Along The
Waterfront
(Ed. note: The items appearing
below were holdovers from last
week’s column, but are of sufficient
interest to appear this week.)
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Still the busiest man along the
waterfront is Ray Martin, Jr., who
is attempting to keep abreast of his
ever-mounting fresh King Crab or
ders and to expand his plant’s
production facilities. His immedi
ate expansion program is already
under way with Neil Sargent work
ing on the installation of a 2-sec
tion reefer-cooler. Waiting to be
installed is another cooker. Be
sides this Ray is putting in another
live box at the dock and has added
a new Volkswagen delivery panel
truck for Martin’s Fresh Crab.
“Handsome” Hochmuth, one of
Ray’s hard-working crew sez we
erred in reporting the name of his
assistant whom he identified as
Earl “Lonesome” Lloyd.
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Down at the APA float we see
Skipper Teddy Gregorioff’s King
fisher which just ended a success
ful crabbing season and is waiting
to put up her crab gear and pre
pare for salmon fishing. Aboard
her was one of the local Nelson
boys, Sammy Nelson of the well
known Oscar Nelson fishing fam
ily. Sammy expects to leave for
Larsen Bay about the first of the
week to pick up the APA-6 which
he is skippering this year.
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Fred Brechan reports that the
barge Lex, jointly owned by him
self and Skipper Dale Kramer, car
ried supplies for the Alaska De
partment of Fish and Game Re
search Station at Kitoi Bay on
Afognak Island last week.
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Down at Maurice “Red” Burn
ham’s Kodiak Welding Works they
have been working on a number of
vessels including the Tradewind
(fixing the drive or her hydraulic
pump), and also the huge research
vessel St. Michael, which with her
sister ship the Western Flyer came
into port last week and left for the
Potlock Bank where they are
conducting research tor the Hali
but Commission. Also in for work
were the Flying Scud and Skippy
of the salmon and crab fleet.
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Alvine’s Marine Repair has had
Skipper Jim Cuthbert’s Yukon up
for copper painting this past week
and also in dry dock were the Ca
nadian vessels Miss Jean and Allc
verdy. Pete Deveau changed the
transducer on the Miss Jean while
she was there.
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Skipper Hans Mikelsen of the 78
foot vessel Tradewind tells us that
shrimp fishing has been “pretty
fair” recently. The Tradewind has
been shrimping for Ivar Wendt of
Seldovia and was forced to come
into Kodiak due to hydraulic trou
ble. Parts had to be flown up from
Seattle to repair her. Skipper Mi
kelsen, who has been fishing in
Alaskan waters for over 30 years
now, “mostly for herring,” is pessi
mistic about the future of Alaska’s
fisheries because of the Russian
and Japanese encroachments. “I
give it about ten more years and
then it will be all done with . . .
you’ll see . . . the industry is done
for unless they do something about
the Russians and Japanese,” he
said emphatically in his “Bothel
accent.”
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A goodly number of Canadian
halibut vessels have been into port
this past week. The Linda of Van
couver, B.C., had engine trouble
and tied up for repairs at the
A.P.A. dock Wednesday. The Miss
Jean, also out of Vancouver, B.C.,
has been tied up alongside Lloyd
Cannon’s Oceanic at the Standard
Oil dock. And alongside her was
the Pioneer II of Poulsbo, Wash.
Also in was the Canadian halibut
boat B. C. Clipper.
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Red Salmon fishing went into
high gear following settlement of
fish prices by the fishermen and
canneries week before last Satur
day. And although the total fish
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KNUDSEN’S — Where All Kodiak Shops
pack through June 17 Is somewhat
less than by the same date last
year, other indications point to a
good season, according to ADF&G
Management Biologist Dexter F.
Lall, who attributed the smaller
total pack total to “probably the
strike.” “The weir counts are con
siderably better than last year and
high seas reports are favorable
too,” Lall advised. One outfit,
Washington Fish and Oyster, is
freezing halibut and salmon at
Port Williams, while four can
neries are now operating: King
Crab., Inc., A.P.A.’s Larsen Bay
plant, A1 Owen’s Uganik Trading
Co., and West Point Canning Co.
In weeks to come we will endeavor
to give you salmon pack totals and
comparative figures from previous
years. In case you’re interested,
the total razor clam pack of 24%
pound cases is now 11,576.
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King Crab Inc. Superintendent
Bob Springhill advises they have
have been getting “a few salmon
... a few crab.” They expect to
operate today and possibly Satur
day and Sunday. Their crab boat
the Chacon, skippered by Carl Teu
ber arrived back from Seattle
where she had been undergoing
repairs.
Extend Fishing
For Red River
Department of Fsh & Game has
announced an emergency regula
tion extending the fishing time in
the Red River District to seven
days a week. In addition the re
stricted area at the mouth of the
stream has been reduced from one
mile to 100 yards.
Weir counts and aerial surveys
of the stream indicate the presence
of large numbers of Red Salmon
in Red River.
This regulation went into effect
the morning of June 28.
DIVORCES GRANTED
The following divorces were
granted by Superior Court Judge
Ralph E. Moody during sessions
held here early this week:
Ann Larson vs. Clarence E. Lar
son; George L. Horner vs. Yoone
Horner; Gilbert M. Lopez vs. Linda
B. Lopez; Marva Jean Pridemore
vs. Stanley R. Pridemore; Clara
Borenin vs. Sirgie Borenin; Gladys
Mae Young vs. Orville C. Young.
Securities Firm
Suspends Business
The President of Paul Nichols &
Company, Inc., Anchorage securi
ties firm announced this week that
the company was suspending op
eration at this time.
The firm’s capital of some $114,
000.00 has suffered serious erosion
due to the sharp drop of the mar
ket, a corresponding drop in busi
ness and other factors, Nichols
stated.
While the company’s assets ex
ceed its liabilities by some $20,000
the present market conditions
make it unattractive to inject new
capital.
The office will remain open for
the period necessary to deliver se
curities and to settle accounts in
order to protect the interest of the
general public.
NOTICE
“Notice, real estate examinations
will be given July 28, 1962, at An
chorage, Kodiak. Fairbanks, Nome,
Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau.
“Written application must be
filed with A. H. Romick, Commis
sioner of Commerce. P.O. Box 2259,
Juneau, not later than July 20,
1962.
“Information may be obtained
from any member of the Real
Estate Examining Board: Vernon
E. Haik, P.O. Box 1517, Anchorage;
John W. Pasley, P.O. Box 2233,
Fairbanks; Ray R. Reagan, 431
Dock Street, Ketchikan.”
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