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With quota all but gone, longliners tie up for 1979
The 1979 halibut season overfishing." the wire said. Petersen said fisherme
The 1979 halibut season stumbled to a frustrating ending Aug. 14 for Canadian longliners who learned that a promised Aug. 29 opening in the Canadian section of Area 2 had been cancelled.
The International Pacific Halibut Commission announced the cancellation in a news release that revealed that Canadian fishermen took 521,000 pounds in the third opening between July 28 and Aug. 5.
With only about 80,000 pounds remaining in the Canadian quota already approved by the commission, fishermen were forced to agree that further openings were impossible, even if the commission acceded to demands to allow Canadians to take their full 5.4 million pound quota.
The season ended with Canadians landing only 5.1 million pounds in Area 2, 300,000 short of the preseason goal. American fishermen were almost 1 million pounds over their target at 4.5 million pounds.
Halibut fishermen acknowledged their temporary defeat in the struggle for a full quota in a telegram Aug. 13 to IPHC director Don McCaughren.
Sent just after the fishermen had learned of the catch during the third opening, the telegram urged the commission to close the fishery for the rest of the year.
"It is evident to us that the commission would not be able to allow another viable opening without risking a state of
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overfishing," the wire said. "Had we been granted our delayed opening as requested, this problem would have been averted and we would all have had a chance to participate in another opening."
The fishermen had requested a postponement of a third opening while the commission studied ways of achieving the full quota this year. They tied up to show their determination.
But their protest was undermined and ultimately defused by more than 90 vessels which participated in the third opening in defiance of the tie-up.
Tony Petersen, spokesman for the longliners committee that spear-headed the protest, said Aug. 14 the battle isn't over.
"In 1980 we want the 60-40 split of thequota as prescribed in the halibut agreement with the United States, plus what we lost this year. Part of that may have to come from the Alaska Area 2 quota.
"But it was obvious there was no way we could have a full allocation this year and have the fishery managed properly."
Paul Prpich was seine veteran
Members of Vancouver Fishermen's Local 1 are mourning the death of long-time seiner and UFAWU honourary member Paul Prpich July 6. He was 74.
Born in Smiljan, Yugoslavia, Prpich came to Canada in 1930 and settled in Vancouver.
He spent several years in logging camps before he started fishing in various parts of the west coast in the late 1930s. He signed his first union card in 1941.
A long-time member of the UFAWU, Prpich fished salmon abord many seiners before he came to be half-owner of a seiner Nafco. Prpich retired at the age of 66 and was granted UFAWU honourary membership in 1971.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Pauline Milcovich and Marline D. Prpich, both ofVan-
Petersen said fishermen also will be seeking meetings with Canadian fisheries officials to demand an explanation of the burgeoning fleet with halibut licences.
A licence limitation scheme imposed this spring to control entry to the halibut fishery had licensed just over 300 boats earlier in the year, he said. But by mid-August, the number had sky-rocketed to well over 400.
IPHC spokesman Dick Myrhe said the growth in the Canadian fleet contributed to management problems. Although many vessels dropped out after the first two halibut openings to fish salmon, there were enough left after the tie-up to take the remaining Canadian quota.
The commission probably will meet in September to tackle the problem of conflicting U.S. and Canadian quotas. Myrhe said.
"The whole thing is terribly messy. It's almost intolerable the way it is now and I guess the governments will have to establish a system that allows us to manage and allows fishermen to survive."
Landings on the Prince Rupert halibut exchange were low during the third opening, suggesting that many vessels made direct sales or sold in the United States. Prices ranged between $2,725 and $2,761. *Ivy A. delivered 13,000 pounds Aug. 2, while Cape Beale (14,000 pounds), Sea N (1,000), Chatham Point (2,000), Winter Wind (2,500) and Nalle (13,000) all landed Aug. 3. Double Island (4,000) came in Aug.
Landing at the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op were Brooks Bay (13,000), Fritzi Ann (13,000), Old Salt (15,000), Proud Canadian (9,000), Dia-mantina (6,500), Dicky Boy (3,500), Bernera (8,000), Windward Isle (16,500), Clipper 2 (9,000) and Viking Star (23,000).
Prince Rupert landings totalled 116,500 pounds. No Vancouver halibut exchange transactions were reported.
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