APPENDIX IV APPENDIX IV 
Age and Size Groups of the Deep-Sea Trawler Fleet 
December 31, 1974 
Gross Age in years 
registered Num=- Per=- Under From 5 From 10 From U5 
tons (GRT) ber cent 5 Eq) © EOu A reo) I) 
650 co 999 34 ANS eng 0 3 Pal 10 
1FAOOO MEO IOO TS AG DAM ots aft 10 5 0 
2 00). to) 2H OOS) “ALL 14.9 0 9 2 0 
3770,010) co. *3, 599, 13. WAS L3, 210) 0) po) 
Total 74 100.0 14 22. 28 10 
Percent of vessels 
in age groups: 13}. 6.9) DOT Siero itSho 
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OWNERSHIP, EMPLOYMENT, AND WAGES 
The ownership of the entire deep-sea trawler fleet is 
divided among four private companies, three of which are sub- 
sidiaries of multinational firms. The four companies are 
organized into an association and are encouraged and re- 
gulated under German cartel law. The remainder of the fleet, 
including cutters, luggers, and coastal fishing craft, are 
mostly independently owned and operated. The owners of cutters 
and luggers are members of cooperatives, some of the co- 
Operatives being the equivalent of producer organizations. 
The number of crew members employed in the fleet totaled 
5,758 as of September 30, 1974; it was 5,948 the previous 
year. This number includes 1,221 owners and charterers, 891 
hired officers, and 3,646 others, such as deck hands, cook- 
ing and service personnel, machine operators, and fish pro- 
cessing workers. 
The wage rates of workers on the deep-sea trawlers are 
negotiated between the employees" unions and the trawler com- 
panies and average about $3 per hour. The wage rates consist 
of a base rate plus a certain bonus based on the fish catch. 
In the remainder of the fleet the predominant basis of wage 
determination is a percent of the catch proceeds as agreed to 
by the vessel operator and the workers. 
Closely related to employment aboard vessels is the 
emplovment of workers to unload the fishing vessels. At Bre- 
merhaven, the largest of the four major fishing ports, about 
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