Three new ports planned
Peru develops fisheries
HAVANA — Peru plans to build three new fishing ports — at Chimbote on the northern coast, where construction work already has begun, Pisco on the central coast, and Tacna in the south near the Chilean border.
This was reported by General Javier Tantalean, minister of fishing, during his recent visit to Cuba at the head of a Peruvian delegation.
"We've already begun construction of a large fishing complex in the northern part of our country, which we believe will be the world's largest fishing port handling seafood for human consumption," Tantalean told interviewers at Havana.
"It's quite possible that we may build this with the cooperation of the Soviet Union, with which we've already signed a preliminary agreement. We've been discussing the details of a contract since July and we expect that everything will be settled soon.
"We've started the project on our own, but we expect the active participation of the Soviet Union to begin in October or November at the latest." MANY PROJECTS
In pursuit of its goal of "an economy entirely sustained by its income from the sea," Tantalean said, the government is creating an infrastructure for the fishing industry.
"We've set up a public enterprise of fishing services, which is re-
GENERAL TANTALEAN . . . new fisheries, new fleets and new fishing ports.
sponsible for creating this infrastructure," he reported.
"We're building refrigerated warehouses so that the people of the Sierra can eat fish, which they have never had before.
"We're building packing plants and fishing terminals all along the coast. We already have a couple in operation and we expect to have six more by the end of the year.
"We're also increasing our fishing fleet. We're developing a tuna fleet as well as vessels to fish other species that abound in our waters."
Fifth buy-back sale offering 50 vessels
About 50 fishing vessels will be offered for sale at Ladner on October 28 in the fifth public auction held under the federal buy-back program funded by B.C. fishermen.
Like the previous sales, this month's auction will be held at Wes-Del Marina, 3473 West River Road, Delta, beginning at 11 a.m.
Vessels going under the auctioneer's hammer will be open for inspection between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily for a week before the sale.
Last week, federal environment minister Jack Davis, stung by criticism that previous buy-back sales have been providing U.S. fishermen with boats at bargain basement prices, said that "only" 116 of the 229 vessels already auctioned under the scheme have gone to the U.S.
The U.S. Congress recently took steps to ban the importing of
former B.C. boats for use in American commercial fisheries.
Davis said last week that less than half the boats sold to the U.S. could qualify to fish commercially in that country under terms of the Jones Act, which prohibits the commercial use of foreign-built vessels over five net tons.
However, the UFAWU has drawn attention in the past to reports that this provision can be, and is being, circumvented in some instances where relatively small structural alterations can substantially alter a vessel's tonnage.
This year's UFAWU convention condemned the Fisheries Service for allowing the sales to take place, pointing to the anomaly of allowing boats purchased under the buy-back program with money raised by inflated fishermen's licence fees to end up fishing for U.S. owners, exploiting runs of B.C. salmon in direct competition with the Canadian fleet.
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Questioned about the crisis which led to the recent suspension of anchovy fishing, Tantalean was optimistic about the future of the fishery despite the immediate poor outlook.
"The last fishing operation took place in August," he said, "and since the return to normal climatic conditions is quite slow, it's impossible for me to say when fishing will resume.
"But we are behind in meeting our commitments to deliver 400,000 tons of fish meal."
Tantalean pointed out that the state operated marketing agency for fish meal established some two years ago had shown "fairly good results" and "even though fishing for meal production is now experiencing a crisis because of a series of climatic changes," the outlook for the Peruvian fishing industry was favorable.
"I believe that, within a short time, Peru's economy will be entirely sustained by its income from the sea," he declared.
Cuba, according to Tantalean, is Peru's best customer for fish meal, "for with only eight million people, she buys more than 100,000 tons from us every year — a per capita figure not reached by any other country in the world."
FAO parley set for B.C.
Fishery management and development will be the subject of a major international technical "conference now being organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and scheduled to be held in Vancouver February 12-23 next year. The conference will be open to all interested members of the fishing industry.
To be held in Vancouver at the invitation of the federal government, the conference is expected to attract papers by leading authorities in marine and freshwater fisheries from all over the world.
According to the FAO announcement of the conference, biologists and other scientists will be joined in the discussions by economists, engineers, administrators and others responsible for the management and development of fisheries.
Areas of activity included in the five sessions of the provisional program include fishery science and the methodology of the management of resources; economics and institutional aspects; and technology of fisheries, including vessels and gear, processing, utilization and marketing.
'Chimo 1' sequel
Company ends talks, unloads scab fish
Scab caught black cod from the Chimo I was unloaded at North Delta last week and taken by truck to a local cold storage only hours after Chimo Fishing Company had broken off talks with the UFAWU and renewed legal efforts to obtain injunctions against the union and its members.
The Chimo I tied up in the Fraser River in late September near the River Road premises shared by Chimo Fishing and two associated non-union firms, Watts Marine and Craven Construction.
Part of the load on board the vessel was trucked to a cold storage in Langley on or about October 2.
A few days later the remainder of the black cod on the vessel was loaded on a refrigerated trailer truck. Subsequently, the truck picked up the fish delivered to Langley earlier and then took the combined load to an undisclosed destination somewhere in the lower mainland.
The scab crewed vessel, from which the UFAWU skipper and crew were fired without notice on June 25, was still tied up at North Delta late this week.
Chimo Fishing is still understood to be encountering difficulties in finding buyers for its catches. Nevertheless, company spokesmen, who sought an injunction last month on the grounds they were, as their lawyer put it, "at the end of our tether," have indicated they intend to continue their present form of operation.
In the most recent attempt to reach a negotiated settlement, a UFAWU committee held two meetings late last month with company secretary Ernie Alton.
Progress reportedly was made toward reaching agreement along the lines of a trapfishing contract worked out earlier last month be-
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Hopes for a settlement of the dispute, however, were dashed when Alton phoned the union October 2 to announce that the company, headed by U.S. citizens Leon and Gordon Watts, had decided that any settlement must hinge on the former Chimo I fishermen agreeing to drop damage suits against the company.
(Skipper Wayne Patterson and five crew members initiated a Supreme Court action against the company on June 30, alleging breach of contract resulting in substantial loss of earnings.)
In the talks with Alton last month, the union committee took the position that any settlement should incorporate a provision giving the former Chimo I fishermen adequate compensation for their loss of employment and earnings. This the company rejected.
It was learned later that even while Alton was sitting down to talk with the UFAWU, company lawyers were launching an appeal against the recent dismissal of Chimo Fishing's application for an injunction against the UFAWU, officers and members of the union and The Fishermen Publishing Society.
The application was dismissed with costs in B.C. Supreme Court on September 11. The company's latest move means the case will now go to the B.C. Court of Appeal. No date has been set for a hearing.
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