Soviet 200-mile zone
'Regulate, not exclude'
New weather radio station now on air
MOSCOW — The Soviet government has proclaimed a 200-mile economic zone "as a reaction to the actions of other states," but it has "no intention of hindering foreign fisheries conducted under agreement," according to an article written by Boris Bannov for Novosti press agency.
Under the new law, foreign fishing vessels guilty of violations may be fined up to 100,000 roubles (about $134,000 at current exchange rates) and be subject to confiscation of catch, gear and vessel.
But, writes Bannov, quoting Soviet foreign affairs officials, the new law is not designed to keep out foreign fishing vessels operating under agreement, but to protect and regulate stocks.
Proclamation of the law follows the Supreme Soviet presidium's decision to implement "provisional measures for protecting living resources and regulating
fisheries in the sea areas adjacent to the Soviet Union's coastline."
What it means, in effect, is that "on the basis of scientific data and recommendations of international organizations, fishing quotas will be fixed annually and fishing licences given to foreign vessels."
Bannov is critical of those countries which are barring foreign fleets from their newly established economic or fishing zones, even though they themselves are not exploiting the fish
stocks within those zones. This, he asserts "is additionally complicating the acute shortage of protein products."
The Soviet position, he adds, "is in full accord with the provisions of the draft international convention being worked out by the UN Law of the Sea Conference, but the new law is narrower in character, limiting Soviet competence only to the field of living resources. Ocean research and other problems associated with creation of the economic zone are left aside."
U.S. proposing fees for foreign fleets
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under a schedule of fees proposed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, foreign vessels fishing within the U.S. 200-mile zone will pay a fixed annual access fee of one dollar for each gross registered ton to a maximum of $5,000.
Provision for such fees was made when the Fisherey Conser-
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vation and Management Act empowering the U.S. to extend its fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles was passed into law last year. The new limit goes into effect March 1.
In addition to the gross tonnage fee, every country with vessels fishing inside the zone will be charged 3.5 percent of the total dockside value of the pounds of fish allocated to that country as its quota.
Value of the fish will be determined by the price received by U.S. fishermen for the various species or, if there is no market in the U.S. for a species, by the average foreign dockside price.
Some 1,400 foreign fishing vessels with an average weight of 1,400 gross tons are expected to apply for fishing privileges within the U.S. zone. Their total catch this year, the agency estimates, will be around two million metric tons having a dockside value of $553 million.
Anticipated revenue from tonnage fees is set at $2 million and from dockside charges, $19 million.
An additional $750,000 is expected to be collected from foreign fleets for the cost of U.S. observers to be posted on one fifth of the vessels.
This country's first radio transmitter designed to broadcast weather information continuously and exclusively is now on the air in the Vancouver/Victoria area.
Operated by the Atmospheric Environment Service of the federal department of fisheries and environment, the new Weatheradio Canada service will provide 'listeners with instant access to hourly updated weather reports on a round-the-clock schedule.
Broadcasts are prepared by meteorologists at the Pacific Weather Centre in Vancouver, and relayed by ultra high frequency radio link to the automatic transmitting station.
The transmitter is located at the 602-metre level of Mount Tuam on southwestern Saltspring Island, and has a transmission radius of roughly 75 kilometres, although fringe reception can be expected beyond this in some locations.
Weatheradio Canada call letters are CFA 240, and its signal is transmitted on the 162.40 Megahertz (Mhz) Very High Frequency (VHF), Frequency Modulated (FM) band.
Listeners in Vancouver, the lower mainland, Victoria, Georgia Strait and adjacent shores from the San Juan Islands to southern Texada Island can expect relatively dependable reception.
Reception in shadow areas in the lee of mountains or hills may not be as good, however, as the signal is propagated roughly along line-of-sight.
Quality of reception will depend largely on the quality and type of receiver and antenna used. *
Some receivers are equipped to sound an alarm or display a flashing light when a warning of severe weather is being issued. These warning devices are ac-tiviated automatically by a special signal transmitted by Weatheradio Canada whenever weather warnings are broadcast.
Weather warnings will be transmitted at frequent intervals during regular programming until the danger has passed.
A normal broadcast cycle
averages about eight minutes depending on forecast lengths, and will include a public synopsis and forecast for the listening area, marine synopsis and forecasts for Georgia and Juan de Fuca straits, marine weather observations, mountain forecasts for southwestern B.C. and western Washington, local and cross-Canada observations, B.C. regional and western Washington forecasts, and an aviation weather summary.
Weatheradio Canada stations are being planned for other cities with the intent of having all densely populated areas in the country covered by a coast-to-coast network.
A similar service now exists in many parts of the United States. Two stations in Washington state, one at Seattle and the other at Neah Bay, operate on a frequency of 162.55 Mhz, providing service to Juan de Fuca Strait west of Victoria and the southern U.S. San Juan Islands.
Adams River area set up
VICTORIA — A provincial recreational area has been established along the Adams River near Chase to protect vital sockeye spawning beds, recreation and conservation minister Sal Bawlf announces.
The Adams River Provincial Recreation Area encompasses the river from its source at Adams Lake to its outlet into Shuswap Lake and includes 2,442 acres of crown land.
Encroachments on the Adams River and subsequent deterioration of the spawnings beds prompted joint study by federal and provincial governments into ways of protecting them.
A total of 200 acres of private lands included in the area will be purchased where agreement can be reached with the owners, Bawlff said. Arrangements have been made with the National Second Century Fund of British Columbia for financial assistance in purchasing the lands.
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