Jayme Brown

• Assisted with setting and hauling of traps.
• Inspected ropes and trap for damage before and during deployment.
• Assisted with repairs and maintenance of equipment on board vessels.
• Cleaned deck and equipment after each fishing trip.
• Helped process caught seafood by sorting, grading and packing it into containers.

• Fished lobster (double gang of traps)
• Worked the position of lugger and position of lander.
• Repaired and maintained lobster fishing gear- traps, rope, buoys and anchors.

-Splicing and fathoming rope to build trawl, skilled rope work.

-Using metal fabrication skills to weld and repair trawl anchors, and various other equipment

• Maintained boat.

-Periodically changed anodes to protect vital steel parts from salt water corrosion.

-Assisted and conducted mechanical and hydraulic repairs.

-Conducted fiberglass repairs and painting to vessel

• Scallop Fishing (Mid-bay and full bay license)
• Assisted in setting up the boat for scallop dragging.

-Loading and installing 18ton capacity hydraulic wench, Steel A-frame, Steel dumping table and scallop drags.

-Working and communicating with Boom truck driver to install before mentioned equipment.

-Repairing and hard surface welding scallop drags and spreader bar.

-building scallop drag steel mesh bags.

• Operating main hydraulic wench, landing, dumping and setting back the drags.
• shucking, cleaning and bagging scallops

• Fished lobster, worked the position of lander.

-Maintained and built lobster fishing gear.

• Fished halibut on long line trawls.

-Built and repaired long line fishing trawls

• Banded lobster.
• Lugged traps.
• Landed traps.
• Repaired and maintain fishing gear.
• Preformed oil changes and general maintenance to boat.
• Scuba diving to remove rope from boat propellers, change shaft zinks and hull anodes on boat while still in the water.
• Scuba diving on herring weir.

• Fabricating various types of fishing equipment (trawl anchors, scallop drags, spreader bars)
• Building and welding aluminum hay rails for boats, steel cages for props.
• Repairing steel, and aluminum hulls on commercial vessels.
• Installing water tight doors in bulk heads.
• Cutting and crimping Hydraulic hoses. (Pipe thread and JIC)
• Welding Stick, mig, flux core, aluminum wire feed, hard-surface rod, hard-surface wire feed, stainless steel stick welding, cast iron welding.
• Operating oxy-acetylene cutting torch.
• Constructed base templates and interpreted construction and engineering blueprints.

• Read blueprints and drawings and took measurements to plan layout and procedures.
• Measuring, cutting, notching and welding galvanized tubing to form construction panels (temporary fences that can be erected around construction sites.)
• Building and maintaining 10-14 inch diameter drill augers for the installation of fence posts. (flux core welding and hard-surfacing)