Farm Workers, Aquaculture
Employer: Prime Line Inc
Location: Macon, MS
Workers needed: 28
Pay: $9.95/hour
Season: Jan 2, 2027 – Oct 29, 2027
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Prime Line will stagger the entry of H-2A workers. Prime Line, Inc. is a vertically integrated catfish farm with on-site processing facilities. Primary duties are drain and prepare ponds for brood fish, catfish fry, fingerlings, stockers, and food fish. Seine ponds to move fish to appropriate ponds. Pond repair and maintenance. Receive ingredients for feed, mix and prepare feed for fish. Secondary duties include clean, fillet and pack fish in processing plant.
Place spawning cans in ponds, inspect for fish eggs, collect eggs, and transport eggs to hatchery, place eggs in hatching baskets, place baskets in hatching troughs. Inspect eggs regularly, treat eggs as required, collect fry from egg troughs and move to rearing troughs, monitor fry health. In hatchery, clean and disinfect egg troughs, rearing troughs and baskets. Remove spawning cans from ponds.
Place pumps and screens to filter and fill fry ponds. Collect swim up fry and transport and unload into fry ponds. Feed fry, monitor and maintain water quality and fry health, protect fry from predatory birds.
Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload fingerlings into ponds, feed fingerlings, monitor and maintain water quality and fingerling health, protect fingerlings from predatory birds.
Seine, determine size in pounds per thousand, load, transport, and unload stockers into ponds, feed stockers, monitor and maintain water quality and stocker health, protect stockers from predatory birds.
Seine, load, transport, and unload food fish for further processing. Requires workers to operate and maintain trucks, pickups, boom trucks, fish feeders, tractors. Use oxygen meters, aerators, aerator control panels, cell phones, oxygen buoys, seine reels, seines, backhoes, live cars, boats with outboard motors, pumps.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer housing has free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities for the workers that will enable the workers to prepare their own meals. Kitchen facilities are furnished with stove, refrigerator, storage cabinets, food storage containers, cooking utensils, pots and pans, sinks, hot and cold water, cleaning supplies, and dishes.
Housing is during the employment period only to workers not in commuting distance.
Workers are offered free transportation at least once a week to assure workers access to bank and to stores where they can purchase groceries and other needed articles. Licensed drivers will be provided by employer for transportation to and from housing to job site and stores as necessary.
Transport: Employer will reimburse an employee’s inbound transportation and visa-related expenses (i.e. subsistence, lodging, etc.) in the first workweek to the extent that the costs would bring the worker wages below the FLSA minimum wage. The balance will be reimbursed at 50% of the contract period.” Employer will reimburse the worker cost for the transportation and subsistence from the worker’s home to the consulate. Employer will reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reason
Experience wanted: 0 months
Must be available for entire contract period and able to perform all job duties Able to operate tractors and other farm equipment. Some heavy lifting (60-80 lbs.) spawning containers and feed, boxed product in processing plant. Work is performed outdoors and involves exposure to sun, rain, heat, cold, insects and other natural elements. . Seining requires use of arms, legs and moving whole body walking in water 4-4 1/2 feet deep, lifting, balancing, and stooping. Duties in processing plant are repetitive and workers stand 100% of time. Hours of work may vary due to weather conditions and job duties. Ability to swim. Be available at time and place necessary to begin employment. Applicants must possess documents required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States to complete Form I-9 form upon hire.
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