Openings extended in Rivers,
inlets
Good sockeye fishing in central area
Averages in excess of 100 sock-eye per boat were recorded by central area gillnetters July 10 at the beginning of this week's opening in Areas 9 and 10, Rivers and Smith inlets, according to field reports compiled by the federal fisheries department.
Reports from Rivers Inlet on July 10 showed 795 deliveries by a fleet of some 900 gillnetters producing averages of 115 sockeye per boat while incomplete figures from Smith Inlet indicated that averages of 130 sockeye were being made outside Ripon Point and 110 sockeye in the inside waters.
About 50 seine deliveries in Area 9 on the same date produced 17,246 pinks.
At about six pounds each, average weight of Rivers Inlet sockeye was down substantially from last week, the department said.
In the previous opening, which was extended to give a total of four days' fishing between July 2 and July 6, first deliveries produced averages of about 100 sockeye per gillnetter in the inside waters of Rivers Inlet and averages of 80 to 85 sockeye in the outside waters.
Catches fell on the second day
when approximately 600 gillnetters made deliveries totalling 32,045 sockeye for averages of between 50 and 55 per boat.
Catches were reportedly better in Area 10, Smith Inlet, where 120 gillnetters in outside waters averaged about 100 sockeye on July 3. Inside the inlet, 30 boats averaged 66 sockeye. Good averages of 95 sockeye were again recorded in 169 gillnet deliveries the following day.
Another large gillnet fleet was concentrated in Area 4 as the Skeena River net fishery got underway last week.
Originally scheduled for two days, the Skeena opening was extended by 24 hours, closing at 6 p.m. on July 5.
Deliveries on July 3 from an estimated 379 gillnetters produced 16,000 sockeye — an average of about 42 per boat — 2,200 chums and 1,700 coho.
Averages dropped July 4 when a fleet of the same size delivered 13,000 sockeye, but picked up on the third day when averages of 42 sockeye again were attained.
Fisheries department sources in Prince Rupert said last week's results indicated the Skeena fishery was "running pretty close to predictions" and expressed
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have, particularly the frozen salmon market, then that will have to be a feature of future negotiations."
The 1978 negotiations were marked by company intransigence on union price demands and refusal to broaden the scope of the agreement to cover safety, pension and medical issues of major concern to fishermen.
Even before taking the previous company offer to the mnembership, the union committee made major concessions to the association in an effort to secure agreement.
The union was forced to drop proposals that the companies pay
half the cost of fishermen's contributions to the Canada Pension Plan and the B. C. Medical Plan.
The companies did agree, however, to continue installation of blowers and sniffers in company vessels and to discuss establishment of a committee to study the mechanics of a dental plan.
They also agreed, with some conditions, to a safety study carried out by the existing union-association committee.
The union entered negotiations proposing prices of $1.35 for sockeye, 75 cents for pinks, $1.15 for coho, $1.15 for chums, $1.30 for large red and white springs, $1.15 for small red and white Springs and $1 a fish for jack springs under five pounds.
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Elsewhere on the north coast, the Nass River fishery, Area 3, attracted about 100 gillnetters, compared with five times that number when net fishing in the area was at its height in mid-June.
Results on July 4 showed 25 gillnetters averaging 60 sockeye apiece in 3X, 40 gillnetters averaging 40 sockeye in 3Y and 41 gillnetters averaging 70 sockeye and 25 chums in 3Z. On the same date, 14 seiners averaged 70 to 75 sockeye and 160 chums in 3Y.
On the west coast of Vancouver Island, 190 gillnet deliveries on July 4 in Area 23, Barkley Sound, produced some 12,000 sockeye for an average of about 65 per boat, while 36 seine deliveries accounted for 7,100 sockeye the same day.
Total catch for the week by seiners and gillnetters in Barkley Sound was 29,000 sockeye and 1,450 springs, while the season's total to date for both gears stands
at 172,970 sockeye and 16,011 springs.
Other areas of moderate activity last week included Area 6, where 73 seiners in the Whale Channel-Campania Sound portion on July 3 produced 37,306 pinks, 3,685 chums and 2,543 sockeye, while 14 seiners in the Lewis Passage-Squally Channel area landed 5,287 pinks and 908 chums.
Total catch for the week by seiners in Area 6 was 91,685 pinks, 13,744 chums, 10,230
sockeye, 3,028 coho and 1,142 springs.
In Area 7, Milbanke Sound, July 4 saw 39 seine deliveries totalling 8,988 pinks, 2,554 sockeye, 1,270 coho and 1,120 chums while 16 gillnet deliveries produced 614 sockeye, 301 chums and 164 pinks.
The week's catch by seiners in Area 7 totalled 13,093 pinks, 4,240 sockeye, 2,500 chums and 2,284 coho.
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