January 19, 1962
THE FISHERMAN
Page 7
THIRD FLOOR MEATS TJStS.
842-POUND STURGEON
On Display and On Sale Thursday and Friday AT EATON'S Third Floor Fish Counter!
This huge, frtsh sturgeon was caught in the- Fraier River by Mr. Hank Watts of tHw Westminster . . . and now it on display, and on sale Thursday and Friday at EATON'S! Sold by the piece or sliced! Per lb..........................................
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TURKEYS E*
Grade, fresh choice, 1961 hatch, meaty, tender, young torn birdi. Buy now and save, store in your freezer, 22 lbs. and P*' lb.,...........
up 35c
DUCKLINGS il0^,
plump, meaty, young Manitoba-grown birds. 5 lb. average, *jfl.
per lb., ................. wTC
Third Floor, South, Dept. 281.
HIGH PRICE FOR WHOM? This advertisement appeared as part of a full page display inserted by Eaton's in the Winnipeg Free Press of October 25, 1961. The only figure needed to complete the story is the price paid to Fraser River fishermen — around 25 cents a pound.
Research Bureau Offers Correspondence Courses
A correspondence course on labor journalism Is the latest of the new educational services being offered to labor organisations by the Trade Union Research Bureau of Vancouver. Object of the course is to help train correspondents for trade union papers in outlying regions where instructors are not readily available.
The course of six lessons will include: how to improve your writing; how to write up news items, speeches, feature stories, press releases and interviews. It is open to all trade unionists and their families.
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The course will normally last from six to twelve weeks depending upon the progress of the student.
Cost of the course is $15. Where two or more people take the course as a group, there is a special rate of $12 per person.
The Trade Union Research Bureau has announced that this course will soon be followed by one on labor economics, now in preparation.
Further information can be secured by writing or phoning: Trade Union Research Bureau, 339 West Pender, Vancouver, B.C. Phone Mutual 1-5831.
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How To Define Fisherman?
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• This is the third article of a series on the recent public hearing at Ottawa conducted by the federal committee of inquiry into the Unemployment Insurance Act. Previous articles appeared in the December 8 and 18 issues.
By WILLIAM RIGBY
HEADERS of The Fisherman will be particularly interested in those representations made to the federal committee of inquiry into the Unemployment Insurance Act that specifically referred to the position of fishermen under the Act.
Employment in lumbering and logging, transportation by water, stevedoring and fishing were all originally excluded under the first Unemployment Insurance Act of 1940 and now are covered.
But a listing of the years in which the coverage extension occurred (lumbering and logging, 1945 in BC, 1950 in the rest of Canada; transportation by water, 1946; stevedoring, 1948; and fishing in 1957) shows that it was more difficult for fishermen than for the other excluded workers to gain recognition of the fact that their occupation is a job differing in form but not in essence from other industrial employments.
The fishermen were the last of the listed groups to be added and they were doubly unfortunate in that the year was 1957. Contributions for fishing employment started April 1, 1957, and the first possible benefit payments for which such contributions could be considered' were in December 1957.
It is well known that the continued reduction of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, which has led to the prediction that it will be I exhausted before this winter ends, started in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1958.
Thus the accidental coincidence of the delayed extension of coverage to fishermen has cast them in the role of the convenient scapegoat, whose appearance serves to obscure the causes of the Fund's depletion.
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THE NATURE OF THE BASIC
economic relationships in the fishing iridustry is a riddle wrapped
in a mystery to most outside observers, including highly educated lawyers and other professional persons.
The great variety of fisheries encountered in various parts of our vast country, the different fish species "manufactured," the multitude of methods of capture and of types and sizes of vessels employed, the fact that in fishing the one man employment unit (one man in a boat) is, unlike conditions in other industries, by no means a rarity, are all factors that lead outsiders, who content themselves with surface impressions instead of detailed study and thoughtful analysis, to the most absurd and contradictory answers to the very first question
— that of defining the fundamental features of the economic status of the fisherman.
"The fisherman is primarily a business man" — how often have we heard that nonsense parading as profound thought.
"Not at all" another equally shallow scholar will declare, "the fisherman is fundamentally a farmer, harvesting the sea instead of the land."
To add to the variety of answers encountered this might be the place to record that in a discussion I had in Ottawa it was suggested to me that the man who engages himself to work as a fisherman in order to make a living should be defined as "a sportsman." If he
Canadian Scientists Seek Good Fish Flour
Scientists at the Halifax Technological Station of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada are involved in a program to produce a high quality fish flour for possible submission to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. An outline of this program was given to the Board's recent annual meeting in Ottawa. *
The FAO is seeking the best pos- new. It started as a post-war effort sible quality fish flour, one that
will pass the rigid specifications both of Canada and the United States.
