I am new to this game. I was offered a job to go fishing lobsters as a helper. You said you can only pay $60 a day… before deductions. Are you serious? That’s not even minimum wage! A person is out there for 7 hours or so and depending on weather perhaps longer… or not go out at all if the weather is too bad and a worker gets paid nothing. Now… I don’t think there are many more honorable ways to make a living than fishing or farming and I know it is hard, and dangerous work. I know prices are not what they used to be. I know fuel costs are up, bait, traps, insurance etc… But seriously… how can you as an owner offer a person a job doing this kind of work at $60 a day? I am new to this business and have no idea what a helper get’s paid on a boat… but I am sure it must be more than $60 a day. Has the industry deteriorated so badly that a person can’t make minimum wage fishing lobster as a helper? Why would you bother going fishing for lobster at all? Am I getting “chumped” here or is this the wage a helper gets usually? Can somebody answer these questions? What is the truth about this business? —What is the Rate Anyways?
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.
Are you the only deckhand? If not, ask. Some crews share 15%.(2 guys).Then bait and supplies come out of that.Not much of an income really. It’s why a lot of guys went west to work on the rigs.
This guy is gonna make it all good, though, so hang tight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6i_kFj5kbg
You dumbass your not making any money yet because you just admitted you dont know shit about it… this kinda pisses me off!! you start low and make ur way up the ladder just like the captian did. and Cranky he wouldnt be getting a crew share for atleast a year on the boat… My whole family fishes and your lucky your getting anything for not knowing anything… be lucky you got the oppurtunity to get on the boat and learn.
Stay in or go back to school.
Yeah, the pay for deck scabs was more general than anything. If he doesn’t like it he could probably make more money at mcdeess. And be warmer/dryer.
It’s YOU’RE, Amy, not your.
As in “you are.”
THAT kinda pisses me off.
…but “kinda” is ok??
😛
Yes. Yes it is.
sorta, shoulda, coulda, woulda, gotta go
Cool. Just checking.
Just bustin’ yer chops, PK. lol I know YOUR a good sport! 😛
lol painy
I regard this as an invalid bitch. Nova Scotia’s minimum wage law does not apply to farm laborers under 16, apprentices, salespeople, insurance agents or PEOPLE ENGAGED IN WORK ON FISHING VESSELS. $60 for 7 hours is remarkably close to minimum wage anyway. And as far as I know, minimum wage in general /is/ before deductions. That was as good as anything you’ll find in the entry level of your industry. Nobody goes fishing for the money.
True! They do it for the EI!
And their wife’s EI.
But hey, minimum wage and all the undersized/cull lobster you can eat…mmmmmm,mmmmmmmmmmmmm
OK, here’s a general fart in the wind on a stormy sea, but here goes….
Effective April 1, 2012, NS general minimum wage is $10.15 and the ‘inexperienced employees’ rate rises from $9.50 to $9.65.
Now, the NS Labour Standards Code defines “inexperienced employee” as follows:
“Inexperienced employee” means an employee who has not been employed by his or her present or other employer for a total period of three calendar months to do the work for which the employee is employed, but it does not include a person in the employ of an employer for whom he or she has completed three calendar months of employment. (N.S. Reg 257/2011, s. 1(a).)
Now, I’m not a lawyer and, though I once portrayed one on TV, I do not offer an interpretation of the above noted legislation. However, as a thought: Is it possible that the ship’s captain was trying, in the nicest possible terms, to disuade you from joining the crew?
Damn! Ion, I missed that Reg re: FISHING VESSELS. You’re right on the money. You see, that’s why they killed my character off in Season 3.
Do something else then OP. That was easy!
o.p., you wanna make some big cash, go on a scallop dragger, that’s where the money is. they are get a share, and for maybe ten days work, you can bring in a grand or more.
Talk to the captian if ur dont kinda wont not doit four less money. That’s why you stay in school.
That’s what a lot of the fisherman in PEI used to do. They’d offically on paper, list their wife as 1st mate during the fishing season, and when it came time to submit their EI, their wives could also claim, even though they never set foot on the damn boat.
Shysters!
Sorry about that pretty kitty 😀
yes avast its kinda ok 😛
Avasto…shysters !
You mean the people in our present Majority Government who are changing the OAS to age 67 from 65 for all us workers…but they still get to retire at age 55 ?
You want to talk shysters, there is no bigger criminal enterprise in this Country larger than the Federal Government.
DO you know why the Gov has passed such onerous criminal penalties to organized crime groups/families ?
They fucking hate competition !
Uh huh…and I suppose the NDP would NEVER think of doing ANYTHING like this eh?
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/0…
Are you serious? $60 a day? Honestly, I got paid $50 a day when I was 13 years old (1983) to do the same kind of job in Lockeport. Deckhand is crazy hard work but you don’t need any experience or grey matter to do it. Again, I did that job when I was 13. You’re getting taken advantage of.