Tuesday, November 7, 1950
THE FISHERMAN
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By REG DIXON
DUZ -does everything, although they tell me that almost any of the new soap powders will work. Maybe it's the new detergent we hear so much about that makes Duz so highly recommended.
The way it works is this: Suppose a bunch of salmon a:e goinef up a creek to spawn (a few still do get that far). Now suppose that on their way up that creek, they suddenly find the water full of soap powdj|\ What do the salmon do? Well, "ra told on good authority that they go wild and head for the ocean, threshing madly; and suppose that a net should be strung across the creek mouth? Maybe I'm giving away trade secrets- maybe I'm putting ideas into people's heads. But while on the subject I would say that soap powders are now considered as much better than bluestone. The soap, maybe it's the detergent in it, actually seems to cut the slime on the black fish, while bluestone, after all, is poisonous.
Good Market For Norway Fish
The president of the Norwegian Dry Fish Exporters' Association predicts the 1950 export of dried fish will approximate 15,000 metric tons as compared to an average of some 8,000 tons during each of the prior postwar years. He reports that demand on the world market for dried fish is increasing. However, the 1950 Norwegian experts will fall far short of the prewar average of 25,000 to 28,000 tons per year.
CANNED FISH: A report from canning industry i dated August 24, 1950) states that although a reasonable amount of brisling was caught during August in the Har-danger district (Fjord area immediately south of Bergen), which was previously closed to fishing for biological reasons, the 1950 season has been very disappointing.
A number of canneries normally occupied at this time of the year in canning brisling are now caning fruit in order to give their workers employment pending the start of fall fish-canning operations.
The canning industry also reports that export demand for all types of canned fish products is good and a considerable amount of reserve stocks have been sold.
SEALING: The 1950 sealing season resulted in a catch of approximately 255,000 seals. Of the total catch, some 70,000 were taken off Newfoundland.
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1 w.as talking with one seine boat skipper and he outlined his season to me — from one creek to the next, his successes and failures with eluding, outsmarting, or trying to bribe the fish-wardens. He told me of his (quote) "life's ambition," that before he died, he would take the cohoe inside one particularly well-guarded limit. I told him that if a fisherman couldn't make a living honestly, well, he'd better go back farming while he was still in good enough shape to push a plough.
I was superior and high falutin, and told him things I'd heard at Union conventions about conservation and Union decisions. I flatter myself I made him feel sort of sheepish and a bit- of an outcast. "It's hard," he said, "on a small boat these days with three or four hundred fathom nets to compete with." I told him that, too, could be settled by the Union.
A few days later I read of two boats, with 1950 plates on them no doubt; two of the biggest boats in the fleet, who were only fishing salmon anyway until the more profitable herring season opens, fined for fishing inside the limits. It was my turn to feel sheepish.
I guess I'm sort of naive about these things, but having travelled all up and down the Coast and talked to old-timers in the game, I've heard the dismal repetition "Yeah, that used to be a good cohoe creek"—"Used to be full of humpies." I've talked with the small trollers who all say, "Inside trolling's finished." One of them said towards the end of his season, "Got $2.50 in my pocket and my gas tank's empty; I'm headed home."
Makes you wonder, though, what the answer is. Trollers are a bit self-righteous; the white-haired beys among a bunch of crooks. The gillnotters are mostly silent; a bit ominously so. The seiners, maybe, talk too much.
The answer? Someone suggested the department drive piles across the mouth of every creek or sink cement blocks in the shallows. A fish-warden says, "I don't blame the boys—no warden can watch two places. Until we have a patrolman in every bay, things will just go from bad to worse."
For myself, I think that while there is |SO much gear in the water, competition is too fierce, the temptation too great, and while I agree that a $500 fine among a crew of seven or eight is nothing but an invitation to try it again. I feel that some form of limitation of licenses, with disqualification for poaching, should be an objective.
Meanwhile, I am writing an epitaph on a once great industry. I feel I haven't got much time, but I can't find anything to rhyme with "Duz" nor yet with "Bastards."
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The aim of British Columbia's fishing industry is |
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caught from the clear, cold water of the Pacific Ocean. |
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SE Asia Fish Supply Below Peoples' Needs
The amount of fish protein food available to the people erf Southeast Asia averages only about a third of what they should be eating daily. This estimate was reported to delegates attending the second meeting, of. the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council, held earlier this year.
