FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1936 967 
diem or piece-work basis. This, however, is not true in all cases, 
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 calculating rates of pay. In general, office employees are 
classified as salaried employees. Other employees, including plant 
workmen, are classed as wage earners. Plant foremen or superin- 
tendents are classified as salaried employees unless they are princi- 
pally engaged in manual labor, in which case they are classified as 
wage earners. Active officers 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 monthly 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. How- 
ever, if a craft is engaged in catching fish at any time of the year it is 
included as a fishing craft rather than as a transporter. 
Publication of data.—Statisties of employment in the fisheries, craft 
and gear engaged, catch and value of catch, and certain data on indus- 
tries 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. 


LOCAL 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 Boston, 
Mass., and another is assigned to the ports of Gloucester, Mass., 
and Portland, Maine. . Their 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 they also indicate the grounds from which the 
fish were taken and gear used in their capture. These data are for- 
warded to 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, Mag- 
dalen 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 
monthly 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 col- 
lected mainly from points in Puget Sound and do not include fish 
