Not your nine-to-five desk job: Why fishery officers love what they do
This isn’t your regular nine-to-five desk job! Take a look and discover why our Fishery Officers love what they do.
Transcript
[Music plays over fishery officer montage]
[Scottie Griffin, Fishery Officer, B.C. is on screen and speaking]
I love being a fishery officer. Being a fishery officer means that I can go out in the elements of our beautiful area.
[coastline view in BC]
I get to explore the coastlines of the BC
[Scottie Griffin on a fishery officer vessel]
and I also get to go on the freshwater environment
[Scottie is out on the deck of a fishery officer vessel]
and help from salmon and the freshwater to
[Group of killer whales swimming]
the whales and marine other marine mammals in the ocean.
[Genevieve Cauffope, Chief of Policy and Regulations, is on screen and speaking]
You meet engaged and passionate people and the work changes from one day to another, so you never get bored.
[Derek Chung, Fishery Officer, BC, is on screen and speaking]
Any given day we could be working on a boat in a truck, uh, in the forest on the ocean and it's extremely exciting.
[Greg Askey, Fishery Officer, Campbell River BC, is on screen and speaking]
Personally for me, my family's been involved in the fishing industry for many generations so
I see this as my way of giving back something.
[Angle from the back of a fishery officer vessel driving in the water]
[Derek Chung is speaking]
Choosing a career as a fishery officer is extremely rewarding.
[Fishery officer and a person speaking on the dock]
Working with the public working with young kids
[Fishery officers in their vessels on the water]
working with, um, all sorts of different sectors of our community.
[Derek Chung is on screen]
It's extremely valuable.
[Scottie Griffin is on screen and speaking]
You go home every day and you feel like you've actually done something
[Aerial view of a coastline in BC]
to help out the future fisheries of our generations
[Scottie Griffin is on screen and speaking]
and it's definitely a feel-good job.
[Greg Askey is on screen and speaking]
Give this a shot
[Fishery officers having a discussion on the water]
it's a rewarding, challenging,
[Fishery officer is using binoculars]
interesting, varied job
[5 fishery officers standing on a dock]
that has lots of personal rewards.
[Greg Askey is on screen]
Some days on the water when the weather's awesome you wonder why they're paying you to be there.
[Music]
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