Alaskan Reports Europe Flooded With
Russian-Japanese Canned Alaska Crab
The nations of Europe are
flooded with Russian and Japanese
canned Alaska King Crab, accord
ing to Bob Logan, former state
senator who last week returned to
Alaska from a tour of the conti
nent.
Logan, a marine insurance en
gineer, phoned the Mirror last Fri
day, expanding on his views ex
pressed in a letter sent from Co
penhagen, Denmark.
“I feel that the matter of pro
tecting our coastal fisheries is ab
solutely vital to the Alaska fisher
men, but as the attitude of our
State Department is in complete
disregard towards protecting our
fisheries I have been working on
the theory that if foreign nations
can be encouraged to act towards
protection of their fisheries the
State Department will have to fol
low sooner or later,” Logan stated.
“I have been to a number of
grocery stores both in Great Bri
tain and on the Continent and have
noted the tremendous volume of
sales of canned King Crab meat.
None of these cans of King Crab
meat have an American label on
them. All labels are either Russian
or Japanese,” Logan said, adding,
“We all know that the Kamchatka
crab has been fished out for some
years, and the last remaining
sources of King Crab are round
the Aleutian Islands and the
Alaska mainland, also Bristol Bay
and the Bering Sea.”
‘‘After seeing the vast quantities
of King Crab sold in Europe it
rather makes you wonder where
they come from. Of course, wc
have been told by Mr. Herrington
(of the State Dept.) that the Japa
nese and Russians are only drag
ging for fish. Apparently they get
a few odd crabs in the drags also,”
he observed.
“I spent three weeks in Great
Britain where I met as many of
the Scotch and English fishery peo
ple that I could and discussed
with, and encouraged them to ex
tend their coastal limit beyond
three miles,” said Logan.
“I hope that you will publish
this as your first opportunity as I
am sure it will give our fishermen
some relief to know that other na
tions are recognizing the need to
protect the coastal fishery,” he
concluded.
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Enclosed with his letter was a
copy of the English newspaper
“The Guardian” dated March 18
reporting hopes were raised that
Britain would now agree to their
fishermen’s demands for at least
a six-mile limit. The article told
of “heavy losses to British inshore
fishermen by (foreign) trawling
through their lines.”
The article said in part, “Per
haps even worse than the losses of
equipment was the prospect that
Britain’s inshore fishing grounds
would be ruined by foreign
“scorched earth” methods of trawl
from sea bed to surface with fine
mesh nets."
Kodiak Airways
Asks CAB Permit
Combined Route
Authority to combine parts of
two of its routes to provide better
service for the Alaska canning in
dustry on Kodiak Island has been
requested by Kodiak Airways.
The airlines Kodiak-Zachar Bay
and Kodiak-Port Williams routes
are involved.
The company has proposed a cir
cular service, operated in both di
rections between Kodiak, Ouzinkie,
Port Wakefield, Port Bailey, San
Juan and back to Kodiak. Each
routing would include stops at
Afognak and Terror Bay on request
or when traffic was waiting.
According to the news report the
Port Bailey, San Juan and Ouzin
kie canneries will be operated uiv
der coordinated management this
summer and will require rapid and
frequent service to Kodiak.
Luana Garoutte
Awarded Honors
Luana Jean Garoutte, senior at
Kodiak High, was one of the three
girls in Alaska who received hon
orable mention in the 1963 Betty
Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow
competition.
Luana, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Garoutte, ranked in the
top five among 519 senior girls in
20 high schools who competed in
the annual homemaking education
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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor and Staff:
Shakespeare said of newspapers:
“They are the abstract and brief
chronicles of the time, to show vir
tue her own image; scorn her own
features; and the very age and
bodys. of the time, his form and
pressure.”
When you took over our weekly
gazette I too noticed a change in
the attitude of the town. The once
passive city was finally being
awakened to see the true image of
the monster, apathy! Before there
was an appalling apathy toward
what happened in many corners of
the city. The lack of civic interest
was unbelievable! An isolated is
land lies on the Bering Sea with a
population of about 300 people who
fight for what they think is right;
so to find a city with a population
of over 3000 not caring one iota
about who ran their government,
and what happened to friends, rel
atives and even their children was
indeed appalling. I still shudder
to think especially of some chil
dren of Kodiak whose lives may be
permanently ruined because of this
apathy. Two of them were sent
away like criminals. I knew one of
them personally and I liked the
boy. It did not take me long to see
that this boy needed help. I talked
with him very seriously about the
importance of obeying rules and
regulations. In my presence he was
a gentleman. He desperately
wanted to show me that he was not
all bad, and I tried to show him
that I knew that there was a lot of
good in him. Then I did not see
him for quite a while, so I asked
his brother one day fearing the
worst. The brother said, “He is in
jail in Anchorage, and that is
where he belongs.”
This brother used to beat my lit
tle friend so when I heard him
utter these words I had to control
myself for he was one reason why
his brother was in jail. I thought
of making a move to help my
friend, but I felt helpless in a city
where one could not find one qual
ified person who had the intelli
gence and the power to help this
boy. He is now on a farm and I
do hope he will find happiness
there. I must get in touch with him
soon. I had the privilege to know
personally prominent people in
various fields pertaining to the
welfare and happiness of children.
Through these contacts I learned
that a ‘bad’ child is an unhappy
child. With the right kind of guid
ance, with love and understanding,
the most undisciplined child can
be taught to become a good future
citizen. On the whole, considering
the very recent apathy to the wel
fare of the children of this city,
I believe we have here a bunch of
wonderful children.
Here is hoping the city will con
tinue to change its attitude and
awaken to the fact that silence can
Hair Seal Price
Hits High Of $53
The Department of Fish and
Game has been advised that prop
erly prepared raw skins of harbo'*
seals may be sold for as much as
$20 each. H. G. Hanson, P. O. Box
7, New Westminster, British Co
lumbia, Canada, is buying skins
for the European market and is
desirous of establishing contact
with Alaskan seal hunters. Inter
ested persons may contact Mr. Han
sen by mail at the above address
for specific information on prices
and preparation and shipping of
skins.
Jm Brooks, Director of the Di
vision of Game, reports that har
bor seal skins are widely being rec
ognized as a fashionable material
for sports type clothing. Single
skins of unusually fine quality re
cently brought as much as $53
apiece in Canadian sales. Brooks
stated further that several thou
sand seals are taken each year for
bounty in Alaska, and he suggests
many hunters may profit greatly
by this new commercial interest
in harbor seal skins.
be crippling toward building a
sound and healthy community.
In closing I give you these words
of Bacon: “He that will not apply
new remedies must expect new
evils.”
Sincerely,
Mrs. Joseph A. Lekanoff
Contribute Poems
jerilyn and Norman Smith,
daughter and son of the Rev. and
Mrs. Norman Smith, former resi
dents of Ouzinkie, and James An
derson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Anderson, Box 1003, Kodiak, are
among those who took part in the
publication of the Linfield Col
lege “Attic," literary publication.
Miss Smith, a sophomore con
tributed two poems, while hei
brother was associate editor. ,
Anderson, a junior, contributed
three poems.
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