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ance. It is probably because bas
ically Louis Wick regards himself
as a bottom-fish fisherman really,
and he puts a lot of stock in the
theory that the King Crab is a
deadly enemy to bottom fish and
most commercial sea life in gen
eral.
And he has had an occasion re
cently to hear this theory ex
pounded and buttressed. He tells
of the occasion where an Ameri
can crab boat tied up alongside
a Japanese crab boat off Kalgin
Island, and the crews were able
to exchange “shop-talk.”
The Japanese apparently hold
the theory that King Crab, with
it’s vast schools of from 100,000
to 500,000 voracious appetites,
consumes virtually every edible
thing in their migrating path,
partcularly the spawn of other
fish such as halibut and codfish.
According to the Japanese, who
claim to have been fishing King
Crab for almost 300 years, the
Kng Crab migrates because it vir
tually eats out or "overgrazes” the
area it happens to be in and to
survive must migrate. And fol
lowing their theory or claims, the
King Crab has steadily migrated
northward up along the coast of
China and Asia, which is where
the Japanese used to fish for them
about 100 years ago, and now they
are migrating eastward across the
North Pacific. According to their
theory, the King Crab wll even
tually migrate down the North
American coast of the Pacific, al
ways ever in search of food. This
explains the mysterious disap
pearance of the once abundant
codfish in the Aleutian waters,
and more recently, in Kodiak wa
ters. This would also explain for
them the reported moving of hali
but into deeper waters of the
North Pacific.
According to the Japanese, it
takes many years for an area
scrounged-out by King Crab to re
cover it’s normal varieties of other
fish in commercial quantites.
And this theory helps explain
why the Japanese see little sense
to conservation attempts on behalf
of the King Crab-why they
take females and crabs of any
size and use highly efficient meth
ods and gear denied by law to
American King Crab fishermen.
The Japanese give the impression
that they fish Kng Crab because
of it’s lucrative return on world
markets and not for their own
consumption. According to the
Japanese, the King Crab cannot
be realistically conserved because
it will migrate eventually anyway,
and besides, it would be best to
eliminate as many of them as pos
sible when they do appear in
fishable waters.
At any rate, this seems to De
the Japanese point of view, or at
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least one which some of their fish
ermen told some of our fishermen
recently.. .and Louis Wick toid
us.
Louis first came to Kodiak '.n
1916 in quest of halibut.
“It was just a few houses in
those days. I certainly never ex
pected Kodiak to be like this in
my time. Nor would I have ever
believed that I would be fishing
year-round in these waters," he
said as he looked out over the
town and then turned his atten
tion back to the small boat har
bor, adding pensively, "It’s too
bad they didn’t think to make the
boat harbor bigger.”
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