Job Description:

• 1) Cultivates and harvests beds of shellfish, such as clams and oysters: Lays out and stakes tide flats.

• 2) Piles up stone, poles, and mud, using farm tractor and hand implements to make dikes to control water drainage at low tide.

• 3) Removes debris by hand and levels soil with tractor and harrow.

• 4) Sows spat by hand or with shovel or sets out strings or baskets of shells onto which spat attaches.

• 5) Covers seeded area with mixture of sand and broken shells or transfers seeded strings or baskets to growing area.

• 6) Rigs net or star mop and drags it over bed behind power boat to entangle and remove shellfish predators, such as crabs and starfish.

• 7) Walks about bed at low tide, and scoops or digs shellfish and piles them onto barge or mud sled, using pitchfork or shovel.

• 8) Packs shellfish, according to market specifications, in containers and returns small ones to bed.

• 9) Poles barge to wharf at high tide or pulls it, using boat.

• 10) Drags mud sled from bed, using tractor.

• 11) May pour oil around bed and spread oil-treated sand over bed with shovel to form chemical barrier to shellfish predators.

• 12) May reach from boat with rake-tongs and grope for shellfish by moving handles to open and close tongs.

• 13) May supervise workers who cultivate and harvest bed.

• 14) May negotiate with buyers for sale of crop.

• 15) May be designated according to type of shellfish grown as Clam Grower; Oyster Grower.