TITLE VI— FISHERMEN 



1. Attachment of Fishermen's Wages 

 46 U.S.C. 601 



§601. Attachment or arrestment of wages; support of 

 wife and minor children; State tax laws. 



No wages due or accruing to any master, seaman, 

 or apprentice shall be subject to attachment or ar- 

 restment from any court, and every payment of 

 wages to a master, seaman, or apprentice shall be 

 valid' in law, notwithstanding any previous sale or 

 assignment of wages or of any attachment, encum- 

 brance, or arrestment thereon: and no assignment 

 or sale of wages or of salvage made prior to the 

 accruing thereof shall bind the party making the 

 same, except such allotments as are authorized by 

 this title. This section shall apply to fishermen em- 

 ployed on fishing vessels as well as to seamen: Pto- 

 wded. That nothing contained in this or any pre- 

 ceding section shall interfere with the order by any 

 court regarding the payment by any master or sea- 

 man of any part of his wages for the support and 

 maintenance of his wife and minor children: And 



■provided iurther, That no part of the wages due or 

 accruing to a master, officer, or any other seaman 

 who is a member of the crew on a vessel engaged In 

 the foreign, coastwise, intercoastal. Interstate, or 

 noncontiguous trade shall be withheld pursuant to 

 the provisions of the tax laws of any State, Terri- 

 tory, possession, or Commonwealth, or a subdivision 

 of any of them. (Mar. 4. 1915, ch. 153, § 12, 38 Stat. 

 1169; Sept. 14, 1959, Pub. L. 86-263, 73 Stat. 551: 

 Apr. 25. 1968, Pub. L. 90-293, I 1(d). 82 Stat. 108.) 



Amendments 



1968 — Pub. L. 90-293 substituted "master, seaman, or 

 apprentice" for "seaman or apprentice" wherever appear- 

 ing and substituted "master or seaman" for "seaman" in 

 provision prohibiting Interference with court orders re- 

 garding the payment of a portion of wages for the support 

 and maintenance of a wife and minor children. 



1959— Pub. L. 86-263 added proviso prohibiting with- 

 holding from seamen's wages for State, Territory or Com- 

 monwealth taxes. 



2. Exemption of Fishermen From Fair Labor Standards Act 



29 UJS.C. 213(a)(5) 



I §213. Exemptions. 



(a) The provisions of sections 206 (except subsec- 

 tion (d) in the case of paragraph (1) of this sub- 

 section) and 207 of this title shall not apply with 

 respect to — 



(5) any employee employed in the catching, 

 taking, propagating, harvesting, cultivating, or 

 farming of any kind of fish, shellfish. Crustacea, 

 sponges, seaweeds, or other aquatic forms of ani- 

 mal and vegetable life, or in the first processing, 

 canning or packing such marine products at sea 



as an incident to, or in conjunction with, such 

 fishing operations, including the going to and re- 

 turning from work and loading and unloading 

 when performed by any such employee; or 



(As amended June 23, 1972. Pub. L. 92-318, title IX, 

 § 906(b)(1), 86 Stat. 375.) 



Amendments 

 1972 — Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92-318 inserted "(except 

 subsection (d) in the case of paragraph (I) of this sub- 

 section)" following introductory text "sections 206". 



See. 

 531. 



633. 



3. Fishermen's Cooperative Association 



15 UJS.C. 521-522 



Fishing industry: associations authorized: aquatic 

 products defined: marketing agencies: require- 

 ments. 



Monopolies or restraints of trade: service of com- 

 plaint by Secretary of the Interior: hearing; order 

 to ceaae and desist: Jurisdiction of district court. 



§521. Fishing industry; associations authorized; 

 aquatic products defined; marketing agencies; re- 

 quirements. 



Persons engaged in the fishery industry, as fisher- 

 men, catching, collecting, or cultivating aquatic 

 products, or as planters of aquatic products on public 



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