Fisheries Technician

Description: The Fisheries Technician is a temporary position located at remote, off-grid hatcheries in the Prince William Sound of Alaska and a semi-remote facility near Paxon, Alaska. PWSAC produces chum, sockeye, pink, and coho salmon. PWSAC is looking for enthusiastic individuals that will unite with PWSAC’s mission of sustainable fisheries contributing to the culture and economy of the region. 

Jumpstart your fisheries career and gain hands-on experience working with Pacific Salmon at large scale hatcheries in Alaska. Spring projects will be focused on outmigration and husbandry of juvenile salmon. Husbandry of saltwater smolt is performed on ocean net pens that require skiff boat operation and knowledge of nautical knots. Project lengths typically range from three to six months.

Responsibilities: Eggtake: Enumerating, caring, killing, spawning, and disposing of carcasses; preparing, cleaning, and maintaining incubators; monitoring and maintaining water quality; loading, enumerating, picking, and caring for egg/ alevin;

Outmigration/rearing: enumerating and setting up outmigration of fry, feeding, sampling, raceway/net cleaning, health monitoring, releasing fry, incubation cleaning, and rebuilding

Harvest: Preparing, repairing, and maintaining harvest equipment; loading, transporting, caring for, and unloading harvest pens; collecting and recording fish harvest management data.

Perform other general duties associated with fish culture operations.

Site cleanup, general maintenance and repairs, groundskeeping, and snow removal.

Operates skiffs and small boats, live trap nets, ATVs, pickups, bobcats, power tools, or other equipment.

Takes samples from commercial fisheries catches for data on species, size, age, and sex composition; collects scales, otoliths, ovaries, or other biological specimens, scale mounting.

Use computers and computer software to conduct routine data entry or output.

Qualifications: 

High school graduation or equivalent

Must have a current driver’s license

Preferred qualifications:

Hatchery or animal husbandry experience

Associates or Bachelors in Aquaculture, Fisheries, Wildlife, or relevant field

Learn more and apply here.