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THE FISHERMAN
Friday, October 10, M47
Salmon Pack To October 4
SOCKEYE
October 4, 1947
October 5, 1946
October 6, 1945
Sept'ber 30, 1944 SPRINGS
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Sept'ber 30, 1944 COHO
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PINKS
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Sept'ber 30, 1944 CHUMS
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TOTALS
October 4, 1947
October 5, 1946
October 6, 1945
Sept'ber 30, 1944
. 285,456
. 541,570 V&
. 328,882
. 246,013 hi
9,549 7,986 11,261 Vi 14,296
.  131,366%
89,916 . 196,140 .  149,213 tt
. 598,744
. 116,114
. 814,713
. 388,147
. 394,330
. 393,126
. 271,959%
. 198,033%
.1,427,198% .1,155,540 .1,632,300% .1,011,101%
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ALASKA PINK SALMON HEARINGS
gram which has been carried on in Alaska.
The fish "go nuts" when tagged, like a dog with a can on its tail, he asserted, and it is impossible to tell where they will go. Allain also believes that many fish will bo killed in the streams by persons hunting the tags for the reward.
Discrimination vs. Seiners
Several speakers felt that there had been discrimination against the seiners in the way the seasons were opened and closed this year. They objected particularly to the closing at 6 a.m. and opening at 6 p.m. This, they felt, allowed the traps two nights to fish when the seiners could not operate and gave the traps an advantage.
Seton Thompson said that the discrimination, if any, had been unintentional and explained that the closed periods had been geared to the 36-hour weekly closure provided by law, with an attempt to equalize the periods throughout the week.
Woodrow Morrison felt that there should be a definite closing date for the season. Thousands of dollars worth of damage, as a result of quantities of jellyfish, was done to seines on the west
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Natural Enemies
Destruction of salmon eggs, salmon ready to spawn and the young fry by their natural enemies, including sawbills or merganser ducks, herring gulls and "pigeon gulls," black bears and Dolly Vasden trout, were described by several speakers.
Prince of Wales Island is overrun with black bears, Julius Frank told the group, and when fish are plentiful they eat only the heads, leaving the rest of the fish to rot.
Outside Fishing
Opening of the season early enough so that the big run of fish offshore, from Cape Adding-ton to Cape Muzon, can be caught by the seiners, was also asked by George Williams and Joe Williams. This fish, they believe, goes on to Canadian waters, and is lost to American fishermen unless they can fish offshore early in the summer.
Joe Williams said that the catches offshore include many large steelheads "up to four feet long," and that these are not found in Alaska streams. He suggested that tht> seine lead be abolished, and said that he seldom uses the 75-fathom lead for his own seine but that some of the boats misuse  this lead.
Williams said that he knows of some traps that should be abolished or moved because they
picture and all.
In. regard to the picture, I might mention that it is not my graduation picture (public school) but was taken during the 1946 convention. It is a very good picture but you would never recognize me by it because the photographer took all the wrinkles out of my forehead., gave me a very nice hair cut and shave, got rid of a few grey hairs and made me look like a school boy.
As for the column itself, I tried to report the news as it was and if I gave more prominence to the large landings than the poor landings, it was due to the fact that I took the information as it came to me. Usually when a small trip is landed, a man has to be there at the time it's landed or he doesn't hear about it, but on the other hand when a large trip comes into a camp you usually hear about it before it reaches the scales.
Then of course there is another angle. A person has to be care-tui about the manner in which a small trip is reported for the reason that the person who lands it is liable to take it as a slight on his ability to see in print that he landed such a small trip.
in regard to errors mat actually appeared in the column, I might say this, that when you take it into consideration that I never did learn that "muscular action" my teachei-3 were all telling me about during writing lessons, and I still write by moving my fingers as little as ppsisble as quickly as pos-are too close to spawning streams siWe    It.s a wonaer the editor got
By ELGIN   «COTTY" NEISH
VICTORIA, Oct. 9—Trolling on the West Coast is coming to a close, and due to the fact the "Valjim" made her last trip of the '47 season when we returned from the Cape Arago area and I am therefore out of touch with what goes on in the fleet, this item will be my last for the season and will take the form of a summing up.
When I started sending in the news from the grounds I never expected that I was to be given a "by-line" in "The Fisherman with
and too close together.
anything out of my letters.
