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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 All AI Reviewed

BARBARA E. WARD

respectively. In each decade the male population is halved or almost halved. Row 2 in the same table makes it clear that the differences cannot be explained by an unusually larger number of hired men (many of whom may be presumed to have been temporary residents) in the preceding box.

Table 2

Kau Sai Boat Population 1953: males by age group and incidence of masters and hired men, all types of fishing.

9 years & under 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 Over 60 Totals Total males, 1953 74 48 62 40 24 12 8 267 Some children not recorded, and excluding 2 long-liners Of Whom Hired men 0 2 20 2 3 0 1 28 All but 2 on purse-seiners Masters, boats 0 0 4 23 19 11 2 59 Excludes 2 long-liners ages not recorded Of Whom Masters, firms1 0 0 1 15 14 8 1 40 1i.e. Operating units working as a single business. In 1953 among purse-seiners this was normally a pair of boats; among liners and others a single boat. This row contains an element of double counting, masters of firms being also masters of boats.

In the following table [Table 3], which should be read in conjunction with the last, the word eligible means 'with family status', that is, hired men are excluded. The element of double counting occurring in the last table is not repeated here, purse-seine masters being divided into those who were merely masters of single boats and those who were leaders of their pairs as well as masters of single boats. In practice, as we shall see, the degree of independence of the former varied quite widely.

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90 BARBARA E. WARD respectively. In each decade the male population is halved or almost halved. Row 2 in the same table makes it clear that the differences cannot be explained by an unusually larger number of hired men (many of whom may be presumed to have been temporary residents) in the preceding box. Table 2 Kau Sai Boat Population 1953: males by age group and incidence of masters and hired men, all types of fishing. 9 years & under 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 Over 60 Totals Total males, 1953 74 48 62 40 24 12 8 267 Some children not recorded, and excluding 2 long-liners Of Whom Hired men 0 2 20 2 3 0 1 28 All but 2 on purse-seiners Masters, boats 0 0 4 23 19 11 2 59 Excludes 2 long-liners ages not recorded Of Whom Masters, firms1 0 0 1 15 14 8 1 40 1i.e. Operating units working as a single business. In 1953 among purse-seiners this was normally a pair of boats; among liners and others a single boat. This row contains an element of double counting, masters of firms being also masters of boats. In the following table [Table 3], which should be read in conjunction with the last, the word eligible means 'with family status', that is, hired men are excluded. The element of double counting occurring in the last table is not repeated here, purse-seine masters being divided into those who were merely masters of single boats and those who were leaders of their pairs as well as masters of single boats. In practice, as we shall see, the degree of independence of the former varied quite widely.

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90 BARBARA E. WARD respectively. In each decade the male population is halved or almost halved. Row 2 in the same table makes it clear that the differences cannot be explained by an unusually larger number of hired men (many of whom may be presumed to have been temporary residents) in the preceding box. Table 2 Kau Sai Boat Population 1953: males by age group and incidence of masters and hired men, all types of fishing. 9 years 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 Over Totals & under 60 Total Some chil- males, 1953 74 48 62 40 24 12 8 267 dren not recorded, Of Whom Hired 0 2 20 2 3 0 0 1 1 men and exclud- ing 2 long- liners 28 All but 2 on purse-seiners Masters, boats 0 0 4 23 19 11 2 59 Excludes 2 long-liners ages not recorded Of Whom Masters, firms! 0 0 1 15 14 8 1 40 do. 1i.e. Operating units working as a single business. In 1953 among purse-seiners this was normally a pair of boats; among liners and others a single boat. This row contains an element of double counting, masters of firms being also masters of boats. > In the following table [Table 3], which should be read in conjunction with the last, the word eligible means 'with family status', that is, hired men are excluded. The element of double counting occuring in the last table is not repeated here, purse- seine masters being divided into those who were merely masters of single boats and those who were leaders of their pairs as well as masters of single boats. In practice, as we shall see, the degree of independence of the former varied quite widely.

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Table 2

Kau Sai Boat Population 1953: males by age group and incidence of masters and hired men, all types of fishing.

9 years 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 Over

Totals

& under

Total

Some chil-

males, 1953

74 48 62 40 24

12 8

267 dren not

recorded,

Of Whom

Hired

0 2

2 3 0

1 1

men

and exclud- ing 2 long- liners

28 All but 2 on

purse-seiners

Masters, boats

0 0

19 11 2

59 Excludes 2

long-liners ages not recorded

Of Whom Masters, firms!

0 0 1 15

14 8 1 40

do.

1i.e. Operating units working as a single business. In 1953 among purse-seiners this was normally a pair of boats; among liners and others a single boat. This row contains an element of double counting, masters of firms being also masters of boats.

In the following table [Table 3], which should be read in conjunction with the last, the word eligible means 'with family status', that is, hired men are excluded. The element of double counting occuring in the last table is not repeated here, purse- seine masters being divided into those who were merely masters of single boats and those who were leaders of their pairs as well as masters of single boats. In practice, as we shall see, the degree of independence of the former varied quite widely.

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