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