Bonilla Point Light Improvements Made
The blinker light on Bonilla Point has been strengthened and increased in height, Pacific area fisheries director W. R. Hourston advised Harry Allison, secretary of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' navigational aids committee, this week.
Improvements in the light were asked in a resolution adopted by the Union's twentieth annual convention last March and subsequently taken up with the fisheries department by the committee.
An announcement made by the department this week advised fishermen that "the characteristics of the light established each summer on Bonilla Point to assist fishermen in determining their
position in relation to the Bonilla-Tatoosh line have been changed to make the light more readily visible to the fishing fleet.
"The height of the light has been raised and now stands at 32 feet above high water mark. A larger bulb has been installed in an effort to increase the candle power.
"As in the past, the light is flashing red east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line and flashing white west of the line.
"A square slatwork day mark painted international airport orange with a white vertical stripe in the centre is located on the mast below the light to assist fishermen in marking its location during daylight hours."
Co-op Not Settled
Union, Operators Sign Shoreworker Pacts
Shoreworkers agreements with the Fisheries Association were signed by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union this week after fresh fish and cold storage workers voted 91 percent to accept the Association's offer.
The offer contained two minor additions to the Association's offer of July 10 which was submitted as a substitute for the conciliation board majority award.
Cannery, net and reduction plant workers previously had voted 67.8 percent against strike action, in effect accepting the Association's July 10 offer.
Fresh fish and cold storage workers, however, had voted 66.8 percent on the same ballot for strike action to support the negotiating committee's recommendation to reject the July 10 offer.
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The new offer provides five cents an hour increase in semi qualified filleter rates and overtime after the regular quitting time for fresh fish and cold storage workers at out of town plants.
Separate negotiations held with BC Ice and Cold Storage have produced additional increases for charge hands, jeep drivers and tallymen. Charge hands will now receive $2.75 an hour and jeep drivers and tallymen will get an additional 10 cents an hour for time actually spent at such work.
Shoreworker negotiations with Prince Rupert Fishermen's Cooperative Association have still to be resolved, with the main issue in dispute management's proposal to reduce wages paid by the Co-op to the level of those paid by Association companies.
This would strip Co-op shore-workers of the one half of one percent gain they made over Association company rates in 1963.
The Union negotiating committee is scheduled to meet with the Co-op management on August 14.
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THE FISHERMAN - August 7, 1964
Union Opposes Proposal To End Layup Program
Opposition to a proposal em anating from the Fishing Vessel Owners Association in Seattle for termination of the halibut layup program in Area 2 for the balance of the season has been voiced by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union.
"As you know, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to organise membership meetings of halibut fishermen during the middle of the season. That is why layup changes are submitted to conferences held during the winter months," the Union informed Clarence Nordahl, secretary of the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union in Seattle and chairman of the layup conference.
"We do not believe any officers or port delegates have the power to alter the basic layup program without making sure all halibut fishermen are given the opportunity to express their views.
"Therefore we cannot agree with the suggestion that termination of layup can be made effective on August 10."
In his letter notifying the Union of the Seattle Vessel Owners' request, Nordahl stated: REASONS FOR REQUEST
"Some of the reasons for this request other than the poor catches of most Area 2 boats to date are:
"The International Pacific Halibut Commission figures (published by the US bureau of commercial fisheries Market News Service) show 13,100,000 pounds of halibut landed from Area 2 to July 20. This is a little more than one half of the quota.
"It also states that landings are expected to be lower during the remainder of the 1964 season which ends September 15 regardless of attainment of the quota. At this rate, the catch could be as much as five million pounds under the quota.
"By terminating the layup program in Area 2, it is estimated that one to two million pounds more could be caught.
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"The closer the fleet can come to catching the quota of 25 million pounds, the better off US and Canada will be in their negotiations with Japan.
"The proposed date for termination of the layup program is Area 2, in my opinion, should be set for 12 noon, August 10.
"I request that your organisation give this request serious consideration and notify me of your action as soon as possible, by phone or wire.
"You will be notified of the action taken at the various ports as soon as I have received their replies. I propose that a majority of the ports would have to favor termination of layup in order to put it in force."
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Stating its reasons for opposing the proposal, the UFAWU, through president H. Steve Stavenes and secretary Homer Stevens, said:
1— The lower landings in Area 2 are obviously not due to the effect of the layup program. The program has been in effect for many years during which quotas were achieved without difficulty.
2— The International Pacific Halibut Commission issued a warning in June that the decline in Area 2 may indicate depletion and more stringent regulations may be necessary for conservation. Removal of layup would be contrary to any concept of conservation of halibut, under these circumstances.
3— The negotiations with Japan will never succeed, unless there is a new approach taken leading to an all inclusive treaty. Removal of the layup program or amending it is no answer to the major problems.
4— We do not agree that the closer we come to catching the quota, the better off we will be in dealing with Japan. If we are
unable to catch the quota, then it seems more than likely the quota must be revised downward. To presume that termination of the layup strengthens conservation is illogical. To presume that our layup program is preventing full use of the stocks is equally illogical. If we abandon the layup program for the balance of the season in order to avoid an argument with the Japanese, the next step would be to abandon the entire program. In our opinion, there is no need for us to back down to any illogical and unfounded claims by Japan.
"In our view," the Union concluded, "we need concerted efforts by all halibut fishermen's organisation to strengthen conservation measures, to curb the Japanese, to bring the Soviet fleets under a joint conservation treaty, and to improve and strengthen our entire layup program ..."
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