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Seafood Processing Workers

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals set up and operate machines that process and package fish and seafood products. They cut, empty, and clean them. They are employed in fish and seafood processing plants.

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Equipment, machinery, tools
  • Biological agents
  • Odours
  • Humidity
  • Noise

Main tasks

Fish and Seafood Processing and Packaging Machine Operators

  • Set up and operate machines that process fish and seafood products.
  • Check products and packaging for irregularities.
  • Ensure compliance with company standards.
  • Make the necessary adjustments to machines.
  • Record production information.

Fish and Seafood Cleaners and Cutters

  • Cut, clean, and trim (remove skin, bones, head, etc.) fish and seafood before sale or packaging.
  • Scale the fish, cut it, gut it, and separate the fillets.
  • Cut pieces according to specifications and weigh them.
  • Shell lobsters and other crustaceans and remove flesh for canning (or other processing).

Advancement and mobility

  • Experience leads to supervisory positions.

Hourly wage

Not available.

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

800

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
46.3% Female
53.7% Male

Not available.
  • 46.3% Female
  • 53.7% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage

All of Québec

Not available.

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Seasonal worker
  • None

All of Québec

  • Seasonal worker
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    87% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    5% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    5% of jobs
  4. Transportation and Warehousing
    NAICS 48, 49
    2% of jobs
  5. Accommodation and Food Services
    NAICS 72
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    -1% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Food, Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
    NAICS 311, 312
    87% of jobs
  2. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    5% of jobs
  3. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    5% of jobs
  4. Transportation and Warehousing
    NAICS 48, 49
    2% of jobs
  5. Accommodation and Food Services
    NAICS 72
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    -1% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

No specific training

Sometimes required

  • A few years of secondary school education may be required.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Data collection
  • Information processing
  • Result evaluation
  • Operations and control
  • Reading comprehension
  • Critical thought
  • Monitoring operations
  • Coordination
  • Active listening
  • Written expression
  • Oral expression
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Abilities

  • Information organization
  • Near vision
  • Oral comprehension
  • Awareness of issues
  • Written comprehension
  • Manual dexterity
  • Control accuracy
  • Hand-arm stability
  • Selective attention
  • Speech clarity
  • Classification
  • Digital dexterity
  • Verbal skills
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Perception speed
  • Speech recognition
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Knowledge and attributes

  • Focussed on results
  • Perseverance
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Rigour
  • Vitality
  • Respect standards and regulations
  • Tolerance to frequent temperature variations
  • Knowledge of plant and animal production
  • Tolerance to routine work
  • Timeliness

Interests

  • Work manually
  • Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Realistic
People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Conventional
People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Investigative
People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Additional information

Official name of the NOC 9463

Fish and seafood plant workers

Job titles

  • Fillet chopper - fish processing
  • Fish splitter - fish processing
  • Fish processor
  • Fish-processing plant worker
  • Lobster processor - fish processing
  • Shrimp processor - fish and seafood processing
  • Fish dresser - fish processing
  • Fish paste grinder - fish processing
  • Fish cake maker
  • Frozen fish cutter - fish processing
  • Crab steamer - fish and seafood processing
  • Clam steamer - fish and seafood processing
  • Fish cook - fish processing
  • Shucker - fish and seafood processing
  • Shrimp peeler - fish and seafood processing
  • Shellfish shucker
  • Crab butcher - fish and seafood processing
  • Clam shucker - fish and seafood processing
  • Scallop shucker - fish and seafood processing
  • Oyster shucker - fish processing
  • Oyster packer - fish processing
  • Fish boner - fish processing
  • Fish header - fish processing
  • Fish cake former - fish processing
  • Fish fryer - fish processing
  • Fish broiler - fish processing
  • Fish cleaner and cutter
  • Machine operator - fish processing
  • Fish cutting machine operator - fish processing
  • Filling machine operator - fish and seafood products
  • Filleting machine operator - fish processing
  • Can-filling machine operator - fish processing
  • Fish canning machine operator
  • Fish-processing machine operator
  • Fish plant machine operator - fish processing
  • Fish presser operator - fish processing
  • Skinner operator - fish processing
  • Centrifuge machine tender - fish processing
  • Fish stick machine tender - fish processing
  • Clam-shucking machine tender - fish and seafood processing
  • Shrimp peeler tender - fish and seafood processing
  • Oyster washer tender - fish processing
  • Fish-cleaning machine tender - fish processing
  • Shellfish-processing machine tender
  • Fish-processing machine tender
  • Oyster canner - fish processing
  • Fish oil extractor tender - fish processing
  • Basket filter tender - fish and seafood processing
  • Fish smoker - fish processing
  • Fish smoke chamber tender - fish processing
  • Fish dryer tender - fish processing
  • Fish dryer and grinder tender - fish processing
  • Shellfish separator tender - fish and seafood processing
  • Shellfish processor
  • Fish by-products processor
  • Fish offal processor - fish processing
  • Trimmer - fish processing
  • Fish trimmer - fish processing
  • Fish cake processor - fish processing
  • Hand shellfish processor - fish and seafood processing
  • Seafood preparer - fish and seafood processing
  • Fish products maker - fish processing
  • Fish egg processor - fish processing
  • Fish cutting machine setter - fish processing
  • Filleting machine setter - fish processing
  • Skinning machine setter - fish processing
  • Can filler - fish and seafood processing
  • Fish curer - fish processing
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Skill type

Manufacturing and utilities

WAP

This occupation is targeted by a Workplace Apprenticeship Program

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Related occupations

  • Labourers in fish and seafood processing
  • Supervisors, food and beverage processing

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: December 22, 2022

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