Full-time and part-time fishermen
Figures were provided for 1973–75; 1976 figures were not yet available, and a standardised definition changed how some 1975 fishermen were classified.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the number of persons engaged as full-time and part-time fishermen during the years 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Comment on this
The information requested in respect of the first three years listed is as follows:—
The corresponding information for 1976 will not be available until about mid-February, 1977.
Since 1975 the description "full-time" has been standardised on a national basis and defined as a person who in the year under review has been engaged in fishing for periods totalling at least six months.
In 1975 there were 285 fishermen recorded as "part-time" who would have been regarded as "full-time" in previous years.
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