Conned Sockeye Pock Begins Upword Climb
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Season Comparison with July 17, July 18, July 19, 1971 1970 1969 Cases Cases Cases (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.) (48 lbs.)
— 395,606 45,569 80,473 38,813 34,771
2,112 1,318
10,024 1,739 597
358,505 107,459 54,354
5,300 1,719 550
previous July 20,
1968 Cases (48 lbs.)
611,011 307,299 188,795
7,416 2,431 514
— 531 98 189 72 57
2,507* 950
2,881 2,804 5
— 111,674 58,624* 24,180 12,172 6,072
— 660,777 5,671 169,371 2,255 64,249
— 242,389 7,147* 19,216 5,797 7,695
— 1,423,882 21,728 297,972 61,377 113,446
584 189 42
2,146 2,144 54
55,566 15,014 3,425
153,386 4,547 2,919
46,369 2,441 1,103
621,856 133,513 62,447
933 254 103
10,389 8,773 1,130
177,205 59,125 11,311
669,347 108,862 52,453
270,688 36,594 14,537
1,746,989 523,338 268,843
years July 15,
1967 Cases (48 lbs.)
558,892 74,814 45,664
14,679 5,017 1,670
1,296 236 118
7,799 4,785 2,269
138,878 38,898 8,309
650,142 10,092 4,440
94,022 11,976 7,104
1,465,708 145,818 69,574
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CATCH AVERAGES
Nine gillnet deliveries in Area 5-2 on July 27 averaged 58 sock-eye, three coho, 18 pinks and four
U.S. Extends Shelf List
WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service has taken steps to prohibit foreign fishing vessels from taking 10 more species of marine animals after determining them to be creatures of the continental shelf. Creatures of the continental shelf are defined in the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf as those which at the har-vestable stage "are immobile or are unable to move except in constant physical contact with the seabed or subsoil of the continental shelf."
Animals added were: precious red corals and black coral; surf clams and ocean quahog; and several Crustacea, Dungeness crab, deep sea red crab, northern stone crab, golden king crab, and two species of California king crab.
Species previously listed by the U.S. include: tanner, king, and stone crabs; red and pink abalone; Japanese abalone; queen conch.
chums. Two seine deliveries averaged 127 sockeye, four coho, 319 pinks and six chums.
In Area 6, the Whale Channel section on July 27 saw 22 gillnet deliveries averaging 57 sockeye, five coho, 30 pinks, 48 chums and one spring. Ten seine deliveries averaged 67 sockeye, nine coho, 55 chums and eight springs.
Wright-Sound - Lewis Passage -Squally Channel saw eight gillnet deliveries averaging 23 sockeye, four coho, 21 pinks and 67 chums, while two seiners averaged 80 sockeye, 33 coho, 75 chums and 32 springs.
Gillnetters in the Dean Channel portion of Area 8 on July 27 made 107 deliveries for averages of 20 sockeye and 32 chums. In Are 10, Smith Inlet, the same day, 17 gillnetters averaged about 80 sockeye.
The fishery in Area 12 on July 27 saw nine gillnet deliveries from Gordon Channel averaging 105 sockeye. In the Malcolm Island - Broughton Strait portion, 36 gillnet deliveries averaged 85 sockeye.
Johnstone Strait portion of Area 12 saw four gillnet deliveries on July 27 averaging 73 sockeye while 63 seine deliveries averaged 219 sockeye.
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No Decision on Opening Of Corridor in Area 20
THE FISHERMAN — JULY 30, 1971
No decision has been announced by the federal fisheries department on its proposal to reopen an offshore corridor to commercial fishing in the eastern portion of Area 20, Juan de Fuca Strait, between Sheringham Point and William Head.
The proposal was discussed at a meeting in Vancouver on July 16 between the department, the UFAWU and other commercial and sports fishing groups.
UFAWU spokesmen Homer Stevens, Alf Hansen and H. Steve Stavenes reiterated the union's view that the closure of Sheringham Point - William Head and Area 19 waters, ordered in 1967, had been totally unwarranted from a conservation standpoint.
The department now concedes that a mistake was made, they pointed out, and has the responsibility of undoing some of the damage caused to the commercial fleet in the four year period.
An error of this size cannot be corrected by the type of half measure proposed by the department, they contended, calling instead for full reinstatement of commercial fishermen's rights in
Albacore Tuna Back Off Oregon
PORTLAND — Return of albacore tuna to Oregon's coastal waters has been confirmed by the research vessel Sunrise, which made its first substantial test catch of 90 fish on July 5.
The vessel reported the existence of large schools of albacore tuna approximately 120 miles offshore.
