NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
All members are invited to attend the
41st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
OF
GULF and FRASER FISHERMAN'S CREDIT UNION
to be held
Friday, April 2,1982
at the
SHERATON-VILLA INN
4330 Domminion Street, Burnaby, B.C.
commencing at
8:00 p.m.
(Registration will begin at 7:00 p.m.)
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maps divide the coast into 446 sub-areas — dubbed "Shinners Cubes" by union fishermen — and were used in a limited form during the roe herring fishery.
The new areas correspond roughly to the old Areas 21, 23, and 24, but extend right out to the 200-mile limit.
In its March 18 telegram, the union demanded the department immediately re-open the closed areas as well as implement legal trip limits.
The closures were "an unacceptable and discriminatory method of dealing with a few greedy, unsociable individuals."
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George Hewison told LeBlanc "we feel you and the department of fisheries could as easily have rushed through an order-in-council limiting quotas rather than total area closures." The result, he said, would be that "law-abiding fishermen" could harvest available stocks.
As a minimum, union fishermen said, an opening beyond the 100-fathom edge could allow a safe fishery.
"The department is wrong to punish all fishermen for the sins of a few," Hewison told Wilson, "and it should be opening areas on the basis of stock strength and regulate and punish those who break the law on allowable quotas."
Hewison charged that the new system of sub-areas was designed to facilitate implementation of an area licensing program.
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tains a highly sophisticated system of surveillance on its transportation systems which precludes the possibility of negligence as a result of the accident.
CNR officials have attributed the accident to a broken rail.
Canadian Labor Congress executive vice-president Julien Major recently charged that CNR and Canadian Pacific railways derailments have continued to occur due to a federal transport ministry decision last year to lay off railway safety staff and maintenance-of-way crew.
"As a matter of policy it seems they (the federal transport ministry) have decided the rails don't have to be so secure because passenger traffic is decreasing and the traffic is mostly freight trains.
"But freight trains carry dangerous cargo."
He said that railway lay-offs in the past six years have totalled 19,000 employees. The latest cutbacks by CNR cost 1,800 employees their jobs,
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many of whom were maintenance-of-way personnel responsible for keeping the rails in safe condition.
Fraser said that his investigation team already has taken water and gravel samples from different spots of the river near the spill to determine lethal effects on fish.
"We also took tissue samples from incubated alevins for lab analysis to determine lethal concentration levels."
"Right now it is important that we continue monitoring the area," he said.
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there is still a slim chance stocks will appear.
Both on the west coast and the Gulf, processors reported recurrence of rare "pencil roe," undersized roe in large fish that drove down roe recovery. Webb said the phenomenon has been observed before and has not recurred until this year.
March 19 saw 260 to 300 punts begin the first major northern gillnet fishery in Area 7 around Cape Mark. About 3,000 tons was taken in 12 hours. Seines took 2,600 tons in Stryker March 15 and about 2,500 tons in Juan Perez Sound the previous day to kick off the northern seine fishery.
Webb said escapement targets of 33,000 tons were achieved in the central area, where stocks appear stronger. The area closed March 22. For the rest of the week, seines took small amounts in Area 6, Rennel Sound, Inskip and Seal Inlet. Gillnets had further fisheries in Juan Perez and Thompson Bay.
CIFfiWCJ Meetings
STEVESTON SHOREWORKERS
LOCAL 8 ANNUAL MEETING
Tuesday, April 13 8 p.m. STEVESTON COMMUNITY CENTRE
• Election of officers
• Election of Local executive board
• Election of Vancouver Labor Council delegates
• Election of Local committees
IT'S YOUR UNION -COME AND HELP MANAGE YOUR AFFAIRS.
DOOR PRIZE FOR AT-TENDANCE.
UFAWU SENIORS CLUB
Wednesday, April 7 1 p.m.
FISHERMEN'S HALL 138 East Cordova Street
• Film showing
• Card games
• Bingo
ALL RETIRED MEMBERS OF UFAWU AND THEIR SPOUSES INVITED TO ATTEND
Regular meetings of the club will be held on every other Wednesday of the month.
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2/THE FISHERMAN — MARCH 26, 1982