Fishing net maker
Also called drift net maker, fisheries net maker, maker of fishing nets
Fishing net makers make and assemble fishing net gear and carry out reparation and maintenance, as directed by the drawings and/or traditional methods.
What you'd do
Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials · ILO- Spinning and dyeing with natural dyestuffs, wool, cotton and other fibres
- Lace-making and weaving, knitting or embroidering various garments and articles for household use
- Preparing and dyeing hides with natural dyestuffs and making traditional footwear or handbags, belts and other accessories
- Spinning and winding yarn by hand
- Drawing warp threads into loom by hand
- Weaving plain or figured cloth, tapestry, lace, carpet or other fabrics on hand looms
- Making carpets by using a knotting technique
- Knitting garments and other articles on hand-operated machine or by hand
- Crocheting or making braid by hand
- Making nets by hand
- Grading and classifying natural textile fibres
- Washing wool fibres
- Cleaning and fluffing textile fibres
- Forming fibres into sliver, combing them, combining sliver into sliver laps or forming sliver into rove
- Mostly outdoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines now and then
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,100 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,900 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in fisheries is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.13 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 14 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).