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THE FISHERMAN
September 20, 1955
TO SEPTEMBER 10
Salmon Pack Report
Current Comparison with packs of previous years Season as at dates indicated
Sept. 10 Sept. 11 Sept. 12 Sept. 13 Sept. 8 Sept. 9 1955 195* 1953 1952 1951 1950
35 8,038
8,943 11,659
9 1,823
3,727 3,264
1 120
5,266 12,855 178
5,733 7,938
307 3,018
156 7,363
SOCKEYE
Total to date 239,434 608,832 507,555 448,398 408,998 400,045 Increase over
previous week 6,232 72,912 1,893 SPRINGS
Total to date 15,532 8,530 10,946 increase over
previous week 1,117 831 686 STEELHEADS
Total to date 1,450 2,817 . 2,534 increase over
previous week 70 79 70 BLUEBACKS
Total to date 10,013 4,138 2,044 increase over
previous week 184 131 COHOE
Total to date 138,969 84,989 90,344 55,589 207,172 74,182
increase over
previous week 25,882 12,237 9,298 688 25,515 9,614 PINKS
Total to date 756,85^5 327,625 736,624 673,822 619,794 438,860 Increase over
previous week 96,816 9,986 123,780 652 83,028 15,711 CHUMS
Total to date 67,625 214,811 219,897 62,339 229,512 200,519
Increase over
previous week 11,062 33,125 25,738 TOTALS ALL SPECIES
Totals to date 1229,878 1251,742 1569,944 1258,084 1493,254 1131,925 Increaas? ov^r
previous week 141,363 129,301 161,555 1,965 136,106 64,795
(i > Salmon strike September 6 - October 20, 1952.
580 17,404 33,274
U.S. Periodicals Intimate:
North Pacific Treaty Not So Wonderful
It is apparent that Americans are beginning to doubt the wisdom of the International North Pacific Fisheries treaty, if reports appearing recently in United States fishing periodicals provide a criterion
we reported that The Fishermen's News of Seattle had stated in an article this month that "There was little doubt in the minds of U.S. fishermen as to what was happening as the Japanese announced a probable catch of 65,-000,000 salmon for the 1955 season while the Alaska fleet took it on the chin with the poorest season of the 20th century.
"The big debates as to whether the Japanese were fishing Asiatic or U.S. salmon was a subject open to even closer scrutiny."
In the September issue of the Miller Freeman publication Pacific Fisherman, similar sentiments were expressed in a story headed "Great Mid-Ocean Catch Generates Bitterness."
The article stated:
"Bitter reaction is manifest among Alaska fishermen and operators at the poor results of their 1955 activities at a time when preliminary reports from the Japanese fleet fishing high seas waters along the Aleutians and westward thereof indicate extraordinary catches, perhaps on the order of 60 million fish.
"While direct evidence is lacking as to the proportion of the
New Electronic Device on B.C. Troller
Something new in the way of electronic devices has been installed by Bill Rideout on his troller "Missidor" and according to Bill, it has proven very successful.
It is- an improvement on an already established piece of equipment now found on many vessels and goes under the name "Automatic Direction Finder" or simply ADF.
Compact and simple to operate, the ADF is unique in that it requires no searching around for a "fix" (sounds like we're talking about dope traffic); the ADF seeks out the "null" and transmits it automatically. The operator gets continuous bearings, stations and ships and the bearings are read on a simple 360 degree indicator.
The AFD differs from the manually-operated one essentially only in its ability to "sight" auto-
matically and without human effort or special skills and experience. It is not necessary to swing a loop manually, or listen or watch for an elusive null to get bearings, or watch a clock to avoid missing a radio beacon broadcast. The operator leaves the set on, and as soon as the band he is tuned to goes on the air, the ADF automatically points in its direction.
Up to this time, it is understood that the only ADF sold in B.C. is manufactured by Lear, Inc., Santa Monica, California, and is distributed by Harry Eyer's Sounder Sales and Service of Vancouver.
The California firm has brought out the revolutionary "Lear ADFM-12," which is an outgrowth of many thousands of similar sets built by them for the U.S. government and private airlines. The Lear unit consists of a tuner,
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radio amplifier, loop antenna system and an indicator. The audio output can be connected to headphones, but more preferably to a standard loudspeaker. Lear supplies two types of bearing indicators—one with a fixed azimuth circle marked in 360 degrees and the other with a rotat-able azimuth that permits setting the azimuth to the same compass course as is being steered.
Tuna fishermen in California have found the ADF invaluable in their work. If they want to find fish, they merely tune the unit to the ship-to-shore or ship-to-ship frequencies, listen to the conversations of other vessels, and the pointer on the indicator swings from one to the other as they talk. With the ADF they can "home" on a boat that is in good fishing area, and all the secret codes and deceptive state" ments the other boats use can not fool the instrument. The pointer automatically swings to the boat which is transmitting, and you have him pinpointed.
The Lear set has three fre-. quency bands— 190-430 kc; 500-1150 kc; 1150-2850 kc—making it also a marine and aircraft weather broadcast receiver, a marine ship-to-ship communications receiver, and a regular commercial radio broadcast receiver.
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ocean catch native to Alaska streams, fishermen believe that the drain of this ocean fishery is responsible to a large ■ degree for the disappointing catches of Red and Pink salmon in Alaska.
"These men are highly vocal and with the American section of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission due to meet in Juneau September 3, and with its advisory board September 5-7, it is entirely to be expected that it will receive some vigorous representations touching this matter.
"Data secured this season by the initial research investigations sponsored by the American section of the International North Pacific commission will be scrutinised very closely for any evidence they may provide as to the proportion of salmon of Am-
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CONSERVATION ?
We must conserve our fish, Boys, The Sockeye, Chum and Pink, They've got to get to spawning
grounds— 'Cause it's later than you think!
We've been conserving fish, Boys, Since 'way back in '46. If we didn't let them spa\yn, . Boys,
We'd sure be in a fix.
We've been conserving for years, Boys,
The "Yanks" could tell you too. They reap a dandy harvest When the Sockeye and Pink come through.
'Pears we've been conserving For others on the sea, We've conserved so many years, Now there's none for you or me.
Makes me wonder where we're
going, Boys, I guess you wonder too, 'Cause the fishing hasn't started, Now it looks like we're all thru'.
WINJO
erican origin found in the populations inhabiting the mid-ocean areas where present fishing is concentrated.
"While it is true that the North Pacific Fisheries Treaty establishes a new basis by which the United States, Canada and Japan engage to collaborate in international conservation of the North Pacific fisheries in which they engage, under the obligation of abstention from those which are protected, scientifically studied and fully developed, alarmed Americans hold that nothing in the treaty abrogates the Truman Doctrine enunciated in 1945, and that it still stands as the official policy of the Department of State, and could be applied it need be to protect an American resource from destruction."
This, of course, is a much different story than than which has been expressed up to now by these American sources.
C.R. Fishermen Ask More Floats
CAMPBELL RIVER: Campbell River fishermen have voted to ask the federal government for installation of additional floats for fishing boats, according to a report in Sunday's Victoria Colonist.
Fishermen say the government should install the new floats immediately as an emergency measure.
Present wharfage is too small for the rapidly-growing town and the fire hazard is extreme, fishermen say, because of congestion of seiners, trollers, gill-netters and small boats behind the breakwater.
A motion asking for federal government action was passed at a meeting of fishermen members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union.
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We wish to thank you for your kind and beautiful expression of sympathy extended to us in our bereavement.
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