cost which should be allocataci to baito An exa:nination of the table 

 ■will show that the licensing charges are costly „ A vessel of 200 

 net tons, for examplej, would pay over $2,000 (Uo So) for a 90-day 

 Mexican fishing license alorif, not counting additional fees for an- 

 nual registratior-j bait sei-'ies, and :'.r«s-»'-4neinbttrs' personal licenses* 

 An Ecuadoran license for tiw sama size vessel, good for 100 days, 

 wc'uld 30st $2,1400 (UoSo), plus -in add:.tional charge for annual 

 registrations Other countries hav« varying charges as shown in the 

 table. Some boats use more than one country's license on a trip. 

 The American Timaboat Assoc.raiiion has furnished an estimate that the 

 cost of Mexican licenses for itii members approximates $13 per ton of 

 tuna caught by the vessels with the licenses, but similar information 

 concerning the o\'er-ali cost cf foreign licenses is not available o 

 It is impossible to be coiiple-vely categorical as to the particular 

 foreign licenses taken by various boats, but in general, these are 

 as follows: Snail boats (lOO-tcn carrying capacity or less) take a 

 Mexican license, medium boats (mors than 100 tons up to 200 tons) 

 usually take a Mexican liceiiise, and large boats (over 200 bons) 

 frequently tak« a license in Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, or other 

 countries. 



TBffi FACTOR IN B/iIT PROCUREMENT 



Although other costs undoubtedly exist, they must be shown in 

 a different way, Thers is, for example, a material cost of time in 

 the baiting activity. In the absenc'* of published data the time 

 factor for the baiting activity has been estiinated according to the 

 following method of samplings. Information was obT:ained frcm 13 

 vessels in the San Diego baic fleet, selected to give a cross-section 

 of the three slisci groups (100 toricS capacity or lu^ssj more "chan 100 

 to 200 tons, and over 200 tons) wliich shosv-s that an average of 17 

 percent of these vessels' time at sea in the year 195'2y^ was devoted 

 to securing bait. Variations for inJividual boats ranged from 9 per- 

 cent to 33 percent, with rj*arly all within the range of 12 percent 

 to 20 percent. 



Assuming t!:iat the fig-art; of 17 per3ent baiting time is typical 

 for an average year, the nurdbei' of days at sea devoted to taking bait 

 may be calculated as follovjs. Records for a typical n^jmber of bait boats 

 in each size class for 1950 reveal that an average of 2^6 days per vessel 

 were spent at sea in tliat year. Thus the average baiting time per vessel 

 would be I4I4 daj'S per yearp 



1^ 19^2 data used in absencv^ of any other, 



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