July 12, 1963
THE FISHERMAN'
Page 7
You Have the Floor
West Coast Trailer Calls For Protest to Robichaud
Editor, The Fisherman:
Through the alert powers of observation of a Ucluelet based trol-ler, our federal department of fisheries received knowledge of the presence of Russian draggers op-
Where Are We Going?
Editor, The Fisherman:
I recall a joke I once read. When a general scolded a colonel for moving his office into a toilet in the Pentagon, the colonel replied, "This is the only room in the Pentagon where anybody seems to know what he's doing."
After reviewing the USA's past actions in international affairs, I am beginning to wonder if the story wasn't true after all.
To mention several incidents, their fumbling interference in the internal troubles of Korea, Cuba and Laos have endangered world peace.
Even their friendly agreements cannot be trusted. Britain scrapped her missile program for the Sky-bolt missile project. Without any forewarning the USA scrapped it and forced our mother country to accept the Polaris missile instead.
When the minister of fisheries, H. J. Robichaud, met with our representatives in Vancouver he seemed so sincere when he asserted that we would get a full hearing before a new North Pacific Treaty would be negotiated. Now, I wonder if J. F. Kennedy phoned Pearson and told the old boy to sign on the dotted line.
We have elected so many Mc-Goos to Ottawa that it would be hard to tell which is a crooked deal or plain blind fumbling.
IVAN ADAMS
Prince Rupert, BC
Tuna Tieup In US Ends
A month long tieup of tuna vessels at San Diego and San Pedro, California, ended July 5 when fishermen and canners agreed on prices $40-$50 a ton below those paid to April 20 and S60-S70 a ton below those paid last year.
New prices are: Terminal Island: yellowfish $240: skipjack $200: blue-fish $220 a ton. San Diego: yellow-fish $250; skipjack $210 for fish six pounds and over, $200 for fish under six pounds; bluefish $210 a ton.
The tieup idled nearly half the California based tuna fleet for about a month and some 60 vessels packing nearly 15,000 tons of tuna under brine refrigeration were awaiting a settlement to begin unloading at agreement time..
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I orating in 50 fathoms, 12 miles off I Tofino, Vancouver Island, BC.
Upon receiving such news, our western regional director of fisheries stated such news is alarming.
Alarming indeed, Mr. Hourston! Apparently he is not aware of the consequences confronting the working fisherman thanks to those poor misguided big wheels representing private interests whose opinions were considered more valuable than those of the fishermen when the selection of representatives to attend the International North Pacific Fisheries Treaty was finalised.
The moment those responsible signed this bonanza Canadian goodwill giveaway of our fishing industry to the Japanese government, automatically the same goodwill hand was extended to the Russians, and before too long the Portuguese fleet will join the happy throng. Come one, come all.
The pity of it all is that these giveaway artists did not actively take part in World War 2, otherwise they would think twice before selling our country down the drain for the almighty dollar.
The vast fishing industry combine in BC does not utter a word of protest because the past has proven its instability of integrity toward the interest of the common fisherman through the import of canned immature salmon from Japan, as well as tuna and whale, and last but not least having Japanese whalers and skippers operating vessels here. Talk about cut throat tactics to help bankrupt the BC fisherman!
Through the use of these callous principles, the fishing industry combine is gradually turning our form of democracy into a state of hypocrisy.
The day is past for the fisherman to sit in the beer parlor or in his galley to ponder over the problems confronting the fishing industry, or wondering if the fisheries department is concerned over the interests of the big wheels rather than the problems of the individual fisherman. We as individual fishermen must place our protest in the right direction and in writing. Send all protests or constructive suggestions to H. J. Robichaud, minister of fisheries, Ottawa. If you too do not appreciate his evasive answers to questions based on common sense, surely we can have him replaced by a man who will respect the humble opinions of fishermen.
Without fishermen to bring in the fish, how would cogs become big wheels in the fishing combine of BC?
Let us unite in a firm policy to clean up the grasping cobwebs within the industry and through constructive observation and criticism help to create a fisheries department we can be proud to cooperate with in the common interest of conservation, which in turn will create a vast production, and I don't mean for Japanese or Russian nets to profit by.
LLOYD PHILLIPS
(M/V I'llaway)
Tofino. BC
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FAR NORTH PATROL Top: Mrs. Grant, wife of Central Area fisheries director G. L. Grant of Winnipeg, receives a presentation from Earl Brunt of Finning Tractor and Equipment Company at launching of Rae Point from Stoltz Boat Works. Steveston, while her husband and Bob Stoltz (extreme right) look on. Bottom left: Stoltz and Grant smile their approval as Mrs. Grant takes a vigorous —and accurate—swing at the vessel's bow to send her on her way. Bottom right: The fisheries department's newest patrol vessel, intended for service on Great Slave Lake, displays the sweeping lines of her fast planing hull as she rides the water.
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The BC trade union movement has taken the stand of boycotting the air line.
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Fisheries Patrol Vessel Takes Long Trip—by Land
The new fisheries patrol boa# Kae Point will leave on her first and longest trip this weekend — overland by rail to Manning, Alberta, and then 350 miles by road to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. From a base at Hay River, the**
Esquimalt Harbor Closed To All Fishing by Nets
Waters of Esquimalt Harbor have been closed to all net fishing by an order in council, effective immediately, amending BC fishery regulations.
The order prohibits fishing "by means of nets of any kind or des-j cription in the waters of Esquimalt I Harbor inside a straight line j drawn from the light on Fisgard Island to the Scroggs Rock Buoy, thence in a northeasterly direction to the fishing boundary sign on Vancouver Island."
Announcing the closure, Pacific area fisheries director W. R. Hourston said:
Rae Point will patrol the white fish and lake trout fisheries on Great Slave Lake, 10,719 square miles in area and the ninth largest lake in the world.
During the postwar years the Great Slave Lake freshwater fisheries have grown to the point where now they produce a catch of some six million pounds a year, providing a livelihood for 250 commercial fishermen.
Reports of lake trout ranging up to 40 pounds and more have spread the fame of the lake throughout the continent with the result that it attracts an increasing number of sports fishermen every year.
The Rae . Point will be used mainly in patrolling sports fishing areas when she is placed in service, probably at the end of this month.
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Built at a fully equipped cost of approximately $40,000, the Rae Point has a semi - planing fibre-glass hull designed by Vancouver naval architect Hugh McQuillan.
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