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THE FISHERMAN
Friday, November 8, 194«
United States Fish Pack Drop Due To Several Run Failures
Because of extremely low production in several of the major fisheries, the pack of canned fish in the United States and Alaska during the first nine months of 1946 was eight percent below last year, Milton C. James, Assistant Director of the Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice, announced late last month.
By September 30, the pack of canned fish, except for miscel-
laneous small items not yet tabulated, amounted to 386,580,600 pounds. On the same date last year 421,592,700 pounds had been packed.
The decline has occurred in spite of high production in the fisheries for California tuna and Maine sardines, and is largely due to the failure of the Alaska salmon fishery, the albacore fishery off the coasts of Washington and Oregon, and the Pacific sardine fishery, Mr. James said.
Although some of the deficit might be made up in fisheries that are still operating during the balance of the year, there is little chance that production will equal that of 1945 unless there is an unexpected improvement in fishing for Pacific sardines, which has been notably poor in northern California waters, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Only about half as many sardines have been packed on the West Coast as last year. The pack to the end of September was 760,275 cases, compared with 1,492,441 cases for the same period in 1945. This figure represents production during January. February, August and September the period from March 1 through July being a closed season in this fishery.
The Alaska salmon industry had one of the poorest seasons in its history, the pack falling to the lowest level since 1927. When the season closed in September, the total pack was only 3,879,955 cases. In 1945, also a poor year for this industry, 4,350,471 cases were packed. During the preceding 10-year period, production of Alaska salmon had varied from 5 to 8 million cases.
The salmon pack on the northwestern coast of the United
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States, while only slightly below the 1945 level, continued a downward trend which has. been evident since 1941. The 1946 pack to the end of September was 516,729 cases, compared with approximately 550,000 cases for the equivalent period of 1945.
In contrast to these low yields, the California tuna fishery, third largest on the Pacific coast, seemed likely to enjoy a record-breaking year. The pack for the first nine months of 1946 was 3,596,817 cases—almost as much as was packed during the whole of 1945 —and 35 percent above production for the same period last year. The largest pre-war pack of Cali-ornia tuna was 4,162,336 cases in 1940, and present indications are that the 1946 pack will considerably exceed this figure.
Despite the excellent tuna catches by California boats, the albacore, a white-meated tuna, was mysteriously scarce in the northern waters where it has supported a fishery since 1937. Landings of this tuna at Astoria were the smallest in the history of the fishery; receipts at other ports in Oregon and Washington were correspondingly low. The northern pack of albacore this year, as a result, was little better than 10 percent of the quantity packed from the 1945 catch.
After a discouraging early season pack, the Maine sardine fishery made a sudden spurt in August and September and by the end of the latter month had exceeded last year's production for the first three quarters of the year. The pack as of September 30 was 2,123,222 cases, compared with 1,953,216 cases to September 30, 1945. %
Production of canned sea herring in Maine showed little change compared with last year: 75,240 cases as against 78,500 in 1945. The pack of Atlantic mackerel, on the other hand, was 203,949 cases—about four times
the 1945 production. The canning, of mackerel is concentrated at Gloucester and in several Maine ports.
Since the peak of the Pacific mackerel season comes in the last quarter of the year, it is too early to judge the trend of this fishery. Hbwever, the pack to the end of September was 195,225 cases, an increase of about 55,000 cases over last year.
Although still below the prewar normal, the pack of shrimp on the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts totalled 168,209 cases by September 30, compared with 88,-190 last year. During the war very little shrimp was canned because of the price situation and the difficulty of obtaining canning materials.
I Co-op Bonds I Need Pushing
By R WULFF
The United Fishermen's Cooperative bond drive is coming along none too fast-The sooner we can arrive at the goal of 5150,000, the sooner we will be able to get our Cold Storage building, which is sorely needed to handle the continued increase in volume of fish that is turned into the Coop. The situation is that we have only one sharp freezer. This freezer can only handle about one-third of the volume of production. This means that we have to get freezer space g elsewhere. The Pacific Cold 8 Storage Terminal in New I Westminster is our only out. I This means a lot of truck- g ing, extra work and ex- g pense, which could be elim- j| inated when we have our m own Cold Storage. So get g busy, boys, and dig down so g that we can get it going.
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WALLA WALLA. (CNS).—The effort of a private power group to block Walla Walla Electric Cooperatives, Inc., from building- and operating an electric co-op in Walla Walla county, was defeated in the superior court here on October 10. A ruling by Judge B. B. Harrison was filed on .that date, denying a writ of mandamus sought by the private power interests.
Judge Horrigan, who in an earlier opinion had asserted that cooperatives are highly beneficial to the public, repeated this judgment, and rejected three out of four contentions of the plaintiffs. On the fourth, which alleged bad faith on the part of Charles Baker, president of the cooperative, and argued that the Pacific Power and Light Company could supply the region in question, he said:
"It is obvious to the court that
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The property of consumers cooperatives in Germany and Austria were by a decree of the Nazi Government on February 18 of 1941, transferred to the German Labor Front. Provision was made for the conversion of cooperative stores into ordinary retail stores to be given over to private owners at the end of the war. This measure, reports "Cooperative Information" (ILO), was the cut
How Income Tax Amendment Affects Newly Formed Co-ops
The entire income for the first three taxation years of a cooperative organized after January 1, 1947, is exempt from income tax provided it is:
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3. The prospect of a patronage dividend must be held forth by
(a) the act of incorporation or statute under which the company is incorporated;
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4. Every member is limited to one vote.
