Harvest, gather, and handle oysters from oyster beds, leases, reefs, cages, baskets, bags, or other oyster harvesting areas using hands, tongs, rakes, baskets, cages, nets, or other basic shellfish harvesting equipment. Remove oysters from cages, bags, baskets, or harvesting equipment and place them into baskets, sacks, tubs, bins, coolers, or containers. Sort, count, measure, and inspect oysters as instructed to separate legal-size, marketable, undersized, broken, dead, or damaged oysters.
Load and unload oysters, baskets, sacks, cages, coolers, tools, and supplies by hand from docks, boats, trucks, storage areas, or harvesting areas. Place, retrieve, move, clean, and assist with basic maintenance of oyster cages, bags, baskets, lines, floats, markers, weights, and related harvesting equipment. Rinse, wash, clean, and remove mud, debris, shells, and fouling from oysters, cages, baskets, containers, tools, boats, docks, and work areas.
Pack, stack, store, and move harvested oysters using ice or other approved storage methods as instructed. Assist with preparing harvesting equipment before use and cleaning equipment after use. Work is performed outdoors and may involve wet, muddy, cold, hot, or variable weather conditions. The position requires standing, walking, bending, lifting, carrying, and working with basic hand tools. No education, experience, license, or certification required. Employer will provide on-the-job training.
Employment period: Nov 1, 2026 – Apr 30, 2027
