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THE FISHERMAN
July 12, 1955
BCE Overcrowding Hit By City Shoreworkers
Vancouver shoreworkers have protested to B.C. Electric president Dal Grauer about overcrowding on city trolley coaches during the' hours that working people are going to and from their jobs.
A letter over the signature of
Reuben Deport Order Quashed
Deportation order for William Ueuben, U.S. author of The Atom Spy Hoax, and lecturer, has ,been quashed by t'he B.C. Supreme Court. Reuben was turned 'back at the Vancouver airport by Canadian Immigration authorities on April 10 when he arrived to address a public meeting.
In setting aside the order, Mr. Jus Lice Wilson agreed that Reuben had not been given a proper hearing. The so-called hearing lasted about three minutes and Reuben was not able to have a lawyer and to call witness as he was entitled to.
Protests against the arbitrary procedure used were sent to the Hon. J. W. Pickersgill, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and BC. members of Parliament by the general executive board of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union and by the Vancouver Shoreworkers' Local.
Replies to the Shoreworkers' letter were received from local MP's Haroid Winch <COF, Vancouver East), Angus Maclnnis (CCF, Vancouver-Kingsway) and Howard Green (PC, Vancouver-Quadra).
Winch reported that he had already raised the matter with the Minister and had not yet received a reply. Green's letter was merely an acknowledgement.
Maclnnis declined'to act on the Shoreworkers' protest because, he said, they had not protested some 20 years ago when he was refused ad mission Jo the Soviet Union (the Local was not in existence at that time).
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■business agent Alex Gordon was sent to Grauer as a result' of a unanimous motion at the last monthly meeting of the Vancouver Shoreworkers local.
The question was raised by a member and a spirited discussion followed, with not one voice being heard in defence of BCER service.
Union members want to know, according to t'he letter, "Why is it, during the hours working people must use street transportation to go to and from work, that every bus is crowded to the doors with all riders travelling with maximum discomfort?"
Commenting on further reductions in service in the city's East End, announced by the BCER since the local took action, business agent Alex Gordon said, ''This is further evidence that the B.C. Elect'ric intends, t'o curtail services without regard to riding comfort.
"It is to be hoped that the trade union movement as a whole will take up this matter and have it corrected," he said.
Sobell Transfer Asked by Union
Transfer of Morton Sobell, convicted at the same time as Julius arid Ei'hel Rosenberg and sentenced to 30 years, from bleak, windswept Alcatraz to a regular U.S. prison has been demanded by the general executive board of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union.
Confinement of Sobell at Alcatraz is "an unusual and unprecedented punishment," wrote Union secretary Homer Stevens in a letter to James V. Bennett, U.S. bureau of prisons director.
Stevens pointed out that Alcatraz, the top-security institution, is usually reserved .for the toughest criminals who must be kept in extreme isolation.
William Austin, Vancouver Sobell committee head, has charged that U-S. Attorney-General Herb Brownell is holding Sobell in Alcatraz to get a "confession" from him to start a new round of "espionage" and "treason" trials.
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B.C. SALMON PACK BULLETIN
Current Season July 2 1955 Comparison with packs of previous years as at dates indicated July 3 July 4 July 5 June 30 July 1 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950
SOCKEYE Total to date Increase over previous week 14,689 12,683 48,559 42,164 57,338 38,119 35,355 28,268
SPRINGS Total to date Increase over previous week 987 560 1,526 1,271 1,520 871 1,117 1,126
STEELHEADS Total to date Increase over previous week 44 103 202 200 364 294 238 270
BLUEBACKS Total to date Increase over previous week 2,650 1,542 1,115 429 2,658 1,515 278 2,597
COHO Total to date Increase over previous week 2,324 1,649 8,793 5,453 7,411 4,766 3,059 3,681
PINKS Total to date Increase over previous week 49 54 271 248 213 207 47 336
CHUMS Total to date Increase over previous week 593 1,007; 2,735 2,446 648 388 1,282 236
TOTALS ALL Totals to date Increase over previous week SPECIES 21,696 17,598 63,201 52,211 70,152 46,160 41,376 36,514
Figures represent 48 lb. cases or equivalent
Fall Completion Date For Skutz Fishway
Hon. James Sinclair, minister of fisheries, last week announced award of a contract to Cowichan Housing Company of Duncan for construction of fishways at Skutz Falls, Vancouver Island,
Gains in important runs of coho and spring salmon and steelhead trout' are expected to result from the installation in a river system which attracts yearly increasing numbers of local anglers and fishing-minded tourists.