Landed prices at Astoria were quoted at $630 a ton.
the eastern portion of Area 20 and in Area 19.
UFAWU spokesmen were also opposed to the corridor scheme on the grounds it would create another imaginary line to be policed as a boundary "with all the attendant problems for commercial fishermen as well as federal agencies."
The corridor proposal was made after a four year departmental study involving "extensive investigation" which only served to vindicate the UFAWU's initial opposition to the closure.
The original decision to exclude commercial boats from a traditional salmon fishing area was the result of a campaign conducted by marina operators and others bent on commercializing sports fishing, fanned by certain elements in the news media, and supported by "some real sports fishermen who should have known better," the UFAWU charged.
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Ul RULINGS CONFLICT
The Nova Scotia UIC officials stripped Noble and others of unemployment benefit rights under Regulation 206 on the grounds that loss of employment was due to failure to join the CFAWU rather than a lack of work.
However, in Samson's case, the B.C. board agreed with the UFAWU's position that Section 61 of the UI Act takes precedence over Regulation 206, and specifically protects a man in Noble's position from being denied benefits.
Section 61 states, "Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no insured person is disqualified from receiving benefit by reason of his leaving or refusing to accept employment if by remaining in . . . employment he would lose the right... to refrain from becoming a member of any association, organization or union."
Presenting Samson's case before the Board of Referees in Vancouver were Trade Union Research director Emil Bjar-nason, UFAWU president Homer
Stevens and the union's welfare director, T. Buck Suzuki.
In its findings, the Vancouver Board of Referees noted that Samson, a year round fisherman aboard the Booth Fisheries trawler Jean Fletcher at the time he lost his job, "had the right under Section 61 to refrain from joining the union (CFAWU)."
The UFAWU argument is set out in the current appeal on Noble's behalf to the federal UIC umpire.
It points out that Noble also was a year round fisherman, employed by Acadia Fisheries.
". . . On March 12, 1971, the CFAWU entered into a collective agreement with Acadia Fisheries which included a clause making membership in the union a condition of employment (and) on March 15 the applicant was invited to sign a membership card in the CFAWU, which he refused to do as he was a member of the UFAWU — as were all of the other crew members. He and the other crew members were thereupon discharged . . .
"Uncontested testimony before the Nova Scotia Labor Relations Board . . . has established that the agreement in question was entered into between the CFAWU and Acadia Fisheries without the consent or knowledge of the employees affected, and apparently without any of the crew members having been signed up into the union (CFAWU) before it purported to act on their behalf; this is clearly evident from the fact that the remainder of the crew members, in common with Noble, were discharged for non membership."
The finding by the Nova Scotia Board of Referees that a regulation takes precedence over Section 61 of the Act "seems to defy com-monsense," the UEAWU states. "It would appear to suggest that the ruling of an administrative body can overrule the sovereign will of parliament . . ."
The Nova Scotia officials' decision "is clearly against public policy in that it has the effect of actively taking sides in a labor dispute."
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CBRT STATES STAND
sentation rights. The CFAWU subsequently concluded backdoor agreements with company management.
Reports suggest CLC and CFAWU leaders may have their eyes on sizeable units of CBRT fishermen employed by other Nova Scotia companies such as National Sea Products, Riverport Seafoods and H. B. Nickerson Ltd.
Congress officers have made no bones of the fact they expect the CBRT to surrender its fishing industry membership to the CFAWU.
CLC executive vice-president Joe Morris was quoted last year as saying that congress leaders are confident the CBRT will give up its representation rights in favor of the food workers' union.
The presence of the CBRT in the fishing industry was only a "minor problem," Morris said.
Morris' boast became an issue for debate at the CBRT's annual convention in Quebec City last September.
Outging national president William J. Smith and Atlantic regional vice-president L. K. Abbott both hotly denied any intention
of turning over members in the fishing industry to the CFAWU, a stance now reinforced by Nicholson's statement.
(Smith went on to praise the "heroic struggle" waged by UFAWU trawlermen in the Canso Strait area against Booth and Acadia, declaring he stood "foursquare behind them."
(The CBRT convention also approved in principle two resolutions calling for an examination of the possibilities of a merger involving the UFAWU.)
In an apparent reference to CLC edicts handing jurisdiction to the CFAWU, Nicholson said this month that "decisions about the future of the CBRT and the fishermen who join it will be made by the CBRT and the fishermen, and not by any outsiders."
CBRT members, he said, are "not worried about being ignored by competitors. On the other hand, we are pleased that we are not being ignored by fishermen who wish to join a union freely and of their own accord . . ."
Elsewhere in his statement, Nicholson stressed that "employ-
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