September 7, 1962
THE FISHERMAN
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MEETS IN HONOLULU
Commission Airs NP Trawlinq Issue
Top fisheries officials of the three signatory countries to the North Pacific fisheries treaty, United States, Canada and Japan, met at Honolulu in mid-August to discuss a question which could only be answered adequately by inclusion of a fourth, non-signatory country, the Soviet Union, in the discussions.
But though all three signatory countries were fully represented, no Soviet observers attended the week long gathering.
The question, described as complex by an International North Pacific Fisheries Commission release issued August 22, was this:
A Soviet trawl fleet is already fishing the Gulf of Alaska. Japan also wants to send trawl fleets into the Gulf to begin large scale exploitation of bottomfish other than halibut. This however, would increase the threat to halibut stocks, which Japan is committed to abstain from fishing.
The Commission's release reported:
"The main purpose of the special meeting was to discuss ex-
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In 1951-52, he returned to Norway, apparently for a visit, and at the time was salmon net fishing, owning his own boat and seine, according to Overland.
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panding Japanese bottom trawling operations in areas of the eastern North Pacific Ocean where Canadian and United States fishermen fish for halibut with longlines.
"Although Japan, under the terms of a tripartite fisheries treaty, abstains from taking halibut in the eastern Bering Sea and the eastern North Pacific, her fishermen trawl for other species of groundfish in these areas. Since halibut and other groundfish are usually found on the same grounds, a difficult situation has arisen.
JAPANESE PRESSURE
"Up to the present, Japanese bottom trawling operations in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited to very small scale exploratory operations. North of the Aleutian Islands, in the eastern Bering Sea, both Japanese and Soviet trawlers have developed very large bottom-fishing operations.
"Their total catch in 1961 was approximately 1.5 billion pounds. Halibut apparently formed a very small proportion of this catch.
"Entry of a sizeable fleet of trawlers from the USSR, which is not a signatory to the North Pacific treaty, into the Gulf of Alaska has increased the complexity of the problem and strengthened pressure in Japan for entry of her fleets into the Gulf.
"Discussions at the meeting centered on the question of how Japan may exercise her right to fish for species of groundfish other than halibut in the Gulf of Alaska in a way which will minimise damage to the halibut stocks, which Japan has agreed to abstain from fishing . . ."
NO   FINAL CONCLUSIONS
The meeting concluded August 18 without reaching any final conclusions.
"It is believed that the information developed at this meeting will enable the Commission to resolve the joint problems at the 1962 annual meeting, to be held in Seattle in November," the release cautiously predicted.
The Canadian delegation, headed by deputy fisheries minister George R. Clark, was composed of Commissioners John M. Buchanan, Vancouver; James C. Cameron, Pender Harbor; Roger T. Hager, Vancouver; and Dr. A. W. H. Needier and Dr. K. S. Ket-chen of the Nanaimo Biological Station.
Commissioner Masayoshi 11 o , director of the Japanese Fisheries Agency, headed the Japanese delegation, and Commissioner Milton E. Brooding, San Francisco, led the US delegation.
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Under the agreement concluded August 31 with Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Local 475 the workers will get an average wage increase of 36 cents an hour over 18 months and union shop conditions.
The agreement also establishes a precedent in the biscuit industry in this country by providing for seniority rights, a major issue in the dispute with the Company.
The workers struck the plant July 26 after the Company rejected a majority conciliation a w a r d, signed by its own nominee on the board, which would have increased their sub-standard wages by 25 percent. Women started at 75 cents an hour rising to $1.14 after SO days and men at $1.07 rising to $1.80 in some categories.
At Dare Foods' Kitchener plant, however, the established company union is challenging an Ontario Labor Relations Board vote which gave a majority to the International Brewery, Soft Drink and Beverage Dispensers Union.
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As the 1963 expiration date of the tripartite North Pacific fisheries treaty nears, public opinion in Japan is being channelled in a single direction—toward denunciation of the abstention principle in the present treaty between Japan, United States and Canada, and conclusion of a new convention.
The Japanese salmon fishing industry has long been conducting a propaganda campaign against what it considers to be the restrictive aspects of the present treaty. Now, with formation of the Japan Fisheries Society, the campaign is being intensified.
At its first meeiting August 9, reportedly attended by represen-
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Injuries Fatal To QCI Man
A 47 year old Skidegate fisherman, Allan Young, died in Queen Charlotte City Hospital August 19 from injuries received in a fall aboard the seiner Elva M2, on which he was a crew member.
According to reports received by Canadian Fishing Company, the vessel's owners, Young was found unconscious on the deck of the Elva M2 while she was fishing the Honna River flats some two miles from Queen Charlotte City. Apparently he had slipped, striking his head in the fall, although none of the crew witnessed the accident.
He regained consciousness while he was being taken to hospital, but his condition rapidly became worse and he died shortly after being admitted.
Young, who was unmarried, lived with his father, George Young, at Skidegate Mission. He is also survived by four sisters.
A member of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, he first joined the Union in 1951, reentering last year.
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tatives of fishermen's unions and cooperatives, the new Society decided to petition the Japanese government to repudiate the abstention principle in the present treaty.
As indicated by speakers at the meeting, the Society holds the present treaty to be unfair to Japan.
SOCIALIST STAND
The stand taken by the powerful Socialist Party reinforces the prevalent sentiment within the fishing industry.
As reported by Suisan Keizai Shimbun and Wlinato Shimbun, the Socialist Party has decided to oppose any extension of the treaty and will press the government to terminate its membership in the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission when the treaty expires next year.
It plans to question the government's policy at a special session of the Japanese Diet and call for a policy declaration on high seas fisheries based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, conservation of resources and prevention of disputes.
The Socialist Party, in which there is strong feeling that the present treaty was imposed on Japan by the United States, contends that the convention is unequal, not based on scientific findings and inimical to development of the Japanese fishing industry.
FOUR NATION  PACT NEEDED
Although the fate of the convention will be determined by Japan, where the abstention principle is under strong attack, United States and Canada, where feeling against the Japanese midocean salmon fishery is no less strong, no one can ignore the Soviet Union.
Sections, at least, of the Japanese fishing industry hope to compensate in any new tripartite treaty at Canadian and US expense for reduced quotas established in sep-
arate Soviet - Japanese fishing agreements in the northwestern Pacific.
This is only one indication of the necessity of bringing the four major countries with fishing interests in the North Pacific into one convention.
No less impelling reasons are the declining salmon resources of the Soviet Union, United States and Canada alike, and extension into the Gulf of Alaska of Soviet and Japanese trawl fleets, the question which occupied last month's meeting of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission at Honolulu.
Smith Inlet Man Drowns
William Walkus, 29, of Margaret Bay, member of a well known Smith Inlet Reserve family, was drowned at Ocean Falls on August 10, UFAWU secretary Homer Stevens was informed this week in a long distance telephone call from a brother, James Walkus of Allison Harbor.
William Walkus, who fished for BC Packers on the gillnetter Rose, had been a member of the UFAWU for the past three years.
He is survived by his wife, Ida, who is expecting a second child, a three year old daughter, Heather, and several brothers and sisters.
James Walkus, also a UFAWU member, told Stevens he would send a full report of the tragedy to The Fisherman.
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