August 4, 1961
THE FISHERMAN
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Substantial Pink Catches Reported Throughout Coast
Substantial pink catches from the Nass River south to Johnstone Strait were reflected in averages for July 31 and August 1 reported by the fisheries department this week.
In the Nass area, 15 seiners fish-
Salmon Pack Goes Half Million Case
Current
Season Comparison with
July 29 July 30 Aug. 1
1961 1960 1959
Over Mark
Previous Years
July 26 1958
July 27 1957
SOCKEYE ........... ......... 281,687 117,100 92,161 190,036 90,208
Increase over prev. week 112,995 41,093 3,884 64,572 52,018
SPRINGS 3,692 3,249 6,447 4,105 4,387
Increase over prev. week 1,061 681 483 900 969
STEELHEADS 356 258 279 534 207
Increase over prev. week 133 46 8 168 109
BLUEBACK3 ... ..... 11,114 1S,578** 9,408 9,966 7,361
Increase over prev. week —2,232** 263 421 1,855
COHO .................................. 104,952 24,936 86,538 14,970 •47,652
Increase over prev. week 7,992 4,979 9603 5,175 5,453
PINKS 13G,44' 8C.703 37.427 121,004 *35,691
Increase over prev. week 100,137 45,060 3,543 53,974 26,160
CHUMS ........ 16,822 19,616 33,344 36.644 *28,407
Increase over prev. week 7,465 5,244 556 11,961 12,472
TOTALS, ALL SPECIZS 557,066* 274j440 265,604* 377,259 213,913
Increase over prev. week 230,214 94,871 18,340 137,171 99,036
'Includes 14,231 cases canned from frozen stock. ^Company adjustment.
Newfoundland Herring Change Spawning Habits
Over the past 10 to 12 years, Newfoundland herring have changed spawning habits which had been constant for at least 60 years. They now spawn in practically every month instead of in the spring and fall.
Reporting this conclusion to the Fisheries Research Board of Canada recently, Steinar Olsen, Norwegian fisheries scientist engaged in research work for the Board at St John's, said the change coincided with the grave decline in Newfoundland's' herring fishery.
Previously, Olsen pointed out, herring spawning habits had led to regular migrations with the chang-
UK FISHERMEN EYE LABRADOR
British trawlers are being urged to turn their attention to Labrador to compensate for reduced catches off Iceland and Norway.
The British ministry of agriculture and fisheries recently issued a leaflet reviewing Labrador fisheries and is now including British landings from Labrador in its monthly reports.
In 1959, British landings of cod from Labrador were only 1,000 tons, as compared with 23,000 tons for France, 19,000 tons for Canada, 7,000 tons for Portugal, 6,000 tons for Spain, 3,000 tons for Germany and 500 tons for Italy.
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ing of the seasons. Now herring can be found at almost any time in all stages from spawning to main feeding, although there are peaks at certain times of the year.
"The effect would be a general dispersion of the herring," Olsen says. "Thus, on the south coast, where probably the spread in spawning time is most extreme, no 'large concentrations of herring comparable to those experienced before 1950, say, have been observed for many years, and the traditional Fortune Bay fishery has ceased to exist.
"On the other hand, the herring accumulating in the Bay of Islands-Port au Bay area in late fall appeared still to be mainly spring spawners and it is noticed that the purse seine fishery in this area remained uninterrupted until 1959."
Overseas Visits Backed by ILWU
By a two to one referendum vote, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union has approved a one dollar assessment to send rank and file delegations to observe labor conditions in other countries.
The ILWU convention at Honolulu, Hawaii, in April ordered the vote after receiving the published reports of eight three-member delegations which visited 24 countries last year. As in 1960, members of the delegations will be elected by ILWU locals.
ing on August 1 had an average of 360 sockeye, 1,375 pinks and 80 chums.
On the Skeena, 700 gillnetters fishing the river averaged 45 sock-eye and 195 pinks the same day.
Forty seiners in Ogden Channel averaged 1,300 pinks on August 1, while 38 seiners in Whale Channel averaged 1,520 pinks. The gillnet catch for 29 boats fishing Whale Channel the same day averaged 18 sockeye and 231 pinks.
The gillnet catch in Seaforth Channel on August 1 averaged 18 sockeye, 140 pinks for 40 boats and the seine catch averaged 115 coho, 1,910 pinks, 90 chums for seven boats.
In the Bella Coola gillnet area, 185 gillnetters fishing on August
I had an average of 213 pinks and
II chums.
Gillnet averages for 75 boats in Fitz Hugh Sound on August 1 were 108 pinks, 13 chums, and for 56 seiners fishing the area the same day, 1,075 pinks, 65 chums.
Average catch for 210 gillnetters in Rivers Inlet August 1 was 34 sockeye, 50 pinks.
In upper Johnstone Strait on July 31, 96 seiners averaged 465 sockeye and 550 pinks. The following day in lower Johnstone Strait, seven seiners averaged 445 sockeye and 440 pinks. Six seiners fishing Discovery Pass on August 1 averaged 236 sockeye and 315 pinks.
