Crawfish Laborer

St. Mary Seafood, Inc.; Louisiana; On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation provided

Job summary

H2Ajobs in Louisiana seeks workers for crawfishing and related farm duties including cutting bait, trapping, loading trucks, and maintaining ponds and equipment. The role involves lifting and bending, operating boats, and driving tractors; no prior experience required.

Employer provides housing, meals, and transportation to markets and stores, plus access to farming facilities and tools. You will join a team supporting seed rice work, water management, and field preparation for cropping seasons.

Qualifications

• No minimum experience required.
• Willingness to perform manual farm labor.
• Ability to lift and carry equipment.

Responsibilities

• Harvest crawfish by hand and manage traps.
• Sort, weigh, and load crawfish for delivery.
• Maintain ponds and farm equipment.
• Assist in rice field work and tractor operation.

Job description

Crawfishing involves manually cutting up fish bait, boxing bait, baiting traps, operating motorized/pushing crawfish boats, traps are removed from the pond, crawfish are emptied onto tray, sorted, and placed into sacks; traps are re-baited and put back into pond, stock crawfish ponds; set out and pick up crawfish traps; remove trash and other matter from harvested crawfish; frequent stooping and lifting traps from pond, repair crawfish traps as needed, weigh and tag crawfish, wash and grade crawfish, load crawfish in trucks to deliver to markets/customers, load and unload trucks. Help repair and maintain farm equipment, shop, fields, levees, and farm roads, water maintenance. Cleaning and treating of the seed rice for planting; Drive tractor, prepare fields for flooding/crawfish, plow fields, planting rice crop.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Employer will provide cooking and kitchen facilities, housing, housing utilities, as well as transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries and other necessary items.

Transport: Transportation & related daily subsistence will be provided by the employer or paid by the employer to the worker for reasonable costs incurred for inbound & outbound travel. Employer will provide or pay for charter bus services or other modes of transportation to groups of H-2A or U.S. workers, or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose & reimburse workers at no less than the most economical & reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.

Experience wanted: 0 months

None.