Trappers and Hunters
Job description
These individuals trap and hunt wild animals for their skins or to sell them alive.
Environment
- Climatic conditions
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Biological agents
- Hazardous workplaces
Main tasks
Trappers
- Place bait in traps and place traps along trails.
- Inspect trapping routes.
- Remove captured animals and replace traps.
- Slaughter and skin captured animals to keep their skin.
- Process and pack hides for sale.
- Trap live animals for sale or movement.
- Maintain and repair trapping equipment.
- Maintain trails and access to trapping routes.
- Trap animals designated for premium or control programs.
- Control the animal population in trapping areas to ensure the viability of the resource, as required.
Hunters
- Locate and track wild animals.
- Slaughter wildlife with firearms or other weapons.
- Skin slaughtered animals to keep their skin.
- Process and pack hides, and transport them to processing plants or public auctions.
- Maintain hunting equipment.
- Control the animal population in hunting areas to ensure the viability of the resource, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Specific areas may be allocated to trappers based on their experience and jurisdiction.
- These individuals may specialize in trapping or hunting a particular species of animal.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
250
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 17.6% Female
- 82.4% Male
Not available.
- 17.6% Female
- 82.4% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$36,800
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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Not available.
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 1152100% of jobs
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Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Also required
- Trapper or hunter courses.
- Trapping or hunting licence.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Critical thought
Abilities
- Hand-arm stability
- Distance vision
- Near vision
- Limb coordination
- Manual dexterity
- Digital dexterity
- Endurance
- Core strength
- Static muscle power
- Awareness of issues
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Processing flexibility
- Visualization
- Classification
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Spatial orientation
- Control accuracy
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Focussed on results
- Perseverance
- Capacity to adapt
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Creativity
- Knowledge of laws and policies
- Tolerance to frequent temperature variations
- Knowledge of plant and animal production
- Patience
Interests
- Develop and exploit natural resources
- Exercer une activité sportive ou physique
- Work outdoors
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 85104
Trappers and hunters
Job titles
- Hunter
- Trapper
- Seal hunter - hunting and trapping
- Fur trapper
- Beaver trapper
- Land-based seal hunter
- Game trapper
- Muskrat trapper
Skill type
Natural resources, agriculture and related production
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