Gillnet averages for 180 boats in upper Johnstone Strait on July 31 were 41 sockeye and 28 pinks.
In Juan de Fuca Strait, 106 seiners averaged 316 sockeye, 73 pinks on August 1 and 100 seiners averaged 465 sockeye, 125 pinks.
Gillnetters fishing the Strait on August 1 had an average catch of 90 sockeye and five pinks for 240 boots.
FRASER AVERAGES
Fraser River averages from 8 a.m. Monday to 8 a.m. Tuesday this week were:
Mission to New Westminster— 191 boats averaged 76 sockeye, with 406 for the high boat.
New Westminster to Steveston— 26 boats reported for an average of 136 sockeye.
Steveston to Sandheads — 63 boats averaged 99 sockeye, with 297 for the high boat.
Canoe Pass—56 boats averaged 63 sockeye, with 197 for the high boat.
From 8 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Wednesday averages were:
Mission to New Westminster— 101 boats averaged 12 sockeye.
New Westminster to Steveston— 36 boats averaged 15 sockeye.
Steveston to Sandheads — 50 boats averaged 60 sockeye, with 115 for the high boat.
Labor Council Will Seek To Hold Royal City Locals
Vancouver Labor Council secretary Paddy Neale and BC satisfied with an existing situation
Federation of Labor secretary Pat O'Neal will seek a meeting with the executives of IWA Local 1-357 and Street Railway-men Division 134 to discuss withdrawal of the two New Westminster locals from Vancouver and District Labor Council
Letters formally notifying Coun cil of the withdrawals evoked con demnatory statements from a num
ber of delegates when they were read at the last Council meeting.
Both letters expressed dissatisfaction with Council services and policies and particularly with foreign policy resolutions adopted by Council delegates in recent months. IWA Local 1-357 has already withdrawn as of June 30 and Street Railwaymen Division 134 ended its affiliation as of July 31.
Jim Barton (Plumbers) asserted that the IWA' Local was using swing shifts and the difficulty in sending delegates to Council meetings as a argument against remaining in the Council. But other locals had the same problem and all had the right to send alternate delegates.
Referring to the move afoot to set up a separate labor council in New Westminster, he declared:
"This is not the first attempt the individual who signed that letter (Rae Eddie, IWA Local 1-357 secretary and CCF MLA for New
Orange Color Keeps Bacteria Away
Japanese researchers have found that packaging of frozen fish products in colored cellophane during storage prevents rancidity. A deep orange colored cellophane was reported to be the best. The report, carried in the bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries, stated it absorbed all light waves shorter than 540 millimicrons and gave adequate protection against sunlight.
US Oyster Take Lowest In Decade
Figures recently released by the US Bureau of Commercial Fisheries show that last year's oyster harvest of 59 million pounds was the lowest of the past 10 years. It was only 40 percent of the US oyster harvest in 1880.
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"But to set up another council 10 or 12 miles out on the highway is ridiculous." UNITY NEEDED
Dick Greaves (Marine Engineers) proposed that IWA district president Joe Morris should be involved in discussions with the two local executives.
He was supported by Syd Thompson (IWA Local 1-217), who said he was concerned over withdrawal of "a sister local" from the Council. Morris, he pointed out, was also a Canadian Labor Congress vice president, and CLC policy was affected by the withdrawals and proposals to set up a separate council.
"If a council is set up in New Westminster," he said, "instead of costing them six cents per capita it may cost them 10 or 15 cents per capita."
The BC Federation of Labor and Vancouver Labor Council, he continued, "are recognised as the voice of labor and anything done to weaken that voice is just what the bosses want.
"The bosses are doing everything they can to smash the labor movement and unfortunately some sections of the labor movement appear to be doing just what the bosses would like them to do by dividing labor when it needs to be united." ATTACK ON LABOR
William Stewart (Marine Workers) said that if a union were dis-
it had a right to change that situation.
If formation of a New Westminster and Fraser Valley labor council would serve the interests of organised workers in that area better, then it might be necessary to consider setting up such a council.
"But," he declared, "no one reading that letter (from IWA Local 1-357) could be convinced by its arguments.
"It was immediately followed by a slashing attack on the labor movement as a whole.
"The Columbian, the Sun and the Province all leaped in to applaud the withdrawal and denounce this Council.
"If an individual decides to
quit a union, he can expect a pat
on the back from the boss.
"That's what happened in this case when a local decided to quit this Council."
Council, he concluded, had a duty to attempt to convince the workers concerned that withdrawal was neither in their own nor the interests of all organised workers.
Motions instructing Neale to meet with O'Neal and executives of the two locals to discuss the withdrawals and explain the Council's position were unanimously adopted by delegates.
Local Asks Theatre Be Named for Poet
Support for the proposal that Vancouver's new little theatre be named after the poet Pauline Johnson has been voted by Vancouver Local 452 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
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