May 20, 1952
THE FISHERMAN
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Lofoten Cod Yield Drops
Notwithstanding record high participation and modern gear, the annual cod fisheries in the Lofoten waters of North Norway yielded below the average results, according to the Norwegian Information Service in an April 24, 1952 news item.
By the time the season closed, just before Easter, fishermen had landed a total of 78,589 metric tons of cod, as against 108,000 tons last year.
Main reasons for the disappointing catch were rougli weather and the fact that the cod this year stayed deeper in the water than usual.
Purse seiners accounted for 37,-800 tons, or nearly half of the total catch, though they were on the fishing grounds only about a month.
The Jiggers had a very good season, but long-liners did poorly.
Many of the fishing boats are now heading for Finnmark province, where the fisheries have just about started.
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New power and speed recently^ went into the seiner M.V. "Manhattan 2", with the installation of a new Vivian National diesel. This model is a 7 cylinder, 6" bore, 8%" stroke engine, developing 210 BHP continuous at 1200 RPM.
Reporting on the sea trials, owner Randoph Thompson, of Gabriola Island; said the new engine increased the speed of the "Manhattan 2" a good three knots. Clocked at 10.15 knots on her first trial, subsequent runs indicated she is capable of close to IOV2 knots.
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Better Not Fish At All Than At Last Year's Prices
May 10, 1952 *-■-
Editor, The Fisherman: I around this northern country to
I notice by the Vancouver papers see how this mark-up on goods is
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dividual fuel pumps for each cylinder; 32 volt electric starting, and a F.i k.w. generator.
The owner of the "Manhattan 2" is engaged in the operation of a herring bait pond, supplying bait to the halibut boats. Each year when this operation is completed, he goes on salmon seining and fin-
ally rounds out the year on herring.
The LONG and
the SHORT of it is . . . The HUB has sold Union-Made Men's Wear and extended friendly service for over 50 years.
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there is a big cry from the can neries that they can't sell their last year's fish.
What seems so strange about this "Can not sell the fish?" The canneries have been very good at this same line every year.
Would there be any reason for this cry outside of their agreement to try and get the fishermen to take a cut on their fish prices. The same old story "We can not pay any more". "We are down to bed rock," etc., has been going on for over 40 years that I know of. Funny what became of all the fish.
I notice that sockeye is quoted at tails 89 cents or half size 47 cents., humps or pinks, half size 24 cens large size 48 cents; cohoes half size 37 cents large size 73 cents.
It appears the canning companies are doing alright. They are getting ready, for another big pack. Another article by the local Vancouver papers points that three million dollars is going into boats to fish the coming season. More gear is going into an already over crowded industry. Still they maintain "We can not sell our fish." I wonder what they are going to .do with the fish if there is no market as the canneries claim. Why do they operate? Is it a charitable proposition "Operate to help out the poor fishermen."
It appears to me that a lot of the fishermen would be better off if the canneries did not operate if prices still keep climbing. If a person is going to cat, he sure will have to have more income for his labor.
I notice that Agriculture Minister Gardiner is to put a floor price 011 beef.
Where are the fellows who said ijjey would take off the ceiling prices and as soon as there is a quantity produced, things will find t$eir level. Now things started to skid a little—so little you would need a microscope to see it. The government steps in with our tax money and puts a floor ceiling on things. This is robbing Pete to pay Paul, as the old saying goes. At the rate this is going, there will never be any leveling-off; time to put the ceiling on the top instead of the bottom.
I might add here that it is time the government sent someone
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run. You can get a pair of pliers in Vancouver for $1.85 and here $4.60. Here it seems this mark-up applies to every can in a case instead of on the dollar. A piece of meat if it comes off next to the horns or a T-bone steak, it's all the same price. Living up this way is 50 percent higher than in Vancouver.
The demands the Union put through for fish are very little. It would not even begin to keep up with the cost of living. Paint is $10 a gallon up from $5; nets too; I bought a sprocket wheel four inches in diameter for $10 and a rudder stock for $36. That last item is up sky-high. A few years ago, you could get rudder and stock shoe for boat and steam iron for $20. I just bought a half inch sink tap for $22, same tap was $5, three years ago. You could fill a book on these items—$12 for nylon leader line and so on.
I think we are entitled to a small raise on the fish or we don't fish is my way of thinking.
If we take this "We can't sell our fish" as an excuse, that story is over d«ne. It has been quoted every year for years. You will see when the price of logs and fish are settled how soon the market will brighten up. If it doesn't brighten up and we accept last year's prices, we are sunk anyway.
Judging by our Vancouver papers, British Columbia is prospering. That must apply to someone else, not the little follow—he has his nose more to the grindstone than ever.
Remember, there is an election coming up in June. See if we cannot get some MP elected who will try and give an even break for the little fellows.
Namu, B.C. UNION MEMBER.
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Are We Living In 'Jackass' Age?
Editor, The Fisherman:
Our good old jackass system! We hear they have turned under crops, killed animals, burned fruit with gas (to keep up prices) and now they are dumping English cars in English Bay. There they will bring plenty of damage to our B.C. shrimp fishermen and others. Their nets will catch and tear losing time, money and fish.
Why didn't they sell these damaged cars for scrap iron? Every time we fishermen ask for buoys for the coast, we are told there is a shortage of steel. These cars would have made at least one buoy for Tasu Inlet but instead they are thrown in the water to endanger our fishermen.
Could it be that they couldn't be sold as scrap iron to Japan for a quick profit? What downright stupidity and promptness in wastage. Before the war they sent scrap iron to Japan to come back on us in destructive form and now they are still sending scrap iron, Jn this case to the ocean bottom, which will also cause destruction.
In wartime, they put empty boxes in the logging camps and mills and mines to collect old woollen socks and bits of metal for the war effort. They even made us bring back empty toothpaste tubes before we could buy new ones.
Now, after the war in 1952 with more than a dozen scrap iron companies buying scrap iron, and more than a hundred junk dealers trying to make a living, they dump 22 English cars of good steel slightly damaged by fire into the waters of English Bay. Maybe the cars aren't good enough for scrap iron, only good enough to do damage to B.C. fishermen.
We are living but we forget the past.
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