5. All members must be individuals (corporations cannot be members.
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9. In the minister's opinion, it is not a continuation of a previous business in which a substantial number of members had a substantial interest.
To qualify for the exemption all of the foregoing must be strictly complied with.
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it is economically unsound and costly to the public to have duplicate systems serving the public in the same locality." He agreed that Pacific Power and Light could provide the necessary service but he disposed of the charge of bad faith in these words:
"I do not think the evidence establishes that it was the primary purpose (of the cooperative) to injure and destroy the Pacific Power and Light Company except insofar as it may be incidental to the general purpose of bringing about the acquisition of the concern by the various organizations interested in acquiring a part of the system (a reference to the bid by the co-ops for a Pacific Power and Light subsidiary). If Mr. Baker was doing what he was doing simply to injure the Pacific Power and Light Company, clearly he would not be in good faith, but if he did that which he had a right to do, believing it was accomplishing a general public good, even though he may be mistaken in his belief, he could not be charged with bad faith."
Arrangements for construction of the co-op system and purchase of power from Bonneville substation have been completed, buf it is probable that some delay may occur pending review in the state supreme court.
mination of a series of attacks on the Consumers Cooperative Movement by the National Socialist Party. The Agricultural Cooperative Movement, on the other hand, was left economically intact, but underwent a certain "rationalization," and was closely integrated with the national war economy.
Since the Allied occupation of Germany various measures have been taken in the British, United States and Russian zones leading towards the restoration of a free Cooperative Movement. In the British one the legal basis for the formation of new cooperative societies was laid down on March S this year, by the issue of a Notice regarding the formation of consumers or producers cooperative societies. The conditions for their establishment were set out, and their functions and scone were defined. A proposed society has to have the approval of the Military Government, and if it is given it may be appointed custodian and manager of such properties of the former German Labor Front (originally cooperative property) as the Military Government may determine. In Hamburg stens have been taken to reform the Cooperative Wholesale Society (G.E.G.), and H. A T. Everling has been appointed manager. Late in April, 1946, a Zonal Conference of German co-operators was convened at Dus-seldorf by the Military Government, and which was attended by more than fifty eooperators from all parts of the Zone.
In the American Zone the restoration o f consumers coopera-
tives has been approved by the Economic Department of the Military Government for Bavaria. On March 4, 1946, the Department State Commissioner was appointed trustee for all property formerly belonging to the holding company of the German Labor Front The Military Government has approved the formation of Cooperative Unions in the Wurtemberg-Baden and Grosse Hessen administrative regions.
A report issued early this year by the Office of Military Government in the American Zone shows there were then 11,688 agricultural cooperatives with a total membership of 1,200,000 persons, mostly farmers. Their activities ranged from the granting of credit to the processing and marketing of produce. Cooperative credit societies provide about 85 percent of all the rural operating credit. Cooperative marketing societies are estimated to market 30 to 40 percent of the grain, 50 percent of the potatoes, 75 percent of the milk, 60 percent of the eggs, 25 percent of the livestock, and 20 pescent of the wine produced in the United States Zone.
In the Russian Zone cooperatives will have returned to them all assets taken over by the German Labor Front. Provision is made for the formation of individual cooperative undertakings as well as on a territorial basis. In the large cities and provinces consumers cooperatives may form cooperative unions.
In the French Zone steps are being taken to reconvert into genuine cooperative societies the retail establishments organized by the former German Labor Front.
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Salmon Swells Seattle Landings For Past Week
Receipts of fresh fish at Seattle durinsr the week endinc Saturday, November 2, totalled 1.587.911 pounds, an increase of 8 percent over last week and 82 percent over the 1945 comparable week's figure of 871,760 pounds. Deliveries of fresh salmon
amounting to almost 1,411,000 pounds represented almost nine-tenths of the total receipts. The catches of king and silver salmon tended to decline during the week while those for chum salmon, largely produced by Puget Sound purse seine and gill net operations, rose to almost 1 1-3 million pounds.
Considerable quantities of these chum salmon were caught in Seattle's front yard, that is, along the East shore of Bainbridge Island and northward, all within 1% hours run to the local docks.
Deliveries by the long line fleet
also tapered off with five vessels-landing 77,000 pounds of sable-fish, 5,800 pounds of rockcod and 9,900 pounds of incidentally caught halibut. Prices for ex-vessel sable-fish ranged from 14,% to 16 cents a pound, while halibut remained firm at 35 cents.
Other fleet landings were also light with 11 otter trawl vessels landing 19,128 pounds and two craft of the shark and gill net fleet landing 1,435 pounds of bot-tomflsh, mostly soles, true cod and lingcod. Aditional truck deliveries totalled about 64,000 ■ pounds, mostly soles, sablefish and smelt
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