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• Bob Karliner is pictured here, centre, speaking during launching ceremonies in July for the Arctic Harvester, 116-foot combination vessel built for Karliner Fisheries Ltd. by Benson Bros. Shipbuilding (1960) Ltd. at a cost of S1.2 million. Backed by a
federal subsidy and a four percent longtime loan from the New Brunswick government, vessel now is fishing herring on Atlantic coast. The Benson yard launched Karliner's first steel vessel, Pacific Harvester, 11 years ago.
Now fishing herring out of Caraquet, New Brunswick, for Anglo-B.C. Packing Company, the new 116-foot Vancouver built seiner Arctic Harvester is "performing well on the grounds and has shown herself to be an excellent sea boat," according to one .of her co-owners, Ken Monroe of North Vancouver.
Monroe, who talked to The Fisherman about the new vessel last week just after returning home from the East coast, is one of the five-man partnership, headed by Robert Karliner of Delta, which owns the highly sophisticated fishing craft.
Other shareholders are Art Olsen, currently skipper of the Caraquet based Atlantic Harvester, built by Karliner in 1968, and two East coast fishermen, Alfred Chiasson and Edmund LeBouthillier.
Described by her designers, naval architects Cove, Hatfield and Company of North Vancouver, as "in all probability the most effective fish catching unit yet launched into Canadian waters," the Arctic Harvester was delivered to her owners in July by the well known Benson Bros, shipyard in Vancouver.
In 1960, Benson's built Karliner's first steel vessel, the Pacific Harvester, currently owned by Ron May, and, like her two larger successors, employed in the Atlantic coast herring fishery.
The Arctic Harvester — total cost about $1.2 million — was built with a 35 percent federal subsidy and a 50 percent long term loan from the New Brunswick provincial government.
Since arriving in New Brunswick, the new vessel has been fishing herring in Baie Chaleur, whose waters divide New Brunswick and Quebec, and has been recording good catches within three or four hours' travelling time from the plant at Caraquet, Monroe said.
He added that costs of a tuna seine are being examined with the "definite intention" of putting the vessel into the tuna fishery some time this winter.
There are also plan vessel for capelin an fishing off northern dland and the Labrac
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FIVE PARTNERS
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