Fisheries Technician III Shellfish

Fisheries Technician III Shellfish

Fisheries

The Fisheries Technician III:
Shellfish is a full-time, 40 hours per week position reporting directly to the Fisheries Department Shellfish Ecologist:
Bivalve Lead. The Fisheries Technician III:
Shellfish will primarily assist with day-to-day functions of Shellfish Program projects including all shellfish surveys, monitoring fisheries, SCUBA surveys, water property monitoring, and other grant-specific research projects. Work is performed both in an office and outdoor field environment.

• Perform tasks related to studies of clams, clam gardens, Olympia oysters, shrimp, Dungeness and European green crab, sea cucumber, and sea urchin
• Prepare and maintain team field equipment
• Adhere to scientific protocols and survey specific methods
• Coordinate planning of schedules and staff for intertidal clam surveys, recruit volunteers
• Participate in field surveys
• Accurately identify, weigh, and measure shellfish samples
• Coordinate collection of clam samples for PSP testing
• Enter data into Access database, Excel spreadsheets, or similar
• Prepare survey data for co-manager collaboration
• Oversee the day-to-day operation of commercial geoduck and bait clam fisheries, and ceremonial and subsistence clam fisheries
• Lead planning of fisheries schedules and sellouts, including Fisheries Technician I monitor scheduling
• Assist with catch accounting
• Ensure compliance with tribal, state, and federal regulations
• Fulfill Department of Health requirements including the coordination of PSP and As testing
• Assist with water property monitoring program
• Clean, calibrate, maintain, and deploy water property monitoring equipment
• QA/QC data
• Complete basic coding of raw water property dat
• Serve as scientific diver for Shellfish Program
• Conduct scientific dives for various purposes including but not limited to, geoduck, sea cucumber, and sea urchin biomass surveys, geoduck reconnaissance, marine ecology, etc.
• Expected annual number of dives range from 12-40
• Assist with running commercial dive safety program
• Responsible for enforcing Swinomish Commercial Dive Fishery Drug Policy
• Coauthor basic protocols for field sampling methods and annual technical reports on various shellfish species
• Work may include very basic statistical analyses
• The Fisheries Technician III job duties may include new or urgent shellfish research or restoration projects for the Tribe. While unforeseen, if Fisheries Technician III is assigned work on these emerging projects, they would be responsible for field and office work related to these tasks
• Assist in Fisheries education and outreach
• Author articles for Swinomish newsletter, qyuuqs
• Participate in outreach events to educate tribal community, especially youth, about Fisheries work
• Maintain, organize, and clean gear sheds, vehicles, and boat
• Responsible for purchasing supplies, tracking and submitting receipts for most shellfish program spending
• Provide support to administrative assistant
• Serve as temporary office back-up when assistant unavailable
• Because of the Tribe’s commitment to community service and the well-being of its members, each employee may be expected to perform a wide range of office and field duties from time to time. Such duties may or may not be related to their regular responsibilities.

• Bachelor of Science degree with course work in biology, environmental science, or other related science
• Minimum of one-year work experience in a relevant field
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including:
  Excel, Access, Word, and Power Point
• Classwork or professional experience with basic coding of data and statistics
• Certified in SCUBA diving
• Minimum rescue diver certification from accredited institution
• 40+…