62 - Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers

Description 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 Alternative titles ISCO Group 621 Sources ESCO

Description 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 Alternative titles ISCO Group 622 Sources ESCO