July 16, 1957
THE FISHERMAN
Page 3
At Readers' Request
International Sockeye Regulations Repeated
Some confusion apparently exists over 1957 sockeye regulations in waters under control of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, and as a result, The Fisherman publishes below the summary of opening and closing dates for gears involved. Following are the times and dates set by the commission, with all times referred to being PACIFIC STANDARD: In U.S. and Canadian Conven
tion waters of Juan de Fuca Strait westerly of a straight line drawn from Angeles Point in Washington across Race Rocks to William Head in British Columbia:
PURSE SEINE — Closed — 5:00 a.m. June 24 to
5:00 a.m. July 22. Open daily 5:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. Monday to Wednesday
inclusive, July 22 to August I
12.
GILLNETS—
Closed 5:00 a.m. June 24 to 5:00 ] p.m. July 22.
Open daily 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.    Monday   evening- to Thursday forenoon, July 22 to August 12. TRAPS —
Closed 5:00 a.m. June 24 to 5:00 a.m. July 22.
Open 5:00 a.m. Monday to 5:00 a.m. Thursday, July 22 to August 12.
CANADIAN WATERS
In Canadian Convention waters easterly of a straight line from Angeles Point in Washington across Race Rocks to William Head in B.C., including all of Dis trict 1 and Areas 17, 18 and that | part of Area 19 not otherwise regulated in the foregoing paragraphs: .
OPEN 7:00 a.m. Tuesday to 7:00 a.m. Friday, June 26 to July 31.
OPEN 7:00  a.m. Tuesday to 7:00 a.m. Thursday, July 31 to September 3. U.S. WATERS
In the U.S. Convention waters easterly of a straight line drawn from Angeles Point in Washington across Race Rocks to William Head in British Columbia:
PURSE SEINE, REEF NET — Open 4:00 a.m. Monday to 9:00 p.m. Wednesdayt June 2G to August 19.
GILLNET — Open 6:00 p.m. Monday to 8:00 a.m. Thursday, June 26 to August 11.
Open 6:00 p.m. Sunday to 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 11 to August 19.
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GEORGE MILLER . . . former UFAWU president in ill-health and unable to work will get boost from friends in industry.
Fleet Asked to Help Ailing Ex-President
General executive board of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has endorsed a collection now being circulated throughout the fishing industry with the aim of paying off the mortgage on the home of former UFAWU president George Miller.
Now in ill-health and no longer
able to work, Miller, with the small pension granted him by the Union, is in extremely difficult circumstances. He must make heavy payments on his home and still manage to live on a gross income of just over $100 per month. His problems have been accentuated with the chronic illness of his wife and his own inability to work.
Doctors report that the popular unionist, still only in his mid-sixties, suffered a series of, minor strokes which have permanently damaged his co-ordination and other faculties, rendering him almost an invalid.
Target of the fund-raising drive is roughly $2,000. This sum would enable the former Union leader to live out his days in modest
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The historic "protocol" to the 1930 sockeye convention between Canada and the United States is a document of extreme importance to the fishermen of British Columbia and Washing-ton, bringing under joint management and control of the two countries the valuable Juan de Fuca-Fraser River pink fisheries.
The protocol provides for a seven-year program of co-ordinated investigation of salmon stocks entering convention waters, an equal division of a catch whose major portion has always been taken by U.S. fishermen, and a 12-member advisory board from the two countries.
Full text of the important document is published on this page.
PROTOCOL to the
Convention between
waters of the United States of ■ to the investigation referred to America,  and  provided  further i in this Article.
3. The Parties shall meet in the
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circumstances without the constant worry of losing his home.
There are many in the industry who have worked with George Miller and who number him among their close friends.
Some of the more recent union members may remember him as business agent of the Vancouver Fishermen's Local for a time prior to his retirement in 1954, still others who have, been around longer will recall him as the first president of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union on its formation in 1945.
The old timers, however, will remember George Miller as one of the men who took on the tough job of organisation in the fishing industry during the early part of the hungry thirties.
George trolled a couple of seasons before tackling the big job of building what was then the Fishermen's and Cannery Workers' Industrial Union.
He set about organising gill-netters and seiners, with hisi greatest success being recorded among the seine men. But there are plenty of gillnetters, at Soin-tula, for example, who will remember George as one of their early contacts with trade unionism, i |j
, He became secretary of the Salmon Purse Seiners' Union when it was formed in the mid-thirties. Then, in 1940, when that organisation amalgamated with the United Fishermen's Federal Union, he became business agent of the latter group.
When these two organisations merged, there was a heavy item in the "accounts payable" of vhe Salmon Purse Seiners Union; an accumulation of George's modest but unpaid salary. George, in typical fashion, wrote off the money so that amalgamation could proceed.
Organisation in those formative years was carried on under tough conditions, little or no money, grub, or gas, with organisers depending on the trade union consciousness of the fishing fleet for these essentials. They were seldom disappointed, though then-circumstances were unenviable even at the best of times.
