A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting shellfish. Respnsibilities include:

• Confers with manager to determine time and place of seed planting, cultivating, feeding, and harvesting shellfish.
• Plans work schedules according to tidal levels, and availability of personnel and equipment.
• Inspects beds and ponds to ascertain the quality of seed distribution, adequacy of cultivation, and completeness of harvesting, and directs workers to correct deviations and irregularities.
• Oversees maintenance of planting, cultivating, and harvesting equipment, tidal pens, and shellfish beds.
• Trains worker to drive or operate equipment, and in methods and techniques of shellfish farming.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May assign workers to guard pens and beds against encroachment.
• May record planting and harvesting data, and keep workers' time records.
• May supervise workers engaged in farming a specific type of shellfish and be designated Supervisor, Clam-Bed; Supervisor, Oyster Farm; Supervisor, Shrimp Pond.