farmworker/ laborer

This job requires 2 months of Oyster Picking/ Planting by the worker

Crops: Oysters. These crops listed may or may not be planted and employer is not limited to only these crops listed

Oyster Planter/ Picker: Picking can take place during any type of weather and any time of the day or night. Some shellfish beds are reached by walking across the mudflats while others are reached by a crew boat. Picking oysters is physical, constant repetitive motion, manual labor which involves hand picking live oysters off the tide flats into baskets and dumping them into a container. The average bushel of oysters weighs 40 to 60 pounds, the average oyster picker can pick anywhere from 100 to 200 bushels/day in a tide depending on individual effort and tide duration. A tide can last anywhere from 1 to 5 hours. Although the main function of an oyster picker is to pick oysters, this job may require any and all labor associated with farming activities such as but by all means not limited to: planting, digging, maintenance, clean up, bed preparation, washing, packing, record keeping, grounds maintenance, bagging shell, loading and emptying tanks with bags of shell, etc.

See Addendum C: Job Duties 1.2