Canada in Ninth Place
• In this most recent photo, the late Einar Engeseth, retired New Westminster gillnetter and UFAWU honorary member, is seen with two of his four great-grandchildren, Paul and Shelly Fieber.
UFAWU Loses Veteran Member
Einar Engeseth Fished to Age 83
When Einar Engeseth died at his New Westminster home on December 29 at the age of 84 he had completed a working life that mirrored the development of the Pacific Northwest since the early years of the century.
Fishing was his first calling. He followed it naturally in the little central Norwegian town of Volda where he was born on December 19, 1885 and grew up. There he fished for a few years with his grandfather, Meldal Engeseth. But by the time he was 21, letters from his younger brother Alfred, who had emigrated to the U.S. a year or so earlier, induced him to seek his future there too, and in 1908 he went to Washington state, settling in Tacoma.
For a time he worked in the woods. Then he headed north to the Alaska gold fields. On his return to Tacoma he met and mar-
ried his wife. Bertha. An immigrant like himself, she was cooking at the hotel at which he stayed. They came to British Columbia for their honeymoon in 1912 and here they decided to remain.
Fishing out of New Westminster Einar Engeseth became a skifT man on the Fraser and Skeena rivers. Four years later he home-steaded at Ocean Park, combining crab fishing at Boundary Bay with farming and construction work on the Great Northern Railway for 10 years to support his growing family.
BLACKLISTED IN STRIKE
A new period in his life opened in 1926 when he went to work as a millwright at Fraser Mills and closed five years later with the historic strike of 1931. He had taken an active part in the cam-
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paign to organize the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Industrial Union and when the union was smashed he found himself out of a job.
Blacklisted, he turned to fishing again for a livelihood. For the next 30 years he gillnetted on the Fraser River and at Rivers Inlet, acquiring the Volda I.
He sold that boat in 1961, intending to retire. Instead he bought the Volda 2 with which he continued to fish through the 1968 season when failing health compelled his retirement just short of his 83rd birthday.
FOUNDING MEMBER
A member of earlier unions in the industry, he entered the UFAWU as a founding member of its Port Mann Local in 1945 and remained an honorary member of its New Westminster Local at the time of his death.
Funeral services, followed by cremation, were conducted by Rev. Raymond Murrin of St. Mary's Anglican Church from S. Bowell and Sons funeral chapel on January 5.
Predeceased by his wife in 1950, Einar Engeseth is survived by one son, Barney, an IWA member. New Westminster; four daughters, Mrs. Merna Turner, Mrs. Olive Denomy, Mrs. Edna Dodd and Mrs. Mary Taylor; 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Alfred in New Westminster and Bernard in New York.
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Soviet Tonnage Half World Fishing Fleet
Although 87 countries now have trawlers and other fishing vessels larger than 100 gross tons, more than half the total number of these ships and two-thirds of the total tonnage are concentrated in the fleets of three countries — the Soviet Union, Japan and Spain, Fishing News reports from London.
Lloyd's Register of Shipping Statistical Tables for 1969 show 11,535 vessels with an aggregate tonnage just short of seven million, engaged in trawling or some other form of commercial fishing. In addition, there are 414 fish carriers and factory ships.
The Soviet Union is far ahead of all other countries in its large vessel fishing fleet.
According to Lloyd's Tables, its fleet of trawlers and other catchers totals 2,604, of which 382 are above 2,000 tons. The Soviet fleet also contains 304 carriers and factory ships, 66 of them above 10,000 tons and 80 between 4,000 and 10,000.
The Soviet larger ship fleet aggregates 3,405,148 tons, almost half the total for the 87 countries.
Japan, in second place, has 2,-067 trawlers and fishing vessels (719,097 tons I and 58 fish carriers and ships (169.374 tons!. It has 44 fishing craft over 2,000 tons, but in this category is not far ahead of Poland's 34 ships.
Spain has the third largest fleet, with 1,289 ships (398,755 tons), but only nine of these are above 2,000 tons. She also has one factory ship of 10.413 tons.
Although Britain is shown with only two ships above 2,000 tons (the Fairtry trawlers, which are now laid upt, it is in fourth place with 578 fishing vessels (240,212 tons i above 100 tons.
Canada ranks ninth with 458 vessels and an aggregate tonage of 124.134, behind France with 663 vessels (192,876 tons': Norway 623 vessels (178,156 tons); Poland 168 (176,275 tons); West Germany 215 H61,886 tons.
Behind Canada, in tenth place, is East Germany 161 vessels (107,-111 tons); Portugal 154 (105,523 tons); Italy 158 (71,617 tons); and Iceland 228 (62,310 tons).
Lloyd's Tables also show the extent to which some major fishing countries depend on smaller fishing craft. Peru — with a yearly harvest of around 10 million tons of anchoveta — is well down in the large vessel league with 294 vessels (44,643 tons) of between 100 and 500 tons.
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HALIBUT FISHERMEN'S MEMBERSHIP MEETING
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January 14
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• Election of committees
• Election of delegates to layup conference
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PENDER HARBOR LOCAL
Thursday, January 15
7:30 p.m. LEGION HALL Madeira Park
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• Convention resolutions
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TRAWL FISHERMEN'S MEMBERSHIP MEETING Friday, January 16
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THE FISHERMAN — JANUARY 9, 1970