The auction figure never travels
It is a real price from a real transaction with a real buyer, and it stops at the skipper.
WHY IT CANNOT BE CHECKED
Two of the three numbers are held by one party.
The settlement is a subtraction and a division. Both inputs are known to the owner and neither is known to the crew.
Deductions are assembled afterwards
Fuel, ice and provisions are tallied when the trip ends, from receipts the crew never see.
Shares were agreed by conversation
Everyone remembers the arrangement slightly differently, and the differences only matter when the catch was poor.
The crew have no standing to ask
Questioning the settlement risks the next trip, and there is no document to point at anyway.
If you own a boat, or crew one.
Being designed, nothing to join. The useful thing is how a settlement actually runs where you are, and what the last argument was about.
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