Farm Workers, Aquaculture
Employer
1762 Stan Tabor Road
Macon, MS 39341
United States
Job description
Prime Line, Inc. is a vertically integrated catfish farm with on-site processing facilities. Primary duties include pond preparation for brood fish, catfish fry, fingerlings, stockers, and food fish. Seine ponds to move fish to appropriate ponds. Pond repair and maintenance. Receive ingredients for feed, prepare feed, and feed fish.
Place spawning cans in brood ponds, collect and transport spawn to hatchery, place spawn in hatching baskets, place baskets in hatching troughs. Inspect eggs regularly, treat eggs as required, collect fry from egg troughs and move to rearing troughs, monitor fry health. In hatchery, clean and disinfect egg troughs, rearing troughs and baskets. Remove spawning cans from ponds.
Place pumps and screens to filter and fill fry ponds. Collect swim up fry and transport and unload into fry ponds. Feed fry, monitor and maintain water quality and fry health, protect fry from predatory birds.
Seine, load, transport, and unload fingerlings into ponds, feed fingerlings, monitor and maintain water quality and fingerling health, protect fingerlings from predatory birds.
Seine, load, transport, and unload stockers into ponds, feed stockers, monitor and maintain water quality and stocker health, protect stockers from predatory birds. Seine, load, transport, and unload food fish for further processing. Secondary duties include clean, fillet and pack fish in processing plant.
Requires workers to operate and maintain trucks, pickups, boom trucks, fish feeders, tractors. Use oxygen meters, aerators, aerator control panels, cell phones, oxygen buoys, seine reels, seines, live cars, boats with outboard motors, pumps.
Special Requirements
Must be available for entire contract period and able to perform all job duties. B6 4b. Able to operate tractors and other farm equipment. B6 4e. Some heavy lifting (60-80 lbs.) spawning containers and feed, boxed product in processing plant. B6 4f. Work is performed outdoors and involves exposure to sun, rain, heat, cold, insects and other natural elements. B6 4g-4j. Seining requires use of arms, legs and moving whole body walking in water 4-4 1/2 feet deep, lifting, balancing, and stooping. Duties in processing plant are repetitive and workers stand 100% of time. Hours of work may vary due to weather conditions and job duties. Ability to swim. Be available at time and place necessary to begin employment. Applicants must possess documents required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States to complete Form I-9 form upon hire.B6 4c. Prime Line Inc. does background checks during the pre-hire process and informs the applicant during the interview that we will.