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since the distinction between these two classes depends primarily 

 on the character of the work done rather than the unit of time em- 

 ployed for calculatins: rates of pay. In general, office employees are 

 classified as salaried employees. Other employees, including i)lant 

 workmen, are classed as wage earners. Plant foremen or superin- 

 tendents are classified as salaried cm])loyees unless they are princi- 

 pally engaged in manual labor, in which case they are classified as 

 wage eajners. Active oliicers of corporations are classified as salaried 

 employees. Statistics of wage earners are shown in two forms: The 

 average number employed during the operating season; and the 

 average number employed during the year (the montldy average for 

 the year). 



Transporting trade. — Statistics are obtained on the number of the 

 crew and number of boats and vessels engaged in transporting 

 fishery products from the fishing grounds to port or from port to port. 

 However, if a craft is engaged in catching fish at any time of the year 

 it is included as a fisliing craft rather than as a transporter. 



Publication of data. — Statistics of employment in the fisheries, 

 craft and gear engaged, catch and value of catch, and certain data on 

 industries related to the fisheries are summarized and published in 

 bulletin form as soon as possible after completion of each survey. 

 Later the figures in more detail are included in the annual reports of 

 the Division. 



LOCAI AND SPECIAL SURVEYS 



Landings at certain important United States ports. — Statistics of 

 the landings of aquatic products at the principal New England ports 

 (Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Maine) are obtained 

 in a similar manner. An agent is permanently stationed at each of 

 these ports. His duties include the obtaining of figures daily on the 

 quantity of fish landed by each fishing vessel, the value of such fish 

 landed, information concerning the date of departure and arrival of 

 the vessel, and he also indicates the grounds from wliich the fish were 

 taken and gear used in their capture. These data are forwarded 

 the Bureau, where compilations are made. Products of American 

 fisheries received duty free at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and 

 Portland, Maine, from the treaty coasts of Newfoundland, Magdalen 

 Islands, and Labrador are included in the landings at these ports; 

 however, they are not included in the catch in sectional fishery 

 surveys of the New England States unless they represent a catch by 

 United States vessels. Statistics of these landings are released 

 montldy and annually in bulletin form and detailed data are pub- 

 lished in the annual reports of this Division. Data on the landings 

 at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., have been collected annually 

 since 1893, and those for Portland, Maine, since June 1915. Some 

 data are available for Boston and Gloucester prior to 1893. 



Statistics of the landings of fish at Seattle, Wash., are collected by 

 the Bureau's agent in that city. Landings are classified as those 

 made by American fishing vessels and those received by Seattle 

 wholesale dealers. The landings credited to United States fishing 

 vessels are made by vessels operating distinctly as primary fishing 

 units, usually in the offshore fisheries, while those credited as received 

 by wholesale dealers are usually products of the shore fisheries collected 

 mainly from points in Puget Sound and do not include fish received 



