Creel Crew Surveyor

• Conduct dock-side interviews with anglers returning from recreational fishing trips to collect fishing activity data
• Careful handling of anglers recreational catch
• Accurately identify recreational catch, including species caught and quantity
• Collecting biological samples, such as scales, tissue samples and lengths, from selected species
• Inspecting chinook and coho salmon catch for clipped adipose fins
• Collecting heads from chinook or coho salmon with clipped adipose fins
• Documenting the number of boats returning from fishing trips passing through boat launches
• Creating legible and accurate records of information collected according to survey requirements
• Data review, correction, compilation and entry

• Successful completion of high school education
• Ability to safely conduct work around water
• Ability to safely and respectfully interact with the public at boat launches
• Ability to accurately identify salmon, groundfish and shellfish species
• Data collection experience
• Class 5 driver’s license with access to a vehicle

• Post-secondary education and past fisheries monitoring experience is an asset
• Computer literacy including experience with data entry and editing is an asset

Training will be provided