As a result of the interest shown by FAO, the Board's scientists have revitalised the original fish flour project which produced an excellent quality product from cod and haddock scraps. The new program calls for flour made from cod fillets. Already this has been produced experimentally and is of the highest standard yet achieved.
Production of this flour from fillets now has top priority in this field of research. If the product is acceptable—and there is reason to believe it will be—then it rests with private industry to produce in quantity the flour required by FAO for distribution to protein-hungry nations.
When the current project is completed, the scientists will again turn their attention to production of flour from such less desirable fish as herring and alewives. Already a start has been made on experiments with fish from the abundant stocks of herring and alewives.
Development of fish flour is not
by FAO and was undertaken by many of the world's leading fisheries research laboratories, including the Halifax station. The program was prompted by a desire to supply under - developed nations with a cheap supply of animal protein.
There was another reason, too, for emphasis on the work in countries in this hemisphere. Dietetic studies in Canada and the United States showed a need for additional proteins in some diets, especially for people engaged in heavy manual work, post-operative patients and elderly people. One of the simplest uses of the product would be as an additive to bread, cereals and other foodstuffs where protein supplementation could be advantageous.
For all practical purposes the flour is tasteless and colorless and the new product being made from cod fillets has the advantage of being more refined than the old. It is roughly 90 percent protein and is of high nutritive value. Nutritional assays are now being conducted by the National Research Council and the department of national health and welfare.
faiis to make a living he is an amateur, if he succeeds, a pro.
Truly as stated in the UFAWU brief, "when the eyes are closed or bandaged even an elephant may be hard to recognise."
It might seem to some that a debate about the definition of economic relationships in the fishing industry is out of place in connection with the problem confronting the committee of enquiry. Unfortunately this is not the case.
Already in July, 1960, the Unemployment Insurance Advisory Committee, established to report annu-aly to the government on the position of the Fund, recommended that "assistance to unemployed fishermen should not be financed through the UI Act" and sought to justify its recommendation on the grounds that "in the large majority of cases there is no contract of service." A similar position was expressed before the inquiry by various spokesmen of employer organisations who criticised the federal government for broadening coverage under the Act to fishermen.
I found it rather amazing that a representative of the logging employers should tell the committee that the fishermen should not come under the Unemployment Insurance Act on the grounds that "what they need is crop insurance not unemployment insurance." It struck me as being as ridiculous as a comparable claim would be that "loggers working in the woods need fire and weather insurance not Unemployment Insurance Act coverage."
In addition to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union, the only other organisation from the fishing industry to appear before the inquiry was the Fisheries Council of Canada representing its various affiliates from the Atlantic to the Pacific who contribute to the Unemployment Insurance Fund as employers of fishermen.
In BC, the Fisheries Association, the Prince Rupert Wholesale Fish Dealers' Association and the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Cooperative Association are affiliated.
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BARBOUR'S NYLON SALMON GILL NETS - DOUBLE KNOT Weight per lbs.
4 Nets #93 Twine 8V2" Mesh 50 M.D. 450 Fathoms Light Green 593 lbs. 2.37
10 " #93 8V2" a 45 " 450 White 1,328 lbs. 2.18
1 " 1 #93 8V2" a 40 " 450 White 105 lbs. 2.18
4 " #83 8V4" a 50 " 450 White 528 lbs. 2.18
9 " #73 a 8V4" a 40 " 450 White 1,225 lbs. 2.20
1 " #63 a 6V4" a 60 " 400 Med. Green 113 lbs. 2.45
1 " #63 a 6V4" a 60 " 430 Med. Green 127 lbs. 2.45
4 " #63 a 6V4" a 60 " 500 " Med. Green 583 lbs. 2.45
1 " #53 7V2" a 60 " 300 " White 61 lbs. 2.40
1 " #53 5V4" a 60 " 550 " Med. Green 140 lbs. 2.55
10 " #53 sw a 60 " 500 // Med. Green 1,188 lbs. 2.55
3 " #43 a 5W a 60 " 500 // Light Green 285 lbs. 2.70
9 " #43 a SW 11 60 " 500 // White 824V2 lbs. 2.50
32 " #33 a 5V2" a 60 " 600 // White 2,648 lbs. 2.55
15 " #33 a 5%" 11 60 " 600 // White 1,200 lbs. 2.55
33 " #33 a 5W a 60 " 600 // White 2,722 lbs. 2.55
1 " #27 a 5%" 11 60 " 600 // White 74 lbs. 2.95
6 " #27 a 5V2" 60 " 600 // White 458 lbs. 2.95
KNOX NYLON SALMON GILL NETS - - DOUBLE KNOT
2 Nets #53 Twine 6%" Mesh 60 M.D. 500 Fathoms
Selvaged with #73 Nyl on Twine White 226 lbs. 2.40
2 Nets #63 Twine 6V2" Mesh 60 M.D. 500 Fathoms
Selvaged with #83 Nyl on Twine Med. Green 264 lbs. 2.45
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