Job Description:

• 1) Lays out and cuts pattern, and fabricates trawl nets, using handtools and prefabricated net materials: Draws diagram to lay out parts for net, computing dimensions in number of meshes required along each seam.

• 2) Lays out patterns for net parts on paper, using rule and pencil or marking crayon.

• 3) Cuts patterns with scissors.

• 4) Stretches netting materials on table or floor and cuts net parts with scissors, following patterns.

• 5) Hangs net parts on pins along wall, over frames, or holds seams together with hands and toes to align seams.

• 6) Threads twine, wound on shuttles, through adjacent meshes of parts and ties half-hitch knots around knots of mesh to secure seam.

• 7) Hangs net to metering lines.

• 8) Similarly attaches prefabricated bag to truncated end of net.