Eqan fires off protest
• This Peruvian shoreworker was one of the thousands who broke out the national flag over their fish meal plants to demonstrate their support for the government's recent decree nationalizing the fishing industry. Ever since the government imposed controls on the industry after failure of the anchovy fishery last fall, shoreworkers have maintained watch on the plants to prevent removal of equipment by their owners.
Herring spawn above average
Depositions of herring spawn in all areas of the B.C. coast this year are estimated to total 344.5 miles, about the same as in 1972, according to preliminary figures compiled by the federal Fisheries Service. The 25-year average for the period 1940 to 1964 was 199 miles.
Increases in spawn mileage compared to last year were recorded in a number of areas including the northern, upper central, upper east coast and lower east coast sub-districts.
But mileages were down, sometimes substantially, in other parts of the coast, among them the middle east coast, lower west coast and upper west coast sub-districts.
The preliminary estimates are as follows:
Queen Charlotte Islands: total spawn mileage 27.5, mainly in Areas 2BE and 2BW, east and west coasts of Moresby Island. In 1972, 27.8 miles of spawn were recorded. The 25-year average was 20.8 miles.
Northern: total spawn mileage 28.5, mainly in Area 4, Skeena.
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Last year there were 15.7 miles while the 25-year average was 25.9 miles.
Upper central: total spawn mileage 19.8 in Area 6, compared to four miles in 1972 and 17.7 miles averaged over the 25-year period.
Lower central: total spawn mileage 70.2, chiefly in Areas 8 and 9. Last year 72.1 miles were recorded. The 25-year average was 32.1 miles.
Upper east coast: total spawn mileage 130.7, nearly all in Area 12, Johnstone Strait. Just over 75 miles were recorded last year and the 25-year average was 16.4 miles.
Middle east coast: total spawn mileage 11.3, mainly in Areas 13 and 15, well down from 36.3 miles last year and a 25-year average of 29 miles.
Lower east coast: total spawn mileage 27.2, up from 22.8 miles recorded in 1972 but less than the 25-year average of 25.5 miles.
Lower west coast: total spawn mileage 11.7, down drastically from 59.1 miles last year and also less than the 25-year average of 16.3 miles.
Upper west coast: total spawn mileage 17, down from 24.1 miles in 1972 but up slightly from 16 miles in the 25-year average period.
Southern mainland: total spawn mileage 0.6 in Area 29, down from 1.7 last year and 4.7 in the 25-year average period.
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South Korean gillnetter fishes Bristol Bay run
JUNEAU —Alaska's Governor William Egan has fired a strong protest to the U.S. state department against intrusion of a South Korean gillnetter into waters east of the abstention line drawn by the tripartite International North Pacific Fisheries treaty.
The South Korean vessel, identified as the Hae Yean 62, caused considerable damage when it cut through buoy lines and entangled its gillnets with crab pot markers set out by U.S. fishermen in an area north of Cape Sarichef on Unimak Island in the Aleutians.
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel subsequently recovered a radio beacon and two gillnets, one 2,000 feet long, containing salmon, and another 6,000 feet long, in the area. Both gillnets were of the type used by the South Koreans.
In his telegram to ambassador Donald McKernan, special assistant to the U.S. secretary of state and coordinator of oceanic affairs, Egan called on the state department to "enter a vigorous protest against the intrusion of the South Korean fishing vessel Hae Yean 62, and perhaps others, into waters north of Cape Sarichef.
"This South Korean vessel, according to all the evidence gathered by the U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska fish and game protection officers, is fishing for salmon well within the International North Pacific Fisheries convention abstention line," Egan charged.
"While South Korea is not a party to the treaty, I have clearly understood that the South Koreans have had a tacit understanding with the U.S. that South Korean fishing vessels would not intrude into the protected waters.
"All evidence points to the Hae
Yean 62 violating that agreement."
The report has revived fears in Alaska that South Korean fishing companies may be resuming their incursions into the North Pacific high seas salmon fishery.
Three years ago the Sam Ying Fishing Company touched off widespread Canadian and American protests when it sent a gillnet catcher fleet to intercept Bristol Bay salmon runs in violation of a South Korean-United States understanding that South Korean vessels would abstain
from the high seas salmon fishery.
But in 1971 the Japanese newspaper Suisan Keizai reported that the South Korean government had dissolved the company, transferring six of its vessels to the Central Fisheries Cooperative.
This report was received with some scepticism in Canadian and American fishing circles, a scepticism that would appear to be borne out by the new incursion.
Workers getting less of national income
OTTAWA — Working people's share of the total national income is actually decreasing at a time when rising labor productivity is pushing corporate profits to record levels, the Canadian Labor Congress declares in a recent statement.
Referring to the "phenomenal rise" of 13 percent in corporation profits recorded during the first three months of the year, CLC president Donald MacDonald noted that a continuation of this trend will see 1973 profits go up by more than 50 percent from a year earlier.
Inflated corporate earnings in almost all industries have "sweeping and far reaching implications," MacDonald said, "and the facts speak for themselves.
"The proportion of total national income going to profits has reached its highest peak in
eight years. The proportion going to labor income, including salaries, is at its lowest in four years.
"Real purchasing power of wage and salary earners increased by a mere 1.7 percent per person employed over the last year.
"Real base wage increases per worker under collective agreements were hardly any better, only 1.9 percent over the same period. It is perfectly clear that while a rise in labor productivity was a major factor contributing to high profits, the average wage and salary earner got very little out of this productivity increase.
"Organized workers, who have long borne the brunt of savage attacks for insisting they have a right to a more equitable share of wealth produced, can only be appalled at what is going on," MacDonald declared.
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