Fishing and Hunting Workers
Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 6%
- 0%
- 94%
Anthropic's data does not cover this job.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 5%. Today's estimate: 6%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 29 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 14% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 12% | 1.7 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 10% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 2.5 h50 min to 5.8 h | Stays with people | |
| Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 1.3 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Sailors and Marine Oilers4% now, 19% by 2028
- Motorboat Operators5% now, 5% by 2028
- Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels5% now, 8% by 2028
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals2% now, 2% by 2028
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse4% now, 4% by 2028
- Forest and Conservation Workers2% now, 2% by 2028