Some of the boats names and their owners' names were misspelt due partly to the fact, I myself did not know how to spell them and partly due to a: mistake in the decoding of the letter when it reached the editor's desk. The only
mistake of any importance was in he was doing good bad or mail a report I sent in   from Namu, where it appeared in the column that I had been talking to Lome Hume, the personnel manager at
Sam Hollander TLC Delegate
Shoreworker UFAWU members meeting in the Fishermen's hall in September, elected Sam Hollander delegate to the Trades and Labor Council to represent the Shore local, replacing Marion Parkin, who has left the industry.
The same meeting elected a social committee as follows: Fred Branter, Millie Leyshon, Billy Donaldson, Alice Parkington, Jessie Kristensen, Betty Edwards, Bella Henderson, Elsie Pearce, Marge Neilsen, Lou Nelson, Dorothy Dawson, and Gertrude May-berry.
BONES BAY
Delegates elected to attend the general meeting in Vancouver from Bones Bay are: Ray Burton, Sam  Weston,  H.  G.   Sivor, Cleo
Horsfall, L. A. Palmer. , beefs tQ ^ miQn co?vention in
L. A. Palmer has been appointed the form of resolutions, secretary-treasurer of the branch.     But I hope all those who read Dave Wood was given a vote of that misprint read this and get it thanks for his work as chief shop straight  that there was  a para-steward at Bones Bay. ' graph  missing from  that report
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and the person referred to was Sam Smitiguard. I agree with the logic of his argument that the deep gillnets should be allowed to operate in the deep water adjacent to Fitzhugh Sound.
The past season was one of the best seasons on record for the ice packing section of the trolling flee{ in that this year the average gross landings were higher than ever before. In other years, a few of the ice packers did really well and the rest of the fleet's earnings were away down. This situation is brought about by the advent or wide use of radio telephones in the trolling fleet. In bygone years a troller (this holds good for other types of gear) haa to rely entirely on his own judgment to put himself on the fish and if he made a wrong decision that day, trip or season, was a dead loss because he had no way of knowing whether
ferent in comparison with boats on   different  parts  of the coast.
But now the men who in bygone years had never caught enough the B.C. Packers' Namu plant and \ fish to eat (or had never fished discussed the question of fishing in his life) can stay on the fish deep gillnets in the Fitzhugh Sound throughout the season and the area, with him, and which he asks gravest decision he has to make me to correct.   This was definitely js "whether to go where so and
not the case as the person I was discussing this subject with was Sam Smitiguard, whom I met in Namu.
I never bothered to correct this misstatement at the time, due to the lack of time on my part and due to the way in which it appeared in print. It was fairly obvious, to my own way of thinking, that it was a misprint and that there had been a paragraph left out, because you don't try to sell a personnel manager of a plant union plates or tell him to send his
so is catching fish or go to where
somebody else is catching fish."
Prior to the radio telephone you had to put yourself on the fish and there is considerable difference. (This especially holds good when the individual concerned does not even know where the banks are let alone which bank to go to).
This, to my way of thinking, has a direct bearing on the increase in the landings • of the ice packing troller because the poorest troller equipped with a receiving set gains the benefit of the knowledge of the best fisherman who has a radio telephone.
The twenty-five cents a pound price for troll-caught cohoe delivered to Vancouver is having the effect of keeping a considerable number of trollers on the banks.
Harry Fanthorpe of the "Mile 83" and Reg Paine of the "Vega I" are changing from trolling to long lining. Both these men in company with Gus Norman of the "Nordic" fish out of Victoria with long-line for dogfish during winter.
Gus Norman was bucking considerable hard luck this year when he lost a lot of time with engine trouble. Gus is one of the few men I know of who fishes a small boat throughout the entire year and stays with long-line gear.
Buster Keale of the "Iswin Kiwis" is working his own boat otter trawling again after a spell ashore. Buster is waiting for his thumb to heal before going up the West Coast to drag up a trip. Buster got his thumb badly smashed on board his boat while hauling the gear recently.
John Daly of the "Kelp" was in Victoria with the "Kelp." The trip was one of business but he had it in the back of his mind to make a trip to the big bank if the reports were good. John stuck pretty close to the Bull Harbour area all season and" reports he had a pretty good year.
Rupert Prince is with his father Adolph Prince on the "Venetta Prince" packing herring for the B.C. Packers.
Angus McKay of the "Storm 2" is planning at least one more trip to the big bank.
Rod Steele of the "L.S." also is making one more trip.
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