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proper authority, and claimed the salvage. This applies 

 internationally as well as nationally. The northern English 

 ports work on the same system in drift fishing, but the 

 steam trawlers sail by the week, and in addition to this 

 either the whole or part of the crew will receive a per- 

 centage or poundage of the net earnings. This percentage 

 decreases from the master downwards according to the 

 rating of each hand. On the east coast trawlers and 

 codders work on the same principle, though sometimes the 

 whole crew may be paid by the week, the owner finding the 

 provisions, and no poundage ; but this latter is only done 

 in the case of trawlers sent to a fleet, for there they are 

 under the supervision of the admiral as to shooting and 

 hauling their gear ; and if, when the carrying cutter or 

 steamer comes in, the owner finds that his vessel does not 

 send in on an average as much fish as other vessels at the 

 same fleet, he then ascertains the cause. Codders are some- 

 times entirely on weekly wages. Drifters, on the contrary, 

 are never on weekly wages on this coast, they either sail by 

 the share or by the last, that is, the owner agrees to pay 

 them so much for every last of fish sold irrespective of high 

 or low prices, which he risks, but this system is not nearly 

 so common as formerly. 



Payment by the share is as follows. After the expenses 

 of the voyage, such as ice, salt, provisions, lost and spoilt 

 nets, or any other deductions agreed on, have been de- 

 ducted from the gross earnings, the net proceeds are divided 

 between the owner and crew, very often half and half. 

 Then in this case, as in the former one, the shares for the 

 crew vary from a share and a half for the master to a 

 quarter or half-quarter share for the boy. The trawlers 

 on the south coast are paid similarly to those on the east 

 coast, but the plans of the drifters more nearly resemble 