George was president of the UFAWU from 1945 to 1951, later taking over the post of business agent for the Vancouver Fishermen's Local.
Ill-health forced his retirement in 1954, and the convention that year voted him an honorarium )f $50 per month, later increased :o $100 per month.
The last year has seen George's difficulties increase, as he became unable to handle even part-time work.
With the number of fishermen and shoreworkers who know and respect this builder of trade unionism in the fishing industry, there is every hope that the current collection for George Miller will go over the top. And if it does, it will stand as a tribute to George and the work he has done.
Collection sheets are now in the hands of shop stewards and boat delegates, but if any reader can't locate one of them, he can drop in or send the money to The Fisherman at 301 Powell Street in Vancouver, or to the Fishermen's Hall, 138 j East Cordova Street in Van- j couver.
and the United States, of America for the Protection, Preservation and Extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River System, signed at Washington on the 26th day of May, 1930.
The Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America, desiring to coordinate the programs for the conservation of the sockeye and pink salmon stocks of common concern by amendment of the Convention between Canada and the United States of America for the Protection, Preservation and Extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River System, signed at Washington on the 26th day of May, 1930, hereinafter referred to as the Convention,
Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
The Convention as amended by the present Protocol shall apply to pink salmon with the following exception:
The understanding stipulated in the Protocol of Exchange of Ratifications signed at Washington on July 28, 1937, which provides that "the Commission shall not promulgate or enforce regulations until the scientific investigations provided for in the Convention have been made, covering two cycles of sockeye salmon runs, or eight years;" shall not apply to pink salmon.
ARTICLE II
The following words shall be deleted from the first sentence of Article IV of the Convention:
". . . that when any order is adopted by the Commission limiting or prohibiting taking sockeye salmon in any of the territorial waters or on the High Seas described in paragraph numbered 1 of Article I, such order shall extend to all such territorial waters and High Seas, and, similarly, when in any of the Canadian waters embraced in paragraphs numbered 2 of Article I, such order shall extend to  all such
ARTICLE III
The following paragraph shall be added to Article VI of the Convention:
"All regulations made by the Commission shall be subject to approval of the two Governments with the exception of orders for the adjustment of closing or opening of fishing periods and areas | in any fishing season and of Canada | emergency   orders   required to
carry out the provisions of the Convention."
ARTICLE IV
Article VII of the Convention shall be replaced by the following Article:
"The Commission shall regulate the fisheries for sockeye and for pink salmon with a view to allowing, as nearly as practicable, an equal portion of such sockeye salmon as may be caught each year and an equal portion of such pink salmon as may be caught each year to be taken by the fishermen of each Party."
ARTICLE V
Paragraph (3) of the understandings stipulated in the Protocol of Exchange of Ratifications signed at Washington on the 28th of July, 1937, shall be amended to read as follows:
"That the Commission shall set up an Advisory Committee composed of six persons from each country who shall be representatives of the various branches of the industry including, but not limited to, purse seine, gillnet, troll, sport fishing and processing, which Advisory Committee shall be invited to all non-executive meetings of the Commission and shall be given full opportunity to examine and to be heard on all proposed orders, regulations or recommendations."
ARTICLE VI
1. The Parties shall conduct a coordinated investigation of pink salmon stocks which enter the waters described in Article I of the Convention for the purpose of determining the migratory movements of such stocks. That part of the investigation to be carried out in the waters described in Article I of the Convention shall be carried out by the Commission.
2. Except with regard to that part of the investigation to be carried out by the Commission, the provisions of Article III of the Convention with respect to the sharing of cost shall not apply
seventh year after the entry into force of this Protocol to examine the results of the investigation referred to in this Article and to determine what further arrangements for the conservation of pink salmon stocks of common concern may be desirable.
ARTICLE VII
Nothing in the Convention or this Protocol shall preclude the Commission from recording sucn information on stocks of salmon other than sockeye or pink salmon as it may acquire incidental to its activities with respect to sockeye and pink salmon.
ARTICLE VIII
The present Protocol shall be ratified and the exchange of the instruments of ratification shall take place in Ottawa as soon as possible. It shall come into force-on the day of the exchange of the instruments of ratification.
In witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised by their respective Governments, have signed this Protocol and have affixed thereto their seals.
INTERPRETATIONS
• It is our understanding that nothing in the Convention or this Protocol shall preclude the Commissioners of either Party from being accompanied by technical experts to Commission meetings. We understand, of course, that such technical experts may not attend meetings of the Commission which the Commission decides to hold in camera.
• It is our understanding that nothing in the Convention or this Protocol shall be construed as preventing the two Governments within their respective territories from conducting any scientific investigations with respect to sockeye or pink salmon in the Convention area, provided that such investigations do not preclude the carrying out of the Commission's duties.
• It is our understanding that the words "emergency orders" as used, in Article HI include (but are not limited to) or-ders which are required to be issued pending action on regulations by the Govern-ments under Article III of the Protocol if such action is delayed beyond the commencement of a fishing season.
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