Will AI replace Fishing and Hunting Workers?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
2/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 7% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 5% of the work
What the job involves
Hunt, trap, catch, or gather wild animals or aquatic animals and plants. May use nets, traps, or other equipment. May haul catch onto ship or other vessel.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(1)
- Oversee the purchase of supplies, gear, and equipment.
Out of reach(28)
- Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
- Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other on-board equipment and perform minor repairs.
- Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
- Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
- Wash decks, conveyors, knives, and other equipment, using brushes, detergents, and water.
and 23 more
Also called
Fur Trapper · Hunter · Lobster Fisherman · Alligator Hunter · Bird Trapper · Commercial Crabber · Commercial Fisher · Crab Fisher
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics