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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Ellsworth, Maine

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Job Description
Salary: DOE
  • Category:  Fish Marker
  • Location: On-Site
  • Citizenship Required: United States Citizenship
  • Clearance Type: None
  • Telecommute: NO
  • Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
  • Travel Required: No
  • Positions Available: 9


At CMA LLC, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come.  We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, nonconventional aptitude, and bringing your whole self to work.


CMA is seeking Fish Markers to join our growing team of diverse professionals.


Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Fish Markers will work as a group to complete adipose fin clips of approximately 112,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon. All work will be scheduled and performed within the time frames provided by the Project Lead.
  • Fish Markers will follow established standard operating procedures that are provided by Project Lead.
  • Fish Markers will follow directions to complete clipping effectively, safely, and to avoid fish mortality.
  • Fish Markers will be expected to each mark about 400 to 500 fish per hour. Fish Markers will assist in
    and changing baths and moving marking equipment from pool to pool as clipping progresses.
  • Fish Markers will perform additional tasks only as assigned by the Project Lead (e.g., assisting hatchery
    staff with crowding or netting fish).
  • Fish Markers should be capable of standing on their feet for up to 8 hours, working in cold outdoor
    conditions, and lifting to 50 pounds. Duties will require exposure to certain FDA approved chemicals
    such as Tricaine Methanesulfonate (“MS-222”), a fish anesthetic agent, while performing fish clipping.
  • Fish Marker must completely remove adipose fin without injury to the fish.
  • Fish Marker must properly use anesthetic so as not to endanger the health and wellbeing of the fish being marked.
  • Fish Marker must handle each fish in such a manner as to avoid internal or external injury to the fish.
  • Fish Marker will be required to mark a minimum of 2,300 fish per day. If the minimum number is reached before the end of the daily work period, marking will continue until the end of the workday or stop at the discretion of the Project Lead.


Salary Range: $20.00 Hourly

CMA is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.