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Price boom poses problems
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kets. Others disagree, saying even netmarks can send a sock-eye to the canning line.
There is no argument, however, that a much higher share of net fish landings are top quality.
Sockeye landings this year to July 30 totalled 1733 tonnes and produced a canned pack of 78,000 cases. Last year, sockeye landings hit only 588 tonnes by July 30, but the pack was 87,000 cases.
B.C.'s major canners are worried about canned markets. "The amount getting to the can is minimal," said Canfisco president Doug Souter Aug. 15. "It's very hard to protect that market.
"We've always tried to maintain a balance in markets and various options for buyers, because you know what happens with one buyer — you get tremendous fluctuations and someone gets control."
He predicted an increased role for pink salmon, still priced at the negotiated minimum of 35 cents, as sockeye becomes a luxury product.
Souter said there had been no evidence of activity by American buyers, who could be a factor next year if the GATT ruling on exports is not overcome.
Barry McMillan, president of J.S. McMillan, identifies failures of Alaska salmon runs and the
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low pre-season inventories of most products for the price increases. "Add a touch of Japanese excitement and you can really whip things up."
But these prices will cause resistance at the consumer level, McMillan warned, threatening traditional markets for sockeye in the can.
Pat Todd, of B.C. Packers sales division, agrees. BCP has posted prices of $170 a case for a half-pound cans, up $135 from last year. "I can tell you honestly at $170 we will not break even," he said. "We've been paying $3.90 a pound for three or four weeks now."
Processors insist they have always paid for better quality-and will do so even after this boom slackens.
"We all benefit from quality," says McMillan. "Overall it keeps moving up and the consumer has a right to demand better quality."
The B.C. industry has a particularly strong quality reputation, he added. "Between the quality of our fish handling and the handling in the plants we have a reputation for integrity that is second to none."
McMillan attributes much of the recent improvement to changes made after the botulism scare in 1981.
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From there, it will go to various ministers and the federal cabinet, which is expected to offer full support for a Canadian position.
The UFAWU asserts that the GATT ruling was wrong. We believe the entire issue is one of fishing, of fish conservation, management and regulatory authority.
In our submission, the U.S. complaint was never a trade issue, but the U.S. has skillfully exploited GATT to achieve a continental approach to salmon and herring management and exploitation.
The U.S. action seriously undermines the principles of the United Nations Law of the Sea and the position Canada has taken with respect to ownership of anadromous species.
It makes a mockery of the North Pacific Fisheries Treaty and its all-important abstention principle, under which Japan abstains from fishing full-utilized stocks such as salmon in the eastern Pacific.
Will the Canadian taxpayer continue to pour money into salmon enhancement and provide the funds needed to bring the Fraser River to its rich potential if conservation and management are made impossible and benefits accrue in good part to other nations?
Canada needs to develop a regulatory regime designed solely for the purposes of conservation and management which is consistent with international trade rules and principles — a tall order indeed.
2 • THE FISHERMAN / AUGUST 19,1988