62 Market-oriented Skilled Forestry, Fishery and Hunting Workers

Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests. Tasks performed usually include; assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools, and establishing and caring for forest stands; locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber; operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs; shaping rough wooden products from logs at a felling site; stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers; keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment; controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands, using manual tools and chemicals; operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated; collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations; training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators. Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit group: 6210 Forestry and Related Workers.

Fishery workers, hunters and trappers breed and raise fish, harvest and catch fish, and hunt and trap animals, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets. Tasks performed usually include: breeding, raising and cultivating fish, mussels, oysters and other forms of aquatic life as cash crops or for release into freshwater or saltwater; monitoring environments to ensure maintenance of optimum conditions for aquatic life; cleaning, freezing, icing or salting catch on- or offshore, and preparing fish and other products for shipment; renting or investing in and maintaining buildings, tanks, machinery, fishing vessels and other equipment; preparing and repairing nets and other fishing gear and equipment; operating fishing vessels to, from and at fishing grounds; baiting, setting, operating and hauling in fishing gear; setting traps to catch mammals, birds or reptiles; delivering or marketing products; supervising and training other workers. Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit groups: 6221 Aquaculture Workers 6222 Inland and Coastal Waters Fishery Workers 6223 Deep-sea Fishery Workers 6224 Hunters and Trappers.