EVERYBODY OUT
TELL YOUR MPs, MLA
FRASER CLOSURE PROTEST MEETING
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7-2 P.M.
FORT LANGLEY COMMUNITY HALL
MPs George Hahn, A. B. Patterson, and MLA George Massey will be present. All Delta by-election candidates have been asked to attend.
ALL FRASER RIVER FISHERMEN OUT!
• Sponsored by Fort Langley and Albion Locals of UFAWU, Katzie Branch
of Native Brotherhood.
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Representing the Organised Fishermen and Shoreworkers of British Columbia
VOL. XIX No. 28
VANCOUVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 3, 1957
Union's Popular PNE Display
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• Thousands saw the Union PNE display on salmon and power in the Commercial Building and most of them came away Impressed with the fisheries side of the story. Moving pictures, including the latest "Struggle for Survival" were shown, talks given and vast amounts of literature distributed. TOP photo catches a few of the passing crowd looking and listening. Maps show fishing, spawning area (upper left) and power sites, actual and potential, including present thermal installations (right). The diorama in the next picture portrays high level and low level dams in actual operation with fish ladders on the smaller structure. BOTTOM, an interested group of people listen and watch as Union public relations director Tom Parkin explains the maps and gives the fishing industry's side of the fish-power problem. Reception was excellent with the public almost unanimously favoring protection of salmon runs and public ownership of power.
—FISHERMAN FOTO
Union Asks Reopening For Fall Chum Prices
The United Fishermn and Allied Workers Union has served written notice on. the Fisheries Association to reopen the fall chum price minimums as provided for in the salmon price agreement.
In an August 29 letter to the Association, Union secretary Homer Stevens has requested a negotiating meeting as speedily as possible and action in this regard is expected within the next few days.
Locals of the Union anc^mem-bership meetings at various points have been discussing the minimum price issue and the central negotiating committee will draft its proposals for 1957 on the basis of their recommendations.
Unless a new floor pride is negotiated, the minimum will be only 7% cents per pound, the summer price which applies if there is no reopening.
Last year, the fall chum price was reopened and these were the minimums: JoWnstone Strait, Fraser River, including Cape Flattery,
----14 cents per lb.
All other areas except Queen Charlotte Islands
----12 cents per lb.
Queen Charlotte Islands area
____10 cents per lb.
The section of the agreement dealing with fall chum prices states that ". . . either party may, by giving written notice, reopen for negotiation the minimum prices for chums as speci-% fied above. Any revised prices
Delta Public Meet
mutually agreed upon before the conclusion of the season shall be effective, from the date written notice is given but not before September 1, 1957, or if no agreement for revision of these minimum chum prices is arrived at, the above minimum prices shall apply for all chums caught and delivered.
"Any dispute arising out of failure to agree mutually on revised minimum prices for fall chums shall not be governed by Article IX of this Agree-
ment and any action taken under these circumstances, after September 18 of 1957, shall not be considered a violation of the Agreement as a whole. Subject to practicability and to approval by the fishermen engaged in such action, fishing for other species of salmon not involved in the minimum price dispute may be permitted. If such fishing is permitted, it will be conducted under rules and regulations established by the fishermen."
Puget Pink Fishery Cut, Canadian Catch Trails
The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission announced last Friday after a meeting held at the Bellingham Hotel that commercial pink salmon fishing in Puget Sound Convention waters would be limited to three days this week. Canadian pink Salmon fishery
Friday
An all - candidates meeting which is becoming a tradition in Sunbury will be held this Friday, September 6 at 8 p.m. in the Kennedy Hall on Scott Road.
The five candidates in the September 9 Delta by-election have been invited to speak and answer questions at the meeting sponsored jointly by the Sunbury Local and Women's Auxiliary and the Annieville Local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union together with the North Delta Ratepayers' Ass'n.
Candidates include Craig Fraser, Progressive-Conservative; Gordon Gibson, Social Credit; Peter Gid-ora, LPP; Len Shepherd, CCF, Bill Wilson, Liberal and Peter Wolanski, independent.
The meeting called during the last federal election by the Same groups drew a large crowd and produced a spirited discussion.
