• Two specimens of this rare fish, the Boarfish or Pelagic Armored Head which normally is found only off New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope, are on display in Vancouver Public Aquarium. They were taken by Alex Dickson and Bert Eckstein of the Canadian weathership Quadra while they were fishing for salmon 900 miles due west of Vancouver. Chief oceanographer C. DeJong kept them alive for three weeks until the Quadra returned to port.
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Evidence found insufficient
Court dismisses licence charges in 'Chimo 1' case
Licensing charges against skipper Ernie Alton and a crewman of the fishing vessel Chimo I were dismissed in provincial court at Port Hardy on September 22.
Alton and the crewman, identified as Allan Henry Parnell, pleaded not guilty to a charge of leaving port to engage in a commercial fishing operation without possessing a valid personal fishing licence.
According to a Fisheries Service spokesman, the dismissal was ordered by the court on the grounds that it had not been proven the Chimo I was engaged in a commercial operation at the time of and immediately prior to the alleged infraction.
The charges were laid after a Fisheries Service check on the Chimo I at Winter Harbor June 29 revealed the vessel did not have a valid licence and that several persons taken aboard as replacements for six UFAWU fishermen fired a few days earlier were also not in possession of licences.
In July, a third member of the scab vessel's crew was fined $30 for not having a valid personal licence. But the case against Alton and Parnell, who denied the charge, was postponed until September 22.
In the meantime, the Chimo I was able to continue operating without interruption with the cooperation of Fisheries Service senior officials in Vancouver who went out of their way to see that licences were issued without delay to the boat and to those on board.
Subsequently, in a letter to federal environment minister Jack Davis, the UFAWU held that this "pandering" to the Chimo I owners was in marked contrast to "countless numbers of cases where Canadian fishermen found in violation of laws have been called in off the grounds and forced into court to face charges."
ACTION CONTRASTED
In a recent case, the seiner Adriatic Star was ordered in to Alert Bay in late September while fishing Johnstone Strait after a Fisheries Service officer found two new crew members did not have valid personal fishing licences.
Unlike the Chimo I, the Adriatic Star lost valuable fishing time before the licences were issued and she was able to return to the grounds. On October 5, fines of $25 were imposed by an Alert Bay court against the crewmen involved.
In the Chimo I case, a Fisheries Service spokesman said this week, Alton and Parnell took the position
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in court that they had not been engaged in fishing commercially between the time they left Port Hardy on or about July 27 and the time of the Fisheries Service check at Winter Harbor about two days later. During that period the vessel had been engaged only in locating the position of its traps, they said.
The spokesman said he did not know whether it had been argued in court that locating traps is an integral part of a commercial fishing venture. But in any case, he said, the presiding judge found the evidence presented to be insufficient for conviction, and dismissed the charges.
Whenever the UFAWU has been fighting it out with the federal government over bargaining rights for all fishermen under the Canada Labor Code, retention of full unemployment insurance coverage, or against closure of harbor facilities by the Fraser River Harbor Commission, our delegates have found that only the New Democratic members of parliament consistently go to bat for us.
Barry Mather, Mark Rose and Frank Howard are a tremendous help in Ottawa.
More NEW DEMOCRATS like Stuart Leggatt and Ken Nova-kowski will ensure stronger representation for working people.
HOMER STEVENS . President, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union.
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THE FISHERMAN — OCTOBER 13, 1972/7