Maritime Strike Gets Union Aid
Financial support has been voted to a small group of striking maritime woodworkers by headquarters of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and at least two of its Locals.
The Union is the CCL National Union of Woodworkers and to If the UFAWU has sent $15 while the Vancouver and Steveston Shoreworker Locals have contributed $10 each with other locals helping out.
The organisation involved represents 75 employees in two woodworking plants in the St. John, New Brunswick and according to a letter "is faced with a hard long-drawn out strike situation."
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Work will begin immediately and completion is scheduled for next fall. Total cost will approximate $40,000.
Fishery officers estimate the present, populations originating in Cowichan River as: 30,000 to 60,000 coho, 5,000 to 10,000 spring and 6,000 to 7,000 steelhead trout. Runs of chum salmon varying from 30,-000 to 200,000 enter the Cowichan River but spawn mainly below the falls .and will not affected to any extent by the fishway.
Located 18 miles from Cowichan Bay, Skutz Falls have been a formidable barrier to spawning bound salmon since fishery observers first surveyed t'he river. As early as 1921 some improvements were made and in 1931 a standard pool and weir type fishway was built by the department.' of fisheries. This has since operated successfully at certain water levels, but losses of salmon still occur during periods of unfavorable water conditions.
The installation projected this summer was designed by fisheries department engineers t'o handle runs of salmon and trout at all stages of water. Two fishways will be built; one for low level operation and one for high water.
In the lower fishway 16 baffles will break the force ojf water and provide resting pools for spawning migrants at low si'ages of water. In the upper fishway eight similar baffles will take care of salmon passing the obstruction at extreme high water conditions.
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Canada Participates In Oceanography Study
Three thousand men in 30 ships from three countries will scour the Pacific Ocean north of Latitude 20 this summer in Project NORPAC, the largest oceanographic survey ever undertaken. Canada, United States and Japan will collaborate in a joint effort to make a detailed study of the temperature, alinity, food content and the cur-'
rents affecting these waters with a view of discovering regions in which fish are likely to occur.
Dr. John P. Tully, head of the Pacific Oceanographic Group at Departure Bay, in charge of Canada's part in the survey, states that this will be the first time the waters of the North Pacific will have been subjected to a large-scale scientific evaluation.
"We are seeking fish on high seas not yet exploited," he explained.
The three countries are signatories to the International North Pacific Fisheries Convention which established a Commission to promote and coordinate studies necessary to discover how to secure the maximum sustained productivity of the North Pacific fisheries of joint interest to the three countries.
The Royal Canadian Navy will provide one ship, and the Pacific Oceanographic Group will provide the scientific personnel under the leadership of A. J. Dodimead. Five vessels will be put into the survey by United States and Japan will send out a fleet of from 15 to 25 ships.
The current system in the North Pacific is similar to that in the Atlantic. The Japanese, Kuroshio, current flows northward along the coast of Japan and meets a cold, Oyashi, current which flows south past Kamchatka peninsula. These combine and turn eastwards, move across the Pacific Ocean as the 'West Wind Drift' south of the Aleutian Islands. As this current approaches the Canadian coast, part Airns northward to circle around! the Gulf of Alaska, where it is known as the 'Alaska Gyral' while the remainder turns south
along the United States coast where it is known as the California current.
Canada's weather ship on Station 'Papa' at 50 degrees north and 145 degrees west is at. the point' of divergence. Canada's offshore waters lie in the region of this greatest divergence. The Canadian part in the giant survey will emibrace waters from longitude 180 to the Canadian coast which are all moving towards the Canadian coast.
United States ships and scientists will be working in the Gulf of Alaska to the north and in mid-ocean and along coastal waters to the south of the Canadian area. Japanese will cover the waters on the western side of the Pacific.
It' is anticipated that this large fleet of ships will he at sea through the month of August and several months will be required to process data which will be obtained. The three groups will exchange data so that all countries will have a complete picture of the northern Pacific fishery potential.
Canada's one ship is expected to log approximately 8,000 miles of steaming in an area in which both tuna and salmon are known to occur. American vessels will be operating in areas where tuna are more common.
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