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New stocks found off Namu
Shrimp fishery expansion seen
A significant expansion in the shrimp fishery off the central coast area could follow in the wake of recent discoveries by federal fisheries scientists.
Actually, the expansion has already started, here and on the west coast near Tofino, with B.C. Packers and the Pacific Trydent, subsidized with federal money
and one of the boats which fished, during this year's herring strike.
The fisheries research vessel G. B. Reed conducted experimental trawls in April which located some 150 square miles of productive shrimp grounds centred 30 miles wouthwest of Namu in Queen Charlotte Sound.
"This confirms earlier predic-
Accident bereaves Aiyansh families
PRINCE RUPERT — Four young Aiyansh residents with strong family ties to the fishing industry and the UFAWU were killed instantly on the Cassiar cannery road June 22 when their light van failed to negotiate a curve, swerved into a ditch and struck the trunk of a fallen tree.
Pronounced dead at Prince Rupert Regional Hospital were the driver, Tyrone Clyde Adams, 19; Dennis Stanley Adams, 11; Wayne Lloyd Adams, 22, and his wife Debbie Rose, 18.
The four had come here for summer fishing with the parents of the brothers, and were living at Cassiar.
Tyrone Adams had just graduated from Caledonia School in Terrace. Dennis had been attending school in Aiyansh but his parents had taken him out early in order to make the summer move here.
Wayne Adams and his wife, the former Debbie Blackwater, had been married only a short time, their wedding having taken place Easter Monday in Aiyansh.
A memorial service for Mrs. Adams was held at Kispiox, her parents' home, on June 27. Burial of all four victims of the accident took place the following day at Aiyansh.
The three brothers are sur-
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vived by their parents, Roy and Selina Adams of Aiyansh, a younger brother Joe and younger sister Josie, and a grandmother, Esther Adams. Roy Adams is a long time UFAWU member who fishes for Cassiar Fisheries.
Debbie Adams is survived by her • parents, David and Edith Blackwater. An uncle, Walter, is chief shop steward at Cassiar.
RCMP investigating the accident reported that the vehicle was turned sideways in the ditch when its windshield smashed into the tree trunk. The impact tore the right hand side of the van completely open.
tions by our scientists working in conjunction with the service's industrial development branch, that appreciable new stocks might exist in the area," declares station director Dr. W. E. Johnson.
According to T. E. Butler, research scientist in charge of the station's crustacean program, present stock should permit a catch of about five million pounds annually, which at current prices would be worth about $750,000 to fishermen.
Traditionally a small, offseason fishery centred in inside, sheltered waters, the shrimp fishery has produced catches of about a million and a half pounds annually for the past 10 years, taken mainly from grounds in English Bay, Comox, Ladysmith, Chemainus and Barclay Sound.
The change came two years ago, Butler notes. In 1972 the industrial development branch surveyed grounds off Tofino. The following May it subsidized the Pacific Trydent for a trial fishery, with a total of approximately 800,000 pounds of shrimp being taken by three vessels.
At the same time, the G.B. Reed made another survey of the grounds, mapping their extent and- estimating stocks at 15.3 million pounds.
Butler reports that the Tofino grounds are producing good catches this year, most of which are processed in Tofino by Tofino Fisheries.
"Early this year we knew that B.C. Packers was interested in carrying out another shrimp operation at Namu," Butler relates. "The G.B. Reed went out in April. We found the extent of the Namu grounds to be about 154 square miles compared to 160 square miles at Tofino.
"These are the two largest concentrations on the B.C. coast and neither of them was fished prior to 1972."
B.C. Packers has installed new mechanical shrimp peelers at Namu to cope with the expected expansion of the local fishery, in which the Pacific Bandit and Pacific Immortal are two of the boats engaged.
Butler points out that shrimps are more abundant on the coast than they were 10 or 15 years ago, "brought about by some factor we really don't understand. If it's some kind of natural factor, it could change again. I think that fishermen and processors alike should realize that this could happen in the future. I believe the fishery will expand, but to what extent, it's impossible to tell right now."
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THE FISHERMAN — JULY 12, 1974/7