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February 14, 1939
THE FISHERMAN
Page Three
The Champion Fish Killers
How Traps in Wash. Slaughter Salmon
At our regular monthly meeting of the Grays Harbor Local of the PCFU we, as usual, went into lengthy discussions about Fish Traps and received some very pertinent information from Brothers who have had experience in trap operation.
A Brother who had obtained such experience in the past gives the information requested and states that a trap will catch as many fish in one lift as a ^ gillnetter will get in a season, and more. This Brother said two traps near the Humptulips River, Grays Harbour, caught 47,000 fish (salmon of different species) in 1932, and that the traps had the river blocked so it was practically impossible for the salmon to ascend it to spawn. In 1929 one trap took 246 Silver (Cohoe), 60 Chinooks (King or Tyhee), and 600 Chum salmon in one
* lift, this trap being in Willapa Harbour, and in Grays Harbour to his certain knowledge a trap took 9 ton of Cohoe salmon, and 2% ton of King Salmon, this being one day's take.
Another Brother stated that in 1918 one trap took 1600 Cohoe and 100 Chum
4 salmon on Grays Harbour, this being one day's catch. The traps mentioned were typical piling traps such as are common to this area. There are no huge floating traps like those used in the Territory of Alaska in operation here; they are the champion fish killers and that is the truth. Nevertheless these mentioned get the salmon right in the vicinity of-their spawning grounds and in bygone years they even had them there.
Huge Herring Catch Made
Impossible To Use Full Length Seines
VANCOUVER, Feb. 8.—Reports from the herring fleet tell of locating huge shoals of herring a couple of weeks ago in Kwakshua Bay and Safety Cove, long and narrow arms across from Edenbrook light, and just north of Rivers Inlet.
In these waters the seiners of the B.C. Packers, Nootka Packers and Nelson Brothers have found the schools so heavy that it was impossible to use full lengths of seines. If they ran their seines out they would be unable to hold or handle the catches. As a result they are fishing with only portions of the nets, and are making catches of between 300 and 400 tons.
To date a total of 20,000 tons has been caught.
Credit Unions To Open Soon
Ten Persons Can Form Union
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VICTORIA, Feb. 8.—Regulations governing the organization of B.C. credit unions will be completed by the end of this week, it was announced here today. Until then no unions can be formed.
When the" machinery is ready to move, however, it will require only the application of ten persons, who must sign a constitution, to obtain a certificate of incorporation.
The unions will raise money by subscription. Although by law the unions will be permitted to lend at 12 per cent, per year, they hope to be able to lend at 3 and 4 percent.
FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
But Father, dear Father, when a Union goes on a strike and someone who doesn't believe in union principles takes their jobs, they are called "scabs," ain't they? Yes, my son, that is what they are called by Union men. Real polite people say they are "unfair," but a hungry man sometimes forgets to be polite.
Do people call Fishermen who are unfair to organized Labor Scabs, Papa? Well, Son, it's all according to the view point and what side of the fence you happen to be standing cn; you should always be polite, my boy, and never forget your manners.
Even if Poppa has been on the Beach for many months and Momma has no flour to bake bread with, you see, Son, your Daddy is a fellow who is kind of set in his ways and doesn't have any too much book larnin', but once, while serving his betters he made a trip to the Canibal Islands; sailed there in a great big ship and had quite a time enjoying himself there. That was a long time before he had ever seen Mamma and in those days your Daddy was always ready to put in a word for what he considered proper and right. Now, he just thinks about it, you see. But Dad, you haven't answered my question ! That's all right, Son, you just run out and play. Daddy will just sit here and think about it some more. It's a verrrrrrry deep subject. W. W.
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Two Fishermen Thought Lost
Fear Boat Swamped In Heavy Seas
VANCOUVER, Feb. 10—No news is yet to hand regarding the fate of Hans and Lars Frederiksen who have been missing over a week off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.
Hans and Lars left Cape Scott six days ago for Scott Island, five miles away, and have not been heard from since. Hans is 29 and a rancher. Lars is 27 and a fisherman.
They put out in a 24-foot gasboat, the Black Barnacle, for a short fishing trip to Scott Islands.
A storm blew up after they left and a search vessel was unable to negotiate the treacherous rip tides between Cape Scott and the Scott Islands until Monday, when Capt. James Henderson took out the seine boat Shizuka.
Accompanied by Adrien Davis of Shu-shartie, Capt, Henderson landed at one of the islands, but found no trace of the missing brothers.
Some fears were held the Black Barnacle might have been swanmped in heavy seas.
Constable E. W. Lockwood left Port Alice, fifty miles south of Cape Scott, on Neroutsos Inlet, for Shusharti to organize a thorough search of Scott Islands. Shushartie is twenty-three miles from Cape Scott and is used by coastal vessels serving this district.
Wash. Fishermen Reject Charter
Trap Tendermen Defeat Disrupters
SEATTLE, Feb. 5—Peter Gill, business agent for the Sailors Union of the Pacific here, waved a brand-new charter enticingly before trap tendermen in the Alaska Fishermen's Union.
But for the second time within a week, the SUP campaign of disruption on the waterfront met defeat when the charter was rejected by a vote of 40 to 18.
Charles Hughes, organizer of the AFL, stormed out of the meeting when Gill's charter was given the glacial reception.
Gill returned his charter to his pocket and retired to a waterfront saloon to consider subsequent strategy in his campaign to precipitate a jurisdictional dispute on the Seattle waterfront.
Sunbury Women Hit The High Spots
Sunbury Women's Auxiliary of thePC FU are really going to town with their organizational campaign to bring fishermen's wives of the Fraser River towns into the auxiliary. They have just sent a request to the executive committee at headquarters for another 25 membership cards.
Salmon Exports From B.C. Increase
Details of principal commodities exported from Vancouver, B.C., show a gain in grain, metal, salmon, with decreases in lumber and flour, the figures for 1938 being grain, 23,327,966 bushels; flour, 331,615 barrels; bar metal, 33,406 tons; canned salmon, cases. 1,288,379; lumber, 408,642,818 feet; while for 1937 it was 18,864,757 bushels grain, 463,336 barrels flour, 33,140 tons metal, 1,238,878 cases salmon, 508,640,333 feet lumber.
"The Kangaroo will soon replace the blackeagle on the German insignia— because the kangaroo is the only animal able to go far on an empty pocket."
NEW FISH PACKERS.
Of vessels built and registered at Vancouver during 1938 there were forty-nine, of which the big fish packers Western Ranger and Bligh Island, each seventy feet long, were the largest.
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