Creel Crew
Seasonal Full-Time and Part-Time
April 29, 2025 – August 31, 2025
Prince Rupert, BC
Application Deadline: April 18, 2025 at 4:00 p.m.
North Coast-Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society requires a Creel Crew of up to five
surveyors for seasonal full and part-time employment from April 29 – August 31, 2025, to staff the
Area 3 and 4 creel survey program operating in the Prince Rupert area. Wage rate from $28 to
$29 per hour depending on experience.
Duties include the following:
- Conduct dock-side interviews with anglers returning from recreational fishing trips to
collect fishing activity data - Careful handling of anglers recreational catch
- Accurately identify recreational catch, including species caught and quantity
- Collecting biological samples, such as scales, tissue samples and lengths, from selected
species - Inspecting chinook and coho salmon catch for clipped adipose fins
- Collecting heads from chinook or coho salmon with clipped adipose fins
- Documenting the number of boats returning from fishing trips passing through boat launches
- Creating legible and accurate records of information collected according to survey
requirements - Data review, correction, compilation and entry
Requirements include:
- Successful completion of high school education
- Ability to safely conduct work around water
- Ability to safely and respectfully interact with the public at boat launches
- Ability to accurately identify salmon, groundfish and shellfish species
- Data collection experience
- Class 5 driver’s license with access to a vehicle
- Post-secondary education and past fisheries monitoring experience is an asset
- Computer literacy including experience with data entry and editing is an asset
Working Conditions are:
- Outdoors in all weather conditions
- On and around docks and boats
- Shift work, evenings and weekends
The closing date for applications is April 18, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. Please send applications to the
attention of Carmen Hansen at:
North Coast‐Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society
Suite 363 – 309 2nd Avenue West
Prince Rupert BC, V8J 1H2
Fax: 250‐624‐8615
E-mail: administration@ncsfnss.ca
Qualified First Nation candidates are encouraged to apply. Training will be provided for
successful candidates during a mandatory training session April 29 and 30, 2025.
NCSFNSS thanks all interested applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Contact for More Information About NCSFNSS Fisheries or NC CE Programs
North Coast‐Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society
Suite 363 – 309 2nd Avenue West Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3T1
+1 250-624-8614
+1 250-624-8615 (Fax)
administration@ncsfnss.ca