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Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers · code 6340

Subsistence fishers, hunters, trappers and gatherers

Subsistence fishers, hunters, trappers and gatherers gather wild fruits, medicinal and other plants; hunt and trap animals; and catch fish and gather various forms of aquatic life in order to provide food, shelter and, in some cases, a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households. Tasks include - (a) gathering wild fruits, roots, medicinal and other plants; (b) hunting or trapping animals mainly to obtain meat, milk, hair, skin or other products; (c) fetching water and gathering firewood; (d) catching fish and gathering other forms of aquatic life; (e) storing or carrying out some processing of their produce; (f) building and maintaining houses and other shelters; (g) making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household; (h) selling or bartering some products at local markets. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Hunter-gatherer - Subsistence collector - Subsistence diver - Subsistence fisher - Subsistence trapper Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Subsistence crop farmer - 6310 - Subsistence livestock farmer - 6320 - Livestock farm labourer - 9212 - Water and firewood collector - 9624 Notes Workers in a subsistence setting whose main tasks are fetching water and gathering firewood are classified in Unit Group 9624: Water and Firewood Collectors. Workers in subsistence agriculture who perform a limited range of simple and routine tasks, usually under the direction of others, are classified in the relevant unit group in Sub-major Group 92: Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Labourers.

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 26 of 427 for holding up against AI.

88.2
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 11.8 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 11.8 = 88.2

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

71.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

40.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 42.9 · hand skill 41.1 · cramped spaces 38 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly 39.4+ Hands-on, fiddly work in tight spaces

More fine handwork, and more time in cramped or awkward spots, than a typical hands-on job. That is exactly what machines find hardest: they do best in tidy, predictable places.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 71.4 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 23.5, while the average is 11.8. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 23.5

    Selling or bartering some products at local markets.

    Very Low
  2. 13.5

    Making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household

    Very Low
  3. 12.3

    Storing or carrying out some processing of their produce

    Very Low
  4. 11.8

    Hunting or trapping animals mainly to obtain meat, milk, hair, skin or other products

    Very Low
  5. 11.3

    Catching fish and gathering other forms of aquatic life

    Very Low
  6. 9

    Building and maintaining houses and other shelters

    Very Low
  7. 7

    Fetching water and gathering firewood

    Very Low
  8. 5.8

    Gathering wild fruits, roots and medicinal and other plants

    Very Low

8 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
41
AI does it for you
20

Helping wins by 21 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 8999

Compared with similar jobs

There are 18 jobs in the “Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers” group, averaging 83.3. This one is above that.