Along The Waterfront
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Perhaps those interested in get
ting a larger vessel for crabbing or
shrimping might hit paydirt by
contacting the Ketchikan Mer
chants Co-op or the Alaska Outport
Transportation Association. Both
these outfits operated small
freighters for “mosquito fleet”
cargo service between Seattle and
SE Alaskan ports until last month
when their congressional authori
zations expired. Names of the ves
sels involved are: Robert Eugene,
Vitanic, Iceland^. Sidney, Delpeu,
Klehowa and Western No. 7. Th?
latter is a barge.
&
On the bill to provide money for
installation of sleeperettes on state
operated ferries, Lew M. Williams
of the Wrangell Sentinel Periscope
column had this to say: “The bill
appears to have an excellent chance
of passing. If they can’t get enough
votes the first time around, it
would be pretty simple to land the
nay votes aboard the ferry and give
’em a night in reclining chairs.
They would probably vote right
the next day.”
&
We join with the Petersburg
Press in acknowledging the feat
accomplished by the International
Halibut Commission in bringing
back a fishery that was seriously
depleted by lack of proper man
agement. Said a Press editorial:
“During the past 31 years of com
mission management, there has
been progressive improvement of
the stocks and increase in annual
yield. The annual catch, which had
declined to 44,000,000 pounds by
1931, the year before regulation,
has average 72,000,000 pounds dur
ing the past four years. The 1962
catch of nearly 75,000,000 pounds
was worth over $22,500,000 to fish
ermen. Both are all time records.”
&
From Lone E. Janson’s Water
front Scuttlebutt column in the
Cordova Times we learn that ‘A
crab fishermen settlement has been
made, with 14 cents a pound the
going price.” Next to be settled
over there is canneryworker’s
wages.
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From our vast influx of usually
self-serving and almost always un
interesting and worthless press re
leases (all newspapers get them)
we gleaned the following item
You Don’t Know
How Good
King Crab
Can Be Until
You Have Tried
THE TOWN CLUB
Try H
TONIGHT!
(Closed Monday)
which might serve as warning of
what could happen here should the
Japanese and Russians be allowed
to continue their fishery efforts
in our waters undisturbed: “If you
were one of those who was virtual
ly forced to eat a piece of steak on
a fast day last year because there
weren’t any Maine sardines around
—it was because of those Rus
sians! It is now revealed that a
Soviet fishing fleet, operating ar
offshore in the vastness of thj
Gulf of Maine, caught enough of
those little herring (known as sar
dines when they’re packed in a can
like people in the New York sub
way) to fill the two million cases
normally supplied to the U.S. mar
ket by the shoreside canners. This
was apparently going on while the
local fishermen spread their seines
along the coast and waited vainly
for the schools of little fishes that
had formed a habit of migrating to
these shores long before the white
man ever thought of it.” This very
same thing could happen this year
to our Kodiak salmon fishermen if
the Japanese are not somehow per
suaded or forced to cease their
high seas salmon fishery in the
Alaskan waters. IT ALREADY
HAS HAPPENED TO BRISTOL
BAY FISHERMEN!
£
Carl Rodli of Kodiak Suppliers,
who, when it comes to marine
equipment, always sez, “If I ain’t
got it, I’ll get it,” returned this
week from a ten-day business trip
that took him to Seattle and Port
land. He is located over in the
Deveau Electronics building facing
the boat harbor.
Alaska Ice & Cold Storage Man
ager Bix Bonney reports that an
other 90,000 pounds of halibut was
shipped out on the Tanana Thurs
day.
o &
Stopped by this week at Auster
man’s where Irene treated me to
a dish of pickled king crab tails . ..
something new for gourmets. She
said they got them from Jack Jar
vis. Incidentally you can get fried
crab tails at Lill’s Cafe which is
open day and night nowadays.
&
While at Austerman’s I ran into
an item which might be of interest
to boat owners. Stan has a huge
heavy gauge copper water tank.
He put in a new hot water heating
system recently and is willing to
sell this 250-gal. copper tank. Con
tact Mecca Cab or call him at
home.
£
Any day now Wakefield Fish
eries will be able to boast of having
the largest U.S. vessel exclusively
fishing crab in Alaska and also the
largest boat specially designed for
pure crab fishing! The 159-ft. M/V
Shilshaldin left Seattle northward
bound on Jan. 19 after nearly three
months of conversion work. The
mighty crab fisher is owned by
Shilshaldin Fisheries, Inc., and
chartered to Arne Serwold who
will use her to fish king crab for
Wakefield Fisheries. Her two tanks
have a capacity of 14,000 crab.
Each tank has a steel frame at the
bottom with 3/8-inch nylon web
bing allowing the crabs to be
raised from the bottom of the tank
and thus facilitates unloading.
£
APA’s Vern Hilliker and Pete
Marinkovich left early this week
for Anchorage and are expected
to be heading down the coast on
business matters.
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One vessel we ve never had an
opportunity to board although she
pulls in at least 15 times a year Is
the M/S Alaska Standard whose
skipper Captain H. Solibakke has
been navigating Alaskan waters for
the past 25 years steady.
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Business is booming at the
Komm Shipyard! Mitchell is wait
ing on a shipment of various neces
sary building supplies and fishing
crab in the meantime aboard Doug
Lohse’s Padilla. He is building up
a considerable backlog of orders ac
cording to his wife, Barbara . . .
and this might account for the re
turn here last week of one of his
younger brothers, Maurice Harmon
who is equally adept at model boat
building.
T
Jerry MacDougal, who was wiih
the Dungeness crab fleet here last
season, tells me he has received
word from down Willapa and
Grays Harbor way that dungeness
are very scarce along the coast with
many boats picking up their gear
altogether. He said indications are
that a sizeable number are plan
ning to head for Kodiak shortly.
&
As if’n having the Russians
trawling through our crab gear and
the Japanese a ’tryin to sneak into
Shelikof Straits weren’t ’nuff trou
bles fer our smaller boats, now be
lieve it or not we got a case of a
Navy aircraft carrier all but sink
ing a small boat right in Resur
rection Bay the other day! It’s true!
The baby flat-top U.S.S. Breton
was anchored in the harbor at Se
ward and the Kenai Lumber Com
pany tug Regent brought part of
the carrier’s crew back from shore.
As the Regent left the navy vessel
to return to shore ,the Breton
started up at the same time and in
advertently ripped the mast and
boom off the tugboat and tore out
part of the bulwark on the port
side as well as damaged the hull.
The Regent is here now for re
pairs. One local waterfront wag
took one look at the really royally
ripped-up Regent, shook his head
dolefully saying, “Now really, this
is carrying the Pink Pass thing
just too far!”
&
Talked a pleasant few minniuts
with Shirley Fillis, office manf r d
of Eastpoint Seafoods and learned
they are already beginning to go
into a second shift and haven’t
even yet completed their frozen
shrimp line operation . . . when it
gets going they will have a 2-shift
operation going steady. Both Vita
and Fortress are busy scooping up
shrimp as of Thursday.
Automation In State Highway Office
An examination of new data processing equipment was included in
a four-day meeting concluded this week in Juneau for district ad
ministrative personnel of the Department of Highways. Shown here
are from left, R. G. Berg, Highways administrative director, II. C.
Fault, Anchorage district administrative officer, Albert Jorgensen,
tabulating machine operator, Juneau, and Mrs. Fern Cleghorn, An
chorage district accountant. (Mrs. Cleghorn is the former Fern Sar
gent of Kodiak.) Berg is well known to Kodiakans also inasmuch
as he was city clerk-treasurer here several years ago.
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