Job Description:

• 1) Assembles and repairs nets on shore and aboard ship: Assembles, ties, and adjusts various webbing material, floats, weights, rings, and ropes to make gill nets, purse seines, reef nets, and trawls, using knife and twine-filled bobbin shuttle.

• 2) Hoists net into ship's rigging to dry after fishing operations, using block and tackle, and repairs holes and tears in webbing.

• 3) Gives direction to workers engaged in taking down nets.

• 4) May retrieve lost nets from water.

• 5) May participate in fishing.