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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Commercial Fishermen

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.

Fishing and Hunting Workers · O*NET 45-3031.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

2 of 13tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

7 matched to the tools fishing and hunting workers use. Showing 7.

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Excel

    MCP server

  • Excel

    Skill

  • Microsoft 365 Excel

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • PowerOffice

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Spreadsheet

    Skill

  • Spreadsheetcom

    App

The tools this job actually uses

13 documented for this occupation. Showing 13, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Catchlog Trading Catchlog
  • DeerDays
  • Inventory management systems
  • MaxSea Time Zero Navigator NOAA
  • MaxSea TIMEZERO
  • OLRAC Electronic Logbook Software Solution
  • P-Sea WindPlot
  • Signet Nobeltec Catch
  • Strat-Tech Deer Hunting Expert
  • Trimble MyTopo Terrain Navigator Pro
  • Winchester Ammunition Ballistics Calculator

What this job involves

30 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
  2. Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers.
  3. Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
  4. Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.
  5. Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
  6. Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.
  7. Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
  8. Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods.
  9. Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.
  10. Maintain and repair trapping equipment.
  11. Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.
  12. Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land.
  13. Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
  14. Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.
  15. Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.
  16. Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.
  17. Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set.
  18. Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation.
  19. Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured.
  20. Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers.
  21. Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.
  22. Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
  23. Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.
  24. Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges.
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