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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Fishing and Hunting Workers?
Task-level automation exposure for Fishing and Hunting Workers: 29 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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12%
weighted task index
29 of 29 tasks scored
Median Salary
$36,630 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — 45-0000 group row
Employment Level
Very High
435,200 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
-4.2%
employment change
3,300 openings a year · BLS line item
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 12%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 82%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 16%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 0%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 32/100
Moderate
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
29 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 0%
0 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 8%
3 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 92%
26 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Emerging & rewritten tasks
Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.
- New 05/2025 · AI/SME
Operate and maintain drone technology for aerial surveillance of hunting and fishing areas.
Constituent Tasks
#23403 · Core · 8% automatable
Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
situated mobility — Navigating water vessels is real-world situated control
Navigate water vessels.
#23410 · Core · 2% automatable
Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
physical manipulation — Physical capture or kill
Capture or kill animals.
#23428 · Core · 27% automatable
Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
interpersonal — Directing field employees is on-site human supervision
Direct activities of agricultural, forestry, or fishery employees.
#23419 · Core · 8% automatable
Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
situated mobility — Navigating water vessels is real-world situated control
Navigate water vessels.
#23402 · Core · 10% automatable
Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.
situated mobility — Driving vehicles at work sites is situated mobility
Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites.
#23415 · Core · 6% automatable
Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.
physical manipulation — Physical placement of traps in unpredictable terrain
Position animal trapping or capture equipment.
#23408 · Core · 18% automatable
Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
physical manipulation — Hands-on repair of field equipment in unstructured settings
Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
#23424 · Core · 5% automatable
Connect accessories such as floats, weights, flags, lights, or markers to nets, lines, or traps.
physical manipulation — Hands-on accessory attachment
Attach equipment extensions or accessories.
#23423 · Core · 10% automatable
Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
physical manipulation — Equipment and facility cleaning is hands-on
Clean equipment or facilities.
#23427 · Core · 2% automatable
Harvest marine life for human or animal consumption, using diving or dredging equipment, traps, barges, rods, reels, or tackle.
physical manipulation — Physical capture or kill
Capture or kill animals.
#23429 · Core · 50% automatable
Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment.
decision support — Procurement coordination needs vendor judgment and authority
Coordinate resource procurement activities.
#23426 · Core · 3% automatable
Load and unload vessel equipment and supplies, by hand or using hoisting equipment.
physical manipulation — Manual loading of agricultural products
Load agricultural or forestry products for shipment.
#23406 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers.
physical manipulation — Skinning carcasses needs fine manual dexterity
Remove skin or other body parts from animals.
#23400 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.
situated mobility — Field locating of animals
Locate animals for fishing or hunting purposes.
#23411 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Locate fish, using fish-finding equipment.
situated mobility — Field locating of animals
Locate animals for fishing or hunting purposes.
#23421 · Supplemental · 2% automatable
Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods.
physical manipulation — Physical capture or kill
Capture or kill animals.
#23405 · Supplemental · 18% automatable
Maintain and repair trapping equipment.
physical manipulation — Hands-on repair of field equipment in unstructured settings
Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
#23401 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land.
information retrieval — Documentation research aided; formal filing human
Obtain documentation to authorize activities.
#23407 · Supplemental · 6% automatable
Put fishing equipment into the water and anchor or tow equipment, according to the fishing method used.
physical manipulation — Physical placement of traps in unpredictable terrain
Position animal trapping or capture equipment.
#23414 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Compute positions and plot courses on charts to navigate vessels, using instruments such as compasses, sextants, and charts.
situated mobility — Navigating water vessels is real-world situated control
Navigate water vessels.
#23409 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Sort, pack, and store catch in holds with salt and ice.
physical manipulation — Packaging agricultural products is manual handling
Sort forestry or agricultural materials. Package agricultural products for shipment or further processing.
#23412 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set.
text generation — Safety messaging can be drafted; delivery is human
Obtain written authorization to perform activities. Communicate safety or hazard information to others.
#23413 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation.
situated mobility — Field locating of animals
Locate animals for fishing or hunting purposes.
#23404 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured.
physical manipulation — Skinning carcasses needs fine manual dexterity
Remove skin or other body parts from animals.
#23418 · Supplemental · 6% automatable
Transport fish to processing plants or to buyers.
physical manipulation — Physical transport of animals, crops, equipment
Transport animals, crops, or equipment.
#23416 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Attach nets, slings, hooks, blades, or lifting devices to cables, booms, hoists, or dredges.
physical manipulation — Hands-on accessory attachment
Attach equipment extensions or accessories.
#23425 · Supplemental · 22% automatable
Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey.
physical manipulation — Farming/forestry technique training is hands-on outdoor work
Train workers in farming, forestry, or hunting techniques.
#23420 · Supplemental · 2% automatable
Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages.
physical manipulation — Physical capture or kill
Capture or kill animals.
#23417 · Supplemental · 20% automatable
Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.
physical manipulation — Protection requires field work and enforcement in the world
Protect wildlife or natural areas.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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