This job consists of a multitude of tasks which can change from day to day as the fishing demands or the Captain of the vessel sees fit. Shifts are 16+ hours per day, seven (7) days a week.
Duties may include but are not limited to:
1. Heading, cutting and gutting fish. Cleaning and cooking crab.
2. Packing the cleaned seafood into pans and loading into freezers.
3. Packaging up product after 1st freezing process and stored down in the ship's hold securely.
4. General clean-up of vessel and the vessel's warehouse in Dutch Harbor when deemed necessary by officers and factory foreman.
5. Offloading operations in town (usually Dutch Harbor, AK). This is typically done by transferring product off vessel by offload belts into shipping containers or by loading onto trampers at sea.
6. Back loading supplies. Processors will also be involved with the back loading of supplies in town such as bait, food, and fiber.