The council, sponsored
First Eight Months See High US Meal, Oil Output
Fish oils, exclusive of liver oils, produced in the United j States and Alaska during August. 1950. amounted to 3,858,008 gallons, compared with 2,547,671 gallons during August 1949.! The gain was due mainly to an increase in the production j of Menhaden oil of 512,325 gallons as with the corresponding
period of 1949. ,---
Herring oil production in Maine. Production of fish meal during: during August increased 278 per- i August by firms that normally pro-cent over the previous year. Oil j duce about 90 percent of the total produced from herring in Alaska yield amounted to 35,827 tons — during August, 1950 increased 278,_ an increase of 21 percent, compared
149 gallons, compared with August of last year.
During the first eight months of 1950, 10,885,260 gallons of oil were processed — an increase of 42 percent over the previous year.
with the same month in 1949.
During the first eight months of 1950, the quantity of meal processed totaled 125,718 tons, compared with 121,113 tons during the corresponding period of 1949.
Imports of fish meal for feed and fertilizer for July 1950 totaled 4,784 tons, imports for July 1949 amount to 1,900 tons. The first 7 months of 1950, fish meal imports amounted to 42,129 tons, compared with 32,778 tons during the same period in 1949; an increase of 29 percent.
Britain Plans US Kipper Sale
Plans of a sales campaign to sell Scottish kippers in the United States and Canada are completed, according to the Fish Trades Gazette, a British fishery periodical.
The kippers will be cellophane-wrapped in pairs, deep-frozen, and shipped to American and Canadian cold-storage warehouses at strategic sales points. Sales will be made from September through May by a London merchant bank through its American trading company, who in turn will sell directly to food and fish brokers.
The first year's export sales target is 80,000 cases (44 kippers to a case). Sales will open in test areas. The campaign will not be confined just to hotels, restaurants, and the ' fact, in the southern area, the en catering trade, but will also aim to tering two-year fish were almost promote and sell kippers as a home completely absojnt. This scarcity product. Newspaper, radio, possibly i of young fish in both areas points
Alaska H erring Outlook Gloomy
Reading of the scales collected from the Alaska herring fishery during the past season has shown that older fish are dominating the catch in both Prince William Sound and southeastern areas, according to the fish and wildlife service.
In both areas, the six-year-old class was most abundant with the two, three, and four-year olds contributing much lesser amounts. In
by the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, met at Cro-nulla, Australia, site of the Commonwealth Marine Biological Laboratory.
Reporting the results of a survey, one delegate said that the average commercial landings of marine fish in Southeast Asia provided about 25 grams of fish protein daily for each person. Other sources, including fresh-water fish farming, helped to bring average consumption up to an estimated 42 grams per day. This is about a third of the 125 grams of fish protein per day suggested "as the ideal.
The report stressed the importance of the Indo-Pacific Council's objective, which is to improve the fishing industries of the region in such a way that the catch may be increased in size and quality and the living conditions of the people engaged in fishing way be bettered
It was pointed out that countries which are members of the Council contain a large part of the world's population, and that feeding these people is a matter of great urgency. The fact that so many of these people depend upon fish, rather than meat, for their animal protein supply, accentuates importance of the role which the fishing industry plays.
Fish production in the area, though inadequate in relation to the large number of people, is nevertheless large. Production is achieved by what Dr. G. L. Kes-teven, Council Secretary, has described as an "amazing diversity" of boats and types of fishing gear.
After it is landed, the catch is dealt with in a wide variety of ways, from the sale of live fish to the conversion of fish into a clear, almost odorless, protein-rich fish sauce. These methods, Dr. Kestev-en says, involve considerable ingenuity and skill, and much can be learned from a study of them. But there is no doubt that the fishing industries of the region could be expanded by the introduction of new methods and equipment, which can generally be described as "mechanization."
At the same time, such developments can be guided and assisted
by the collection and assembling of scientific information concerning the resources. It is the function of the Indo-Pacific Council to assist in this general program of development.
Among the practical results emerging from the second meeting of the Council was the establishment of a subcommittee (of the technical committee on biology and hydrology) to study the tuna fisheries. The tuna, which are high seas fish with a Pacific-wide distribution, have, in recent years, grown greatly in economic importance. Individual countries such as Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States of America have programs of research on the species. The tuna subcommittee is designed to correlate the work of these and other countries and to standardize scientific measures and techniques used in investigation, so that results may be comparable. This is considered to be an important advance in furthering these costly investigations.
Another of the several subcommittees established will study the fish culture of the general area, with special emphasis on the effect of transplanting species from one area to another. As fish culture grows in importance as a food source, great care must be taken to transplant species that in the long run, will not prove to be injurious to the area.
Arrangements were also made at Cronulla for the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council and the South Pacific Commission to collaborate on the fisheries programs in the Southeast Asia area.
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