A professional who kills seals for pelts, using clubs. Respnsibilities include:

• Rounds up droves of bachelor seals resting or sleeping on beach adjacent to, but distinct from, rookery, using pole to prod them and keep them together.
• Drives male seals inland to killing grounds, and sorts droves into pods.
• Kills male seals that are within specified age and size limits, by striking them on head with club, after allowing others to escape.
• Severs skin around head and flippers of dead seal, using knife, pins its skull to ground with metal bar, and pulls off seal's skin from head to tail.
• Loads pelts onto trucks for transportation to plant for cleaning and curing.
• Washes pelts in sea water.
• Scrapes fat and blubber from pelts, using hand scraper.
• Cures pelts in salt or brine, sprinkles boric acid on skin side of pelt to prevent bacterial development, and packs and salts pelts in barrels for shipment and further processing.
• May be designated according to specific task performed as Seal Driver; Seal Killer; Seal Skinner.
• Sealing operations are controlled by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.