A professional who performs any combination of following tasks concerned with cannery processing of fish roe. Respnsibilities include:

• Presses headless fish against work surface to ascertain sex of fish by presence or absence of milt.
• Inserts hand into body cavity of female fish, feels along ventral area of body to locate vent, and cups hand to remove viscera and egg skeins (membrane-enclosed ovaries, tissue, and fish roe).
• Separates viscera and organs from egg skeins by hand.
• Discards viscera and organs and places egg skeins in baskets for weighing.
• Weighs baskets containing egg skeins, using scales, and records totals on tally sheets.
• Dumps basket of egg skeins on work surface, and examines egg skeins for imperfections, such as blood saturation, immature eggs, and torn membranes.
• Separates egg skeins, according to size and species of fish.
• Places acceptable egg skeins in containers for reweighing.
• Rinses containers of egg skeins with water, using water hose, and dips containers in mild saline solution to rinse egg skeins prior to brining.
• Works under direction of fish roe technician to fill brining tanks, dump egg skeins into tanks, remove processed egg skeins, and pack egg skeins for shipment, following prescribed procedures.
• May slit underside of fish before removing egg skeins, using knife.