A professional who assembles and repairs nets on shore and aboard ship. Respnsibilities include:

• Assembles, ties, and adjusts various webbing material, floats, weights, rings, and ropes to make gill nets, purse seines, reef nets, and trawls, using knife and twine-filled bobbin shuttle.
• Hoists net into ship's rigging to dry after fishing operations, using block and tackle, and repairs holes and tears in webbing.
• Gives direction to workers engaged in taking down nets.
• May retrieve lost nets from water.
• May participate in fishing.