Sitka Daily Sentinel photos Following seizure of the Japanese trawler Akebono Maru II after she was found fishing 9.3 miles off Chicagof Island inside the 12 mile zone, some 300 Alaskan troll fishermen staged two days of protest meetings and demonstrations in Sitka June 29-30 to demand hat maximum penalties provided under the North Pacific fisheries reaty — confiscation of the vessel and gear and SIO.000 fine or one year's imprisonment for the captain — be imposed. The Japanese trawler had 60 tons of black cod and 20 tons of red snapper in her freezer hold when she was boarded by a party from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Clover. At top, fishermen and their wives picket Sitka post office and bottom, some of the protesters' boats are seen tied up at Sitka floats.
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'Norpac Treaty Jeopardized'
U.S. Commissioners Meet On South Korean Threat
With the South Korean invasion of the high seas fishery reportedly the main topic at its discussions, the U.S. section of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission met in Seattle earlier this month.
Although no public statement
was issued following the meeting, the three U.S. members, Charles H. Meacham, Milton E. Brooding and Elmer E. Rasmuson, subsequently disclosed some aspects of their discussions at meetings held in Naknek, Bristol Bay cannery centre, during their visit to Alaska
Run Fulfills Forecast
Bristol Bay Catches Too Big for Canners
Scientists of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and Alaska fish and game department have cause for satisfaction, for the return of sockeye to Bristol Bay has fulfilled their forecasts of a record run this year.
At mid-month the run was estimated to have peaked at a record 35 million fish and appeared certain to reach the 50 to 60 million predicted by scientists.
While the scientists had cause for satisfaction, the fishermen had cause for complaint, despite the record size of the run.
With a catch estimated at more than 14 million fish at July 12, canneries were unable to handle all the huge production.
"Most of the 13 canneries working around Bristol Bay continue to buy fish only on an intermittent basis." the Kodiak Mirror reported. "Some are on 12 hour periods. Others allow fishing for 24 hour periods, then halt buying for 24 hours while the plants process the catch."
CANNERS CRITICIZED
Alaska fish and game commissioner Wallace H. Noerenberg reported that "canneries are working at or near capacity, but the large fleet of boats is able to match this capacity within a few hours each day.
"This means that during a given fishing period only a few boats are able to participate in the catch and this is allowing a large portion of the run to escape up the rivers.
"There are increasing reports, backed by considerable evidence, that some fishermen are dumping their catches because they cannot find a market for their fish."
CANADIANS PARTICIPATE
Alaska state senator Joe Joseph-son was critical of the canners, declaring:
"Here is the United States of America arguing conservation principles with the South Korean and Japanese governments while we simultaneously waste that resource and fail to process and market what we harvest.
"We clamp down on the South Koreans. We clamp down on the Japanese. And we find that we should have clamped down on the canning industry right here. We've left fishermen with a record harvest and no place to sell it."
Several Canadian vessels were pressed into service as packers to transport a small part of the huge
catch to Prince Rupert and Vancouver, the first time that Canadian companies have been allowed to send boats into Bristol Bay to buy salmon.
One of six Nelson Brothers and Canadian Fishing Company vessels sent to Bristol Bay was the Western Express skippered by UFAWU member Ray Pedersen of North Delta.
The Western Express made the round trip of more than 4,100 miles from Steveston to Bristol Bay and back to pick up 75,000 sockeye, which were carried in brine tanks and arrived in prime condition.
Another Canadian vessel, Emil Jensen's Royal Venture, made the 4,000 mile round trip from Prince Rupert to bring in 97,000 fish for Canadian Fishing Company.
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"to obtain and study information which will enable us to make sound decisions when we discuss the treaty again next fall."
Brooding told a meeting of fishermen and processors at Naknek that if the South Koreans were permitted to fish east of the 175 degrees west longitude abstention line the present North Pacific fisheries treaty, which now continues only from year to year, could be jeopardized.
"The Japanese have told us that if we allow the South Koreans to fish east of the treaty line where Japanese fishermen are not permitted, they will have second thoughts about the whole treaty," Brooding declared.
"I can assure you that we take this matter of South Korean intervention very seriously."
Meacham, chairman of the U.S. section, said the U.S. was "definitely opposed to any high seas fishing of anadromous fish.
"Fishing of this type is indiscriminate because stocks are mixed and therefore it interferes with the orderly management of the salmon fisheries," he pointed out.
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THE FISHERMAN — JULY 24, 1970