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Space Flight Data May Aid Fishermen
Oceanographic data gathered through manned and unmanned space flights may soon contribute a wealth of new information about the oceans, U.S. assistant secretary of the interior Leslie L. Glasgow said last week.
Dr. Glasgow, who is assistant secretary for fish and wildlife, parks, and marine resources, reported that among the results could be improved methods of harvesting food from the sea, and a clearer understanding of the marine environment as it affects weather, fish distribution, and dispersal of pollutants dumped in the ocean.
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Shoreworker Gains Made
A new agreement covering 240 shoreworkers and embodying significant contract gains has been concluded between Seafood Processing and Allied Workers Local 42 at Coos Bay, Oregon and Peterson's Seafoods.
Gains include three cents a pound more for shrimp pickers, with an additional two cents next March 1. This is equivalent to a 20 cents an hour increase.
Crab pickers won the equivalent of a 30 cent an hour increase, effective when the crab season opens in December.
Improvements were made in the vacation and sick leave clauses, as well as in leave of absence and right to seek relief provisions.
Working conditions for male workers in the plant are vastly improved under the agreement, which runs until August 1, 1971.
Men workers can no longer be worked over six days without a day off. Previously they could be required to work two or three weeks or even longer without a day off.
The new agreement was reached only after protracted negotiations in which workers backed their demands with a five to one strike vote.
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THE FISHERMAN — OCTOBER 17, 1969
with the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries have been working closely with space technologists analyzing data from satellites and manned space vehicles, and preparing for future, more refined uses of the data.
Data received from the Essa and Nimbus satellites and from the manned Gemini and Apollo spacecraft demonstrates the practicality of identifying productive areas of the ocean from space, according to Dr. Glasgow.
This information, together with data from ships and aircraft, has shown, for example, water masses, boundaries or ocean fronts, along which fish tend to concentrate, and areas of water upwelling from deep below the surface, carrying nutrients vital for reproduction and growth of fish.
Data collected from these and other sources will form a nucleus of information which can lead to operational systems for identifying areas of high marine productivity, as well as improved management and conservation procedures. u
Two oceanographer - scientists from the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries are scheduled to spend two weeks in Rome next month, working as consultants to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. They will help develop a background document on the use of satellites in management of fishery resources.
Soviets Exploit New Cod Fishery
The Soviet Union is reported to be developing a new Antarctic fishery by exploiting stocks of notothenia, a species of cod found only in Antarctic waters and limited to temperatures below 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
The fish, which lives at a depth of around 980 feet, average between 21 and 23 inches in length and is said to have a flesh of particularly delicate flavor.
Vessels of the Murmansk trawler fleet of the Soviet Northern Fisheries Administration are conducting the fishery. One, the processing trawler Skazochnik Andersen, was reporting catches averaging between 10 and 20 metric tons per haul.
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• In this picture the late John Dragvik is seen aboard his gillnetter Billy Bob with his wife Violet
Silicosis Claims Life Of UFAWU Veteran
A lifetime encompassing 45 years of work in the fishing and mining industries of this province came to a close October 1 with the death at St. Mary's Hospital, New Westminster, of UFAWU honorary member John Dragvik. He was 69 years of age.
Born at Bogen Ofoten near Narvik on Norway's Arctic coast, he studied for two years at an engineering college in Oslo before economic necessity upset his plans for a higher education and forced him on the labor market where he took up carpentry.
He came to this country in 1924, beginning work soon afterward in the hard rock mining industry, first at Britannia Mine and later at Pioneer and other mines in the Bridge River country.
Ten years employment at Pioneer brought him the dread miner's disease of silicosis which finally took his life. In 1942, given 10 years to live, he left the mine and turned to commercial fishing, an occupation into which he had ventured briefly during the twenties.
GUARDIAN AT RIVERS
He gillnetted in the salmon fishery with a series of boats including the Theima and the first and second Billy Bob. During winter months he followed his trade as a carpenter at local boatyards. For the last three salmon seasons until retiring this spring he worked as a fishery guardian at Rivers Inlet.
A member of the UFAWU since its founding, he belonged to the union's New Westminster Local throughout his years in the industry.
Surviving members of his family include his wife, Violet; two
sons, Robert in Surrey and William in the Philippines; three grandchildren; two brothers, Hans, a UFAWU member, in Coquitlam, and Lars, in Norway, and two sisters, Ellen and Ragnhild, in Norway.
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Cuba Acquires Factory Ships
Cuba is reported to be acquiring three factory ships from Spain to add to its rapidly growing deepsea fishing fleet.
The three vessels, all equipped with lines for fillet production and fish meal plants, are the Aracens, Arcos and Pescafria, which have been operating as part of the Spanish fleet fishing off the coast of South Africa.
Since sale of the three vessels to Cuba under a new exchange agreement will substantially reduce Spanish white fish production, it is expected that they will be replaced with three new fac-•tory ships to be built when the agreement is confirmed by the Spanish government.
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