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Career: Hunters and Trappers
Job Description
Hunt and trap wild animals for human consumption, fur, feed, bait, or other purposes.
Job Tasks
Importance %age |
Task Description |
100
|
Maintain and repair trapping equipment. |
100
|
Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps. |
100
|
Travel on foot, or by using vehicles or equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas. |
100
|
Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation. |
97
|
Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin-sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers. |
97
|
Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods. |
97
|
Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured. |
97
|
Mix baits for attracting animals. |
94
|
Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities. |
91
|
Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set. |
91
|
Wash and sort pelts according to species, color, and quality. |
88
|
Trap and capture quarry dead or alive for identification, relocation, or sale, using baited, scented, or camouflaged traps, snares, cages, or nets. |
84
|
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. |
81
|
Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey. |
81
|
Decide where to set traps, using grid maps and aerial maps of hunting areas. |
72
|
Pack pelts in containers, load containers onto trucks, and transport pelts to processing plants or to public auctions. |
66
|
Cut walk tracks for better access to traps and bait stations. |
47
|
Remove designated parts such as ears or tails from slain quarry as evidence for killing bounty, using knives. |
47
|
Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages. |
47
|
Cure pelts with salt and boric acid. |
41
|
Publicize hunting activities by writing for outdoor magazines or by making videos of their hunts. |
28
|
Train dogs for hunting. |
Work Activities
Importance %age |
Activity Description |
78
|
Handling and Moving Objects
|
72
|
Performing General Physical Activities
|
57
|
Getting Information
|
55
|
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
|
54
|
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
|
53
|
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
|
50
|
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
|
50
|
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
|
48
|
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
|
47
|
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
|
47
|
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
|
47
|
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
|
47
|
Thinking Creatively
|
46
|
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
|
46
|
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
|
46
|
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
|
46
|
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
|
43
|
Training and Teaching Others
|
43
|
Coaching and Developing Others
|
42
|
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
|
39
|
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
|
35
|
Documenting/Recording Information
|
35
|
Scheduling Work and Activities
|
34
|
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
|
34
|
Analyzing Data or Information
|
33
|
Selling or Influencing Others
|
33
|
Developing Objectives and Strategies
|
32
|
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
|
29
|
Performing Administrative Activities
|
26
|
Processing Information
|
25
|
Controlling Machines and Processes
|
25
|
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
|
22
|
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
|
20
|
Assisting and Caring for Others
|
17
|
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
|
17
|
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
|
16
|
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
|
14
|
Interacting With Computers
|
11
|
Developing and Building Teams
|
9
|
Staffing Organizational Units
|
6
|
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
|