boat and equipment. In the trawl fisheries the men are guaranteed a 
minimum wage and in addition receive a certain percentage allowed on 
the catch. 22/ Likewise on the floating canneries the men are allowed 
a percentage in addition to regular wages. 
In the smallest coastal units the owner of the boat may be a 
single fisherman or several working in cooperation; in the larger 
coastal units, on the other hand, the owner is likely to be a joint 
stock company with the capital raised among wholesale fish dealers, 
ship-chandlers, bankers and others as well as fishermen. Thus the 
stock company, receiving a substantial share of the profit, may be 
largely or even entirely in the hands of non-fishermen. 23/ In the 
deep-sea operations the boat owner is in many cases a company. 
Japanese fishermen are organized into various types of organiza¬ 
tions — societies and cooperatives; details concerning these are 
given on pages 172 - 177. 
Legislation regulating conditions of work in fishing was almost 
non-existent in 1933 and no recent information is available concerning 
this aspect. 24/ 
22 /In 1930 the percentage was 10 percent of the profit. 
23/ The Economic Development of the Fishing Industry . Published 
by the Tokyo Association for Liberty of Trading, Bulletin No. 7, 1935. 
24/ Industrial Labour in Japan , I. L. 0. Studies and Reports, 
Series A, Geneva, 1933. 
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