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oyster culturist
A professional who cultivates and harvests beds of shellfish, such as clams and oysters. Respnsibilities include:
- Lays out and stakes tide flats (ground beneath shallow water near shoreline).
- Piles up stone, poles, and mud, using farm tractor and hand implements to make dikes to control water drainage at low tide.
- Removes debris by hand and levels soil with tractor and harrow.
- Sows spat by hand or with shovel or sets out strings or baskets of shells onto which spat attaches.
- Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells or transfers seeded strings or baskets to growing area.
- Rigs net or star mop (mop of heavy rope yarn) and drags it over bed behind power boat to entangle and remove shellfish predators, such as crabs and starfish.
- Walks about bed at low tide, and scoops or digs shellfish and piles them onto barge or mud sled, using pitchfork or shovel.
- Packs shellfish, according to market specifications, in containers and returns small ones to bed.
- Poles barge to wharf at high tide or pulls it, using boat.
- Drags mud sled from bed, using tractor.
- May pour oil around bed and spread oil-treated sand over bed with shovel to form chemical barrier to shellfish predators.
- May reach from boat with rake-tongs and grope for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.
- May supervise workers who cultivate and harvest bed.
- May negotiate with buyers for sale of crop.
- May be designated according to type of shellfish grown as Clam Grower; Oyster Grower.
- Jenis Kata: noun
- Industri / Domain: Karier profesional
- Kategori: Jabatan pekerjaan
- Company: U.S. DOL
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(United States of America)