
* Starts pumps to aerate water and maintain constant flow of sea water through tanks.
* Observes crabs to ascertain when they begin to shed their brittle outer shell.
* Holds shell being shed, when necessary, to assist emerging crab that gets hung in shell during molting.
* Gathers freshly emerged soft-shell crabs and places them in containers for shipment to market.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes marketable clams from conveyor belt or from pile on deck of clam-harvesting dredge and deposits them in containers.
* Dumps clams from containers onto worktable or deck, and sorts and packs them in containers for shipping according to species.
* May assist shellfish dredge operator in adjustment, repair, and maintenance of dredge and conveyor equipment, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks related to cultivating, growing, and harvesting or gathering shellfish, finfish, amphibians, and other marine life. Respnsibilities include:
* Stakes or fences ponds and growing areas following specified pattern to lay out planting bed.
* Sows spat on sea bottom and covers with sand and shell mixture.
* Patrols shrimp ponds and tidal pens on foot or by motorboat to detect presence of predators.
* Transfers finfish from tanks to rearing ponds, using dip net.
* Scatters food over growing area by hand or using blower.
* Wades in water or drives boat to harvest area.
* Collects marine life, using gill net, brail, shovel, or tongs.
* Rigs and lowers dredge baskets, using block and tackle, and raises to empty catch.
* Picks out marketable marine life and places in container, returning illegal catch to sea.
* Packs and ices catch for shipment.
* Unloads catch from boat deck, using conveyor, basket, or shovel.
* Strings empty oyster shells (used for growing-media) on wire or places in basket.
* Cleans ponds and tanks, and repairs screens, retaining walls, and fences.
* Removes debris, seaweed, and predators from water to maintain growing area.
* May be designated according to type of marine life worked as Clam-Bed Laborer; Fish Hatchery Laborer; Oyster-Bed Laborer; Shrimp Pond Laborer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers sponges from sea bottom, using pronged hook attached to end of pole, wading or using boat. Respnsibilities include:
* Sights sponge, using water glass (bucket or tube with transparent bottom), inserts hook into base of sponge, and pulls hook to tear sponge from its attachment.
* Lifts hook and removes sponge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers dulse from rocks at low tide and spreads it on beach to dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bleaches Irish moss, gathered by irish-moss gatherer, by pouring buckets of salt water over moss in tubs.
* Spreads moss along beach to dry and bleach.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers Irish moss from rocks by hand or by use of rake, and hauls it into boat.
* Transfers moss to beach where it is washed and bleached by irish-moss bleacher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers kelp from sea bottom, using mower (cutter equipped with oscillating knives). Respnsibilities include:
* Lowers mower into water from kelp-harvesting boat, and starts mower to cut kelp.
* Attaches grabhook of winch to kelp after kelp is dropped into bow of boat during harvesting so that kelp can be pulled back to keep load evenly distributed as kelp accumulates in boat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans sponges of foreign particles, such as shells and coral fragments, and sorts sponges according to size for packing. Respnsibilities include:
* Clips torn or irregular parts from sponge, with shears, measures size of sponge with go-not-go gauge, and tosses sponge into specified pile according to size.
* May cut sponge into specified size, using serrated knife.
Industry:Professional careers
