Crawfish Laborer
Employer: St. Mary Seafood, Inc.
Location: Franklin, LA
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $10.42/hour
Season: Dec 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
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
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