• Handsome longliner Bering Sea. shown here soon after her completion in the spring of 1959, was towed into Prince Rupert last weekend after breaking down with clutch trouble in Gulf of Alaska. Longliner Elling K towed the disabled craft for almost two days before being relieved by a tug.  Bering Sea brought in 65,000 pounds of halibut from Shumagin Islands area.
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Engine Breakdown
'Bering Sea' Towed To Prince Rupert
PRINCE RUPERT — The longliner Bering Sea, skippered by Olav Rorstad, arrived at Prince Rupert under tow last weekend after breaking down with engine trouble in the Gulf of Alaska.
After the mishap occurred late on Wednesday, May 26, the Bering sea was towed for the best part of two days by another B.C. longliner, the Elling K, before the tug Westbridge One arrived on the scene and took over.
Gary Latval, UFAWU delegate on the Elling K, said the two longliners and a third, the Attu,had been travelling homeward across the Gulf after fishing the Shumagin Islands area.
The Elling K used her anchor cables as a towline and made good progress with the crippled vessel. Weather conditions deteriorated rapidly on Thursday, however, and the towline had to be replaced at one stage after parting in gale force winds and a heavy sea.
Friday saw the weather moderating considerably and no problems were encountered transferring the tow to the West-bridge One about 250 miles west of the approaches to Dixon Entrance.
The 73 foot tug, owned by Rivtow Straits Ltd. and normally employed berthing ore carriers at Tasu Sound, had been en route from Tasu to Prince Rupert when a call came to aid the Bering Sea.
Tug and tow arrived safely in Prince Rupertxlate on Saturday after an uneventful passage.
With Rorstad on the Bering Sea when she cleared for this season's halibut fishing were UFAWU members Lars Iversen, Sigurd Nordkville, Mel Bussey, Tom Glendinning, Byron Wright, Knut Bristed and Ron Hill.
Rorstad and Iversen, well known figures in the B.C. fishing industry, are co-owners of the steel hulled fishing vessel, built by John Manly Ltd. at New Westminster in 1959.
The Bering Sea sold her 65,000 pound trip at Prince Rupert this week. The Elling K's 90,000 pound trip was delivered at Vancouver.
Commission Will Charter Longliner
International Pacific Halibut Commission will accept tenders until June 28 for a halibut longline vessel to conduct gear research and other field investigations in Hecate Strait and off Kodiak Island during a 45 day charter period beginning after July 1.
Interested owners can obtain tender forms and further information on the terms of charter from the IPHC, P.O. Box 9, University Station, Seattle, Wash. 98105. Telephone number is ME 4-1838.
More Hatcheries, Channels Sought
OTTAWA — Stepped up construction of artificial spawning channels and hatcheries was called for by the Fisheries Council of Canada at its annual meeting here last month.
The council urged the federal fisheries department and International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission to extend spawning channel and hatchery programs in a drive to boost salmon stocks on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the Great Lakes.
It also strongly endorsed "Canada's position that the continental shelf be redefined as the
Bellingham Hearing Set
Opponents of Atlantic Richfield Company's application for a permit to dump 3,740,000 gallons of effluent daily into Strait of Georgia will have an opportunity to voice their objections at a public hearing in Bellingham this month.
The hearing will open at 7 p.m. on June 22 at Church of the Assumption gymnasium, 2116 Cornwall Avenue, Bellingham, Wash.
Atlantic Richfield is seeking a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, acting on behalf of the U.S. federal government, to discharge the effluent from its new oil refinery at Cherry Point, just south of the B.C.-Washington border.
The $150 million refinery, expected to go into production next year, is designed to handle supertankers plying the proposed controversial route through Juan de Fuca Strait from Valdez, Alaska.
Both the tanker project and the effluent dumping application have been protested by the UFAWU and commercial fishermen's and conservation groups in both countries.
The question plaguing opponents of the scheme now is whether the oil company's plans are so far advanced as to make a farce of the hearings.
Atlantic Richfield already has obtained approval for the dumping from Washington state's department of ecology and the Corps of Engineers itself has given the company permission to proceed with construction of a dock for supertankers at Cherry Point.
Terms of the existing state permit call for release of refinery effluent about 12 miles south of Boundary Bay.
A state permit would have been all that was required before passage of a new U.S. federal law making necessary a federal disposal permit from the Corps of Engineers as well.
The refinery effluent will have a daily content of 290,000 pounds of solids. Waste ingredients will include chloride, sulfate, oil and grease. Maximum temperature of the effluent at point of discharge will be 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
geological continental shelf and slope," a move it said is needed because technological developments now have rendered "meaningless" the old concept of the continental shelf as the only offshore area open to commercial exploitation.
"Virtually all of the seabed is now technically exploitable," it noted.
In another resolution, the council urged Ottawa to press the 1973 Law of the Sea Conference to recognize that "anadromous species are the property of the country of origin," and that "ownership of the creatures on and over the continental shelf and slope is vested in the coastal state which is responsible for . . . conservation and management of those stocks and the fisheries thereon."
Salmon, for example, "depend for their existence on policies (applied by) their host countries" but at the same time are "susceptible to capture by fishermen of any nation on the high seas," the council pointed out. OIL ROUTE SCORED
The annual meeting also:
• Called on the federal government to "strongly oppose" the projected supertanker route from Valdez, Alaska, to the Puget Sound-Georgia Strait area, contending that past experience already has established the threat posed to marine life by such methods of marine transportation of oil.
• Urged Ottawa to insist on adoption of "rigid international standards of construction" for oil tankers plying international waters.
Church Bombs Fighting Cleric
CANSO, N.S. — In their long fight for basic trade union rights, Canso Strait fishermen have faced many forms of intimidation, culminating in the firing of those who stood by the union of their choice.
On May 21, a similar tactic was used against one of their staunch-est friends and allies, Rev. Ron Parsons, the Anglican rector of Canso who has backed them consistently throughout the dispute.
Citing "sharp divisions of opinion" in the community, the Anglican hierarchy announced that Parsons would be relieved of his pastoral duties at Canso on August 31.
Where the "sharp divisions" lie is clear enough. Parsons' efforts on behalf of working fishermen and their families, as he himself says, "got to be repugnant to the fish barons" and his bishop Ifts been "under heavy pressure" to silence him.
But a campaign is mounting among fishermen and other parishioners to change the bishop's decision. As UFAWU organizer Edison Lumsden said, "He (Parsons) likes it here and we like to have him here, so we don't think a minority should be able to pressure him out."
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