A professional who sorts, grades, and packs egg skeins containing fish roe. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines egg skeins (membrane-enclosed ovaries, tissue, and fish roe) for unacceptable conditions, such as immaturity, bruises, or blood saturation.
• Discards unacceptable skeins and places acceptable skeins in containers for weighing and to await further processing.
• Dissolves specified salts in water, following brining formula; tests specific gravity of solution, using hydrometer; and pours brining solution into agitation vat.
• Flips switches to start vat agitators, pours preweighed amount of egg skeins into vat, and turns knob on timer to set brining cycle.
• Feels skeins for firmness and texture to determine effect of brine on skeins.
• Removes processed skeins from vat, using wooden-handled seine, and places skeins in container to drain.
• Tests brine in vat, using hydrometer, and adds specified salts when required to maintain salinity of brining solution at specified level.
• Examines, grades, and separates processed egg skeins, according to factors such as color, length, and width, utilizing product experience.
• Selects boxes marked for prescribed grade of egg skeins, places plastic sheets across bottom of boxes as liner, and sprinkles salt over liners prior to packing skeins.
• Positions layers of skeins in boxes to ensure preservation and seasoning in boxes.
• Weighs boxes on scales after packing, and adds or removes skeins to obtain specified weight.
• Folds plastic liner over filled boxes, positions lids on boxes, and stacks packed boxes for storage during aging process.