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Shellfish Farm Laborer
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 8
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 44
- Wage: 16.16 USD / Hour
- Start date: 04/05/2025
- End date: 12/31/2025
- Process date: 02/28/2025 15:24:49
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
This job requires planting and harvesting oysters through the aquaculture/farming operation. Oysters grow during late spring, summer and early fall months, when water temperatures are above about 50 degrees F. Larvae are purchased from a hatcher and "set" or "struck" onto sand-sized particles of ground oyster shell (cultch). Spat on shell is the process of setting larvae on shells in large setting tanks. loading. Silos are loaded in the tanks with shell, setting larvae in the tanks with no river water only air for two days, then turn on the river water so they can get food to grow. After 7-14 days drain the tanks and plant the tanks on our grounds. The process take places in a downweller, or a tank of circulated and aerated water containing a "sieve" with a mesh size of about 100 microns, or small enough to retain both the larvae and the cultch. Water is circulated into the top of the "sieve" so that it flows down through the mesh, and back into the tank. After few days small amounts of local water containing phytoplankton are added to provide food. After about a week the cultch and attached oysters are transferred to upweller silos, or buckets with plastic mesh on the bottom. Water is forced up through the mesh and the bed of oysters and out the top of the bucket to provide food. All oysters are grown and harvested by the farmer, and on the farm of R&S Seafood. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Workers will perform the following tasks related to aquaculture/farming operation: cultivate, grow and harvest oysters, through a four part cultivation process; wash seed oysters by hand with hose, grade oysters on shucking tables or graders, place juvenile oysters in floats or cages for deployment in the water; when oysters mature and are ready for harvest remove/harvest oysters; wash, visually inspect, shuck, count, pack refrigerate and prepare oysters for sale, for pick up or local delivery; redeploy any oysters not ready for market back in water; clean, repair and maintain equipment (cages, floats, upweller, silos, trays and other equipment). Cleaning all cage floats and upweller silos of fouling by pressure-washing and hand scrubbing. Workers will be expected to perform all the duties required with accuracy and efficiency. Workers will assist with facility/equipment maintenance and sanitation.