BC Landed Values Set New Record By Topping $60 Million in 1966
A new level of $60,788,000 in total landed values was achieved by British Columbia fishermen last year, with increased landed values recorded by all segments of the industry except the herring fishery.
The annual report issued last week by the federal fisheries department's regional office in Vancouver showed that salmon landings in 1966 totalled almost 170 million pounds in round weight, up sharply from 95 million pounds in the previous year.
Value of salmon landings reached a record $39 million, an increase of $14 million from 1965, surpassing the previous high of $37.1 million in 1958.
Record coho landings amounted to 38.7 million pounds with a landed value of $11.9 million, representing a catch of 5.4 million fish.
Sockeye landings of 26.5 million pounds with a landed value of $9.8 million were the highest since 1961 although far short of the record $20.8 million returns achieved in 1958.
The third highest pink salmon catch ever recorded totalled 73.5 million pounds valued at $8.6 million, double the 1964 cycle year catch but about 20 million pounds short of the 1962 record.
SPRING PRODUCTION RISES
Total landings of 15.3 million pounds brought spring salmon
production in 1986 close to equalling the record 1963 figure and gave a record landed value of $6.7 million, up from the previous high of $5.6 million in 1965.
Chum salmon production increased almost 100 percent over lion to over five million pounds.
Fishermen in all sections of the salmon fishery achieved higher returns in 1966, with gillnetters reporting total landed values of $15 million, up $5 million from 1965 and outstripping their previous high figure in 1958 by $300,-000.
Landings by seiners were valued at $10.1 million, up $6 million from the previous year but well below the $15.6 million in landed values achieved in 1958.
Troll caught salmon landings for 1966 were valued at a record $13.8 million, up from $11.7 million in 1965, $10.4 million in 1964 and $7.8 million in 1963.
TRAWL LANDINGS UP
BC fishermen landed 32 million pounds of halibut in Canadian and US ports in 1966, down one million pounds from the previous year, but record unit prices increased the landed value of the catch to an all time high of $11.5 million.
Herring production showed a sharp decline with 153,800 tons landed valued at $5.1 million, down from 222,000 tons in 1965 and 286,000 tons in 1963.
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Landings of trawl caught fish increased 25 percent in 1966 to a record level of 50 million pounds with a value to fishermen of $3.4 million.
Grey cod landings of 20,707 pounds valued at $1.4 million were up from 19,223 pounds harvested in 1965 and represented an average price of 6.9 cents a pound to fishermen.
Sole landings of 10.5 million pounds valued at $676,000 showed a 65 percent increase over the 1965 total and were second only to the 1952 landings of 14.4 million pounds.
LING COD RECORD
All time high landings of ling cod were reported in 1966, with over five million pounds produced for a total value of $603,000 to fishermen, up from about 4.4 million pounds valued at $457,000 in 1985.
Landings of ocean perch increased 65 percent from three million to over five million pounds during 1966 while catches of flounders and skate showed a decline from 259,000 pounds to 234,-000 pounds.
Total shellfish catches produced a landed value of $1.7 million, up slightly from the previous year. Shrimp production declined slightly but the lower catch was offset by higher average prices. Crab fishermen increased their catch from 3.5 million pounds to 4.5 million pounds in 1966.
A total harvest of almost 2.5 million pounds of clams in 1966 represented an 18 percent increase from the previous year, while oyster shuckings totalling 134,336 gallons, down 10 percent from 1955, resulted in increased returns of six percent because of higher unit prices.
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In a letter to federal fisheries minister H. J. Robichaud at that time the Union called for an investigation of charges that the Golden Scarab, built with a federal government subsidy, was operating with a largely non-Canadian crew and delivering her catches in foreign ports.
Use of taxpayers' money to finance vessels for development of new fisheries was being misused in the case of the Golden Scarab to provide jobs for Americans, Costa Ricans and other foreign nationals and to supply the fishing industries of other countries, the Union said.
A reply received from the minister conceded that the UFAWU charges were "substantially accurate" and then went on to relay the owner's allegation that he had encountered difficulty maintaining a Canadian crew and that some of those he had hired were unsatisfactory for a number of unsubstantiated reasons.
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