Along
The
Waterfront
By Karl Armstrong
Brazil’s national leaders seem
to possess the guts that, so far,
our federal government shame
fully lacks when it comes to pro
tecting their fisheries. First of
all the Brazilian government has
the plain common sense to claim
the resources of their entire con
tinental shelf, which reaches as
far as 60 miles out. And when
French fishing boats began tak
ing their lobsters they seized
them and told them to get out
and stay out. When the French
government was reported to have
dispatched a fleet of warships
to protect their fishing fleet, the
Brazilians didn’t hesitate or try
to negotiate . . . they sent the
Brazilian Navy forth to protect
their lobster fishery . . . upon
which the mighty French with
drew, fishing boats, warships
and all! What a vivid contrast to
the gutlessness displayed by our
federal leaders in the North Pa
cific!
Spring can't be very far off . . .
salmon fishermen are beginning to
make sets in the B&B and lots of
fish have already been landed in
the Breakers. Down in the boat
harbor I ran into Oscar Bailey
busy making repairs to his 30-foot
seine boat Bonner which suffered
a bit of damage over on Long
Island.
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In for repairs to electronic gear
this past w'eek was the big ADF&G
boat C. L. Anderson. She is sta
tioned at Sand Point and under
the command of Skipper Kennic
Junge.
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Up on the grid the early part of
this week was Skipper Ken Kloc
kenbrink’s Mist . . . Harbormaster
A1 Fenner said they had some line
wrapped around the prop.
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Local fishermen will probably
be relieved to hear that it ap
pears unlikely that legislators
will approve a bill which would
rule out area fishing by commer
cial fishermen. Even the sponsor
of the bill was lukewarm to pas
sage of it.
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In the “Where have I heard that
before” department is the report
made by Alaska Secretary of State
Hugh J. Wade that Russia has
pledged complete cooperation in
preventing the destruction of
American king crab fishing gear
by Russian trawlers. According to
Wade, all the Russians want our
crab fishermen to do is advise
them of the type and kinds of mark
ers as well as the general location
and density of the pots. He further
suggested that the pots have some
sort of radio beacon tuned to the
radio frequency used by Russian
ships. The Russian spokesman with
whom Wade conferred while in
Tokyo said he would stop in Vladi
vostok to notify the Russian fishing
fleet of his concern. The simplest
solution, of course, would be for
the Russians to promise to keep
their fishing fleets at least 100
miles offshore from Kodiak . . .
and it will undoubtedly take the
appearance of about ten to twenty
destroyers and cruisers of the U.S.
Navy to convince them of the wis
dom of remaining off our conti
nental shelf fisheries in the North
Pacific.
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From Juneau comes word that
the state senate has approved a
resolution asking the Coast
Guard to station a cutter in Bris
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In town recently were well
known Martha and Herman Ander
son of Ouzinkie who with their
son’s own the 32 foot Fortune and
40-foot Fawn.
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At least one element of the North
Pacific fisheries appears satisfied
with the idea to give the Japanese
further entry to the . . . HALIBUT
. . . fishery! One headline in the
Anchorage Times, March 5 issue,
l eads: “Salmon Packers Back Hali
but Deal, See Harm If Treaty
Ended.” The opening paragraph of
the story sez, “The salmon industry
has gone on record in the U.S. Sen
ate as approving the recommenda
tion that Japanese fishermen be
allowed to take halibut in the east
ern Bering Sea.” One wonders just
what their stand might be if the
word “halibut” were to read “sal
mon” instead! We wonder how long
the Japanese high seas fishery of
our salmon will be allowed to con
tinue before it forces the salmon
packers to the ultimate realization
that the U.S. must embark upon a
unilateral policy regarding our
North Pacific fishery resources . . .
a policy backed up by the might
and power of our armed forces if
necessary . . . just as in the case
of the fur seal. If it is legal to
protect fur seals on the high seas
with armed gunboats it is then
legal to also protect in the same
way our salmon, king crab, shrimp,
herring and halibut wherever they
might go in the Pacific Ocean.
They each individually are worth
more than the fur seal if that’s of
any importance.
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With moderate weather the past
week all the crab canneries are
going full blast as is also the
shrimp cannery. “Regular opera
tion,” reports Alaska King Crab’s
Emil Norton, and similar reports
come from the others. According
to King Crab Inc.’s Rob Springhill
“things appear to have picked up
considerably down on the south
end the past week.” Eastpoint Sea
foods’ Office Manager Shirley Fil
lis says that all three of their
shrimpers are busy making hauls
keeping the cannery going full
blast. APA Shellfish Plant Super
intendent Ralph Jones was over to
Svvickshak Lagoon in connection
with the beginning of the razor
clam season . . . another sign that
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“spring has sprung.”
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Had an occasion recently to enjoy
french fried King Crab legs at Mr.
and Mrs. James Monroe’s home. . .
she has her own batter formula
which involves the use of beer as
an ingredient . . . anyway it was
tops in fine eating. Inadvertently
missed out this last week on a feed
with them of prawns from East
point Seafood special shrimp-log
process.
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While on the subject of sea foods
I might say that unless you have
tried any of the clam showder
made by Kathy at the Town Club
every Friday then you just ain’t
lived yet!
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For those who might think that
the position of local fishermen
and the Kodiak Mirror is per
haps extreme we’d like to quote
from a report on fisheries pre
pared by the Department of In
terior showing that other na
tion’s have for some time recog
nized the need for extension of
national waters and use of gun
boats to protect their interests:
“Spokesmen for the Fisheries
Council of Canada met with a
committee of the Federal Cabinet
in Ottawa on Jan. 28, and urged
the government to take action on
declaring national waters, estab
lishing base lines, and adopting
a 12-mile limit. The rapid in
crease in world fishing effort
and efficiency has focused atten
tion on the fact that, unless ade
quate safeguards are taken, the
marine resources that have
played such a vital role in the de
velopment of the Canadian econ
omy will be harvested by foreign
fishing fleets. Calling for adop
tion of the 12-mile limit, the
brief declared that “unilateral
declaration of the government’s
policy must be followed imme
diately by active enforcement
. . . and the policing of foreign
fishing fleets. In the council’s
opinion, enforcement is absolute
ly essential if Canada is to main
tain her position in world
fisheries.” In the same publica
tion appeared the statement:
‘‘Irish fishermen claim that for
eign trawlers are catching a
large portion of the fish that
would otherwise come further
inshore into their own nets.”
Sound familiar to you Kodiak
fishermen? It soon will unless
you somehow get action NOW to
protect your king crab, shrimp,
and halibut fisheries here.
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