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Richard Morgan photos
• Though the roe herring fishery is over, work continues. Line workers (top) are among the approximately'400 employees who will be kept busy with herring at B.C. Packers' Imperial plant until the summer. UFAWU shoreworker organizer Helen O'Shaughnessy (bottom, centre) handed out copies of The Fisherman and talked to shoreworkers unloading frozen herring just outside the plant.
Buy-back of sets proposed
Lor an-A phaseout urged
The UFAWU wants the phase-out period of the Loran-A navigational system extended at least two years after Loran-C charts become available.
In a brief to federal transport minister Otto Lang, the union's navigational aids and safety at sea committee estimates there are 1,500 Loran-A sets valued at $2 million in use in the B.C. fishing fleet, while some larger vessels installed sets as recently as last year.
The brief also suggests the federal government start a buy-back program for Loran-A sets at full value when Loran-C has proven its capability.
The Canadian Hydrographic Service intends to provide
combination metric navigation and fishing charts for the B.C. coast. The UFAWU brief says it also should complete separate Loran-A and C charts — "because we believe superimposing one grid over the other would cause too much clutter and confusion."
The brief suggests the charts should be on the same scale to facilitate transposition of bearings from one to the other.
Loran-C is expected to come into use on this coast by March, 1977, and according to former UFAWU president Reg Payne, it will require only half as many stations.
Base lines are twice as long and the accuracy of readings should
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be increased greatly. Operating costs also are anticipated to be far less than for the Loran-A system now facing obsolescence.
Payne attended a seminar in February to acquaint loran users with the changeover timetable.
The U.S. phaseout is scheduled to be complete by the end of October, 1979, and if this country were to delay longer it would be compelled to take over the Loran-A stations at Sitka and Pt. Granville, Wash.
"This would be necessary to keep the system working on Canada's Pacific coast," the UFAWU brief points out.
"For obvious reasons, we recommend that if the need arises, such an appropriation be made, since capital costs have already been taken care of and the operating costs would be minimal."
For the Loran-C system, this country will be required to construct only one master station, at Williams Lake, which will work in conjunction with secondary stations at Jordan, Wash, and near Ketchikan. The Williams Lake station is supposed to be completed by this fall and calibrated by next March.
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2/THE FISHERMAN — MAY 7, 1976