Sunbury Local secretary Carl Liden reports that many of those who attended the previous meeting urged that one be organised for the current election.
in neighboring Convention waters has been adjusted by permitting fishing in the Fraser River area to start 8 a.m. Monday, September 2 instead of Tuesday, September 3, in order to equalise the catch of pink salmon between the American and Canadian fishermen. Canada's1 catch is currently dropping behind that of the United States.
Senator Reid, chairman of the Commission, said that new fishing regulations effective September 1 would be issued immediately by the Washington and Canadian department of fisheries.
Reid said that unusual flood conditions combined with poor escapements in 1955 had resulted in an even poorer run of pink salmon in Puget Sound this year than was predicted at the Commission's July meeting with the industry.
The Commission controlling the taking of pink salmon for the first time this year was unanimous that drastic action was required to offset the poor spawning conditions and escapement which caused the poor catch of pink salmon this season.
Senator Reid said that the Commission's job was to build up the pink salmon fishery and not contribute to its decline by allow-
ing overfishing by the modern efficient fishing fleet of both countries.
Enter Your Boats In River Races
Fishermen are urged to get into high gear immediately and enter their vessels in boat races scheduled for this Sunday, September 8, at Pitt River Bridge.
There will be various events but special competitions are being planned for fish boats.
Entries must be in as quickly as possible, however, and Saturday is the deadline.. The man in charge of the ambitious annual regatta is Frank Colley of Port Coquitlam. Frank can be contacted any time up to the Saturday deadline by phoning Port Coquitlam 267X, and giving him your entry.
The afternoon's excitement gets underway at one o'clock Sunday, September 8 and carries -en till late afternoon.
Frank reports that already a number of entries have been received including several fishing craft and six or eight tugs.
The affair is held under, the auspices of the Pitt River Boat Club.
Advance Poll In Richmond
Steveston fishermen and shore-workers who may be away from home on election day can vote in the Delta by-election advance poll and this time they won't have far to travel to get to the polling booth.
An advance poll has been established at the office of the Richmond Review, 604 Number 3 Road, as indicated in the last issue of The Fisherman.-
Original plan was to have one poll only, at Bolivar Hatcheries, 13325 Trans-Canada Highway in Whalley, but now there are two. Advance polls are open from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September 5, 6, and 7 at the two locations.
Advance poll times are * the same for Burnaby voters, with the only advance poll located at Rio Vista Inn, 4343 Grandview-Douglas Highway.
MPs, MLA, Candidates Out For Langley Protest Meet
The Fort Langley and Albion Locals of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union have joined with the Katzie Branch of the Native Brotherhood of B.C. in promoting a mass meeting of Fraser River fishermen this Saturday to protest the September 15 closure of the upper Fraser. Two MPs and the MLA for
the area will be present at the September 7 meeting, as well as all o^ndidates in the September 9 by-election in Delta. All of them will be asked to support the demand.for keeping the upper River open as long as the lower section is also open.
The meeting, scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in the Fort Langley Community Hall, will hear MPs George Hahn (New Westminster) and A. B. Patterson (Praser Valley) and Delta MLA George Massey. The two MPs have on previous occasions expressed their sugport for the up-River fishermen on this issue.
Area 3A Goes Most of Month
A reduced fleet operating in Area 3A coupled with the coastwise curtailment program has resulted in keeping the 1957 Season going at least until Sep tember 21, and possibly later.
No closure announcement had been made as The Fisherman went to press Tuesday, and since the Commission had previously stated it would give 18 days notice of closure, the season must carrv on to late this' month.
Spokesmen for the Union in the Locals point out that they are in effect asking only that the River remain open to September 22, since the International Commission relinquishes its controls after that date. The upper Fraser will thus be closed for the period September 15 to 22 while the rest of the River remains open on the basis of the current set of regulations.
The meeting will highlight renewed efforts of the two Union Locals and Brotherhood to get the new minister of fisheries to take favorable action on this matter. \
ALL - CANDIDATES MEETING
Delta By-Election
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6-8 P.M. Kennedy Hall
SCOTT ROAD
A Question Period Is Provided
Written or Oral
' MEETING SPONSORED BY: Sunbury & Annieville Locals of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union.
Sunbury Women's Auxiliary of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union.
North Delta Ratepayers Association.
