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Published on Feb 07 2025

Deckhands

$20.32  per hour
Visa required: H-2B
From Oct 1, 2024 to Jul 15, 2025

Employer

4005 20th St.
Texas City, TX 77590
United States

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Job description

Attach apparatus devices to cable, boom & hoist. Load/unload equip & supplies. Attach nets & lines, haul in, sort, clean catch, culling oysters, transplant oysters, store, unload oysters. Wash deck, equipment, cooler, and cabin. Sort and clean oysters and return undesirable and illegal oysters to bay. Place PVC pipe and/or oyster markers in private oyster leases. Transplant oysters/shells/rocks. Secures and removes vessel's docking lines to and from dock and other vessels. Shipyard work such as cleaning the vessel, grinding, painting, and lubricate, adjust, make minor repairs to engine and equipment. Perform maintenance, repair work and handyman activities on the oyster boats, dock and shipyards. Duties aboard fishing vessel include standing lookout, steering, engine room watches. Load / unload oyster sacks from vessel to dock cooler/freight trucks. The deckhands must be knowledgeable and comply with all U.S. Coast Guard safety procedures and all Texas Parks and Wildlife laws. Work is supervised. Two months oyster boat deckhand experience.

Special Requirements

Lift/carry up to 100 pounds. Employer paid drug test is Random (post-employment). No infectious diseases; seafood allergies may be fatal.

Employer Contact Info

+12819429682

[email protected]

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(and in some states, more than 8 hours a day), can get paid "time and a half?"

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