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Fishing and Hunting Workers
Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.Mostly human for now
- 02Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.Mostly human for now
- 04Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.Mostly human for now
- 05Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.Mostly human for now
- 06Select, 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.Mostly human for now
- 07Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.Mostly human for now
- 08Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.Mostly human for now
- 09Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.Mostly human for now
- 10Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss4%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 16% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 67% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
- Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
- Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.