U.S. fishermen get 30% of retail price
WASHINGTON — High retail prices for fish being paid by American consumers can hardly be attributed to the prices paid to fishermen. According to preliminary figures released this month by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, commercial fishermen received, on the average, 30 per cent of the retail price paid by consumers for their product.
Estimated total retail value of the 4.7 billion pounds of fish landed by American fishermen last year was $2.1 billion. Of this fishermen received $704 million.
Although fish landings declined six percent from the 1971 total of five billion pounds, their landed value rose nine percent, from $643 million to $704 million.
San Pedro, with landings of 452.4 million pounds and a landed value of $59 million, was the top fishing port. Kodiak was sixth in landed value at $15.3 million and seventh in volume at 119.1 million pounds.
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Commons,CLC join outcry against French H-tests
Adding its voice to worldwide protests initiated by trade unions and governments in Australia, New Zealand and Chile, the Canadian Labor Congress last week denounced France's atmospheric nuclear testing program in the South Pacific and urged congress members to "show their profound disgust" by taking "appropriate economic action against France."
In a parallel move, the House of Commons endorsed a resolution by two New Democratic MPs — Ran Harding (Kootenay West) and Barry Mather (Surrey-White Rock) — appealing to France for an end to the tests.
Displaying rare unanimity, the House decided to condemn the nuclear blasts "in similar terms to those adopted by this chamber on the Amchitka Island test by the U.S. and other tests by France last year."
In Australia, where feeling is running high, trade unionists voted to stop work on French ships and aircraft and to restrict communications between the two countries. Workers employed by some French owned companies in Australia also have staged protest walkouts.
At The Hague, the International Court of Justice last week heard an Australian application for an interim injunction pending a final decision on separate appeals against the tests filed by the governments of Australia and New Zealand.
Both governments allege that French testing at Mururoa Atoll north of Tahiti violates international law and the United Nations charter.
France is boycotting the court session. Earlier this month, France's foreign minister Michel Jobert said he was "astonished" at what he called "orchestrated campaigns" to stir up public opinion against the tests in Australia and New Zeland.
Recalling one of the points made here by opponents of the U.S. underground blasts at Amchitka Island, a member of the Socialist opposition recently asked the Gaullist government why the tests could not be held in France itself if they were as harmless as the government claimed.
The crew of a New Zealand protest ship sailing into the testing area said May 13 at Pitcairn Island they were prepared to die or suffer exposure to nuclear radiation "in the belief that these tests are a crime against planet earth . . ."
The New Zealand government earlier announced it would send a naval frigate into the area and Australia said it would provide a naval fuelling and supply vessel.
U.S. scientist and peace worker Linus Pauling, who won his second Nobel Prize in 1964 for work on the harmful effects of atmospheric nuclear tests, said May 1 during an Australian tour that the Mururoa project undoubtedly will produce more abnormal babies and cancer patients.
Pauling estimated that a 20 megaton explosion could produce half a million birth defects and an equal number of persons afflicted with cancer. France is already believed to have detonated 30 nuclear blasts at Muroroa since 1966, two of them of two megatons
each and the others of undetermined smaller size.
In another protest against the tests, the World Federation of Trade Unions has expressed solidarity with trade unionists in various countries, including France, who are taking "united action to secure cancellation of the nuclear bomb tests by the French government."
Decision of the French government to proceed with the tests violates the test ban treaty signed by more than 100 countries, the WFTU pointed out.
"Peoples and governments of countries most affected — especially Australia, New Zealand, Chile and some others
— have emphatically demanded immediate cancellation of these tests, which gravely endanger the human environment, and have called for united action against the tests."
The WFTU noted that trade unions and other organizations in France itself, including the country's largest labor centre, Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), in expressing opposition to the tests, have branded the Gaullist "nuclear striking force" policy as a "colossal waste of scientific and technological resources" and a threat to the ' 'best interests of the people of France and of all humanity."
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PORTS SOUTH OF CAPE CAUTION
Week Ending van- Vic- Uclu- Winter Net
Troll Salmon MAY U/73 couver toria elet Harbor Caught
Red Spring .........286,000 10,000
Large.................... Sl.20-.25 $1.18-.21 S1.15--20 $1.12
Medium ......... 85-92C 88c 82-87c 79c
Small ............ 60-80C 75c 62-74C 66c
White Spring ....... 29,000 —
Large ............ 65-88C 76c 70-75c 67c —
Medium ......... 52-66C 52c 46-51c 43c —
Small ............ 45-53C 46c 40-45C 37c —
Jack Spring 4,000 —
Mixed .............. 72,000 —
Vancouver Corr. Week
Price Range of 1972
Halibut .......... 9,000 ' 55-70C 246,000
Other Fish
GreyCpd ........750,000 Rd.8c 610,000
Dr. 12c —
Ling Cod ......... 53,000 Rd.20c 104,000
Dr. 30c —
Sole ............. 53,000 12c 122,000
Black Cod ....... 77,000 — 1,000
Red & Rock Cod .. 26,000 10-30c 420,000
Perch and Bass .. 47,000 — 67,000
Flounder ..... 8,000 7-8c 2,000
Skate ............ 5,000 8c 8,000
Octopus ......... — — 2,000
Minkfeed ........ — — 28,000
Reduction ....... 10,000 — —
Sturgeon ........ 2,000 — 1,000
Eulachon ........ 7,000 — —
Smelts .......... 2,000 — —
Shrimp (shell) ... — — 1,000
Shrimp (meat) 3,000 $1.80 2,000
Crabs (shell) ..... 44,000 50-60c 16,000
Prawns .......... 2,000 — 16,000
Clams .......... 150,000 13-23C 33,000
PORTS NORTH OF CAPE CAUTION
Troll Salmon
Red Spring ......... 11,000
Large ............
Medium .........
Small ............
White Spring ..... 2,000
Large ............
Medium .........
Small ............
Other Fish
Grey Cod ........ 68,000
Ling Cod ......... 3,000
Sole .............141,000
Black Cod ....... 1,000
Red & Rock Cod .. 7,000
Perch and Bass .. 1,000
Flounder ...... 18,000
Skate ............ 12,000
Turbot .......... 31,000
Minkfeed ........ 16,000
Clams .......... 15,000
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Net Caught
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