Salmon Fishermen:
Fish Reg. Changes
Important To You
During the 1963 spring meeting
of the Board of Fish & Game the
following items constituted a
change in the 1963 Commercial
Fishing Regulations for the Ko
diak Area.
A correction was made to the
boundary of the Uganik Bay dis
trict (108.03 g) to read: All waters
of Uganik and Viekoda Bays in
side a line from Broken Point to
Malina Point to Outlet Cape. One
point of the boundary was changed
from West Point to Broken Point
to conform with the description of
the Karluk district.
The section (108.10) Legal gear,
Salmon (8) General district had
part (G) added to read: Marmot
Bay: North and east of the latitude
of Inner point (Kizhuyak Bay) and
of a line thence to Shakmanof
Point thence to Ouzinkie Point
(Spruce Island) thence to South
Point thence to Termination Point
(Monashka Bay). This closes Mar
mot Bay outside the described line
to set netting. Aitnougn not a
change, as it was the intent of the
Board of Fish and Game for the
1962 season it was inadvertently
overlooked in the printed regula
tions. Set Net areas in Kizhuyak
Bay, Soldiers Cove and Ouzinkie
Straits have been allowed for.
In Section 108.15 size and opera
tion of purse seines, hand purse
seines, leads and beach seines, part
(b) the wording concerning use of
leads has been changed to read:
One lead not more than 100 fath
oms in length may be used with
each purse seine or hand purse
seine. The aggregate length of
seine and lead shall not exceed
250 fathoms.
In the closed waters section the
wording concerning (e) Sturgeon
River should read: within a line
from Cape Karluk to Sturgeon
Head.
Wide Bay and Imuya Bay will be
opened to commercial fishing bj
field announcement on or aboul
July (8) eight and be closed on oi
about July 19. The opening, di
reeled by the Board of Fish and
Game, is to allow harvest of the
early, chums in Gut area.
Gear licenses Issued for the 1963
Kodiak salmon season include 202
resident and -106 non-resident
purse seine; 115 resident and 43
non-resident set nets; 9 resident
and 3 non-resident beach seines.
This represents a reduction in
purse seine licenses from 1962 ol
18, an increase in set net licenses
of 9 and an increase in beach seines
of 2.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Eleven cases of mumps are listed
for the Kodiak Island area com
municable disease report for the
week ending June 21. Three cases
of Otitis Media (runny ears to you )
and one case of tuberculosis are
also listed. Otherwise antibiotics
have triumphed again.
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has been in port several days get
ting repairs accomplished.
£
Skipper Bennie Grotecloss’ Jan
M is all repainted and ready to
begin fishing anytime now. She
had some electronic work done and
now has a new radio. Crewman
aboard is Don Kessler.
£
Shrimpers, with longer days and
some better weather have been
bringing in better catches to East
Point Seafoods according to Snpt.
Jim Major. The Vita had a little
trouble and was in port several
days.
&
Down Alaska Ice & Storage way
deliveries of halibut continue fair
and they will hit the two million
mark within a couple of days or
so. Manager Bix Bonney said he
had received about 16,000 pounds
of red salmon which is about 4,000
fish. He pointed out that the cold
storage is not purchasing salmon
itself. The man to see is buyer
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rake a demonstration ride
Tommy Gallagher of the Polai
Bear Cafe in town in case you in
tend to deliver any salmon. The
cold storage plant will accept any
one’s fish for freezing but is not
buying the fish itself.
THE BUOY LINE
While we’re trying to re-nego
tiate the North Pacific Treaty
and keep the abstention princi
ple alive, a great fleet of more
than 200 boats is working the
fabulously rich Portlock and Al
batross banks, almost within
spitting distance of Kodiak. The
Japs, bad as they are, have never
concentrated a fleet like this;
nor do they bring gunboats with
them. But the Russians do. And
this is a Russian fleet!
They are evidently fishing
ocean perch with mid-water
trawls, but while they are off
the bottom, the sheer size of
this fleet sweeping back and
forth will push any stationary
fisherman right off the grounds.
It’s one thing to face the normal
risks of business—but it’s quite
another for American fishermen
to face the certain loss of a’l
their gear. So between the Japs,
who plan to steal our fish, and
the Russians who drive our
boats off the grounds, the fish
ing business is getting pretty
sticky.
Some fishermen seem to be
lieve that we should try to get
the Russians on the dotted line
along with the Japs and Cana
dians. But I think we should
remember that, while we would
be bound by any agreement we
might make, the Russians will
honor their agreements only
when it suits them.
Kodiak isn’t the only place in
the world where the Russians
are making a big effort. They
are evidently pushing the Japs
out of the Atlantic off the Af
rican Coast, and clearly intend
to attain dominance in all the
fishery areas of the world.
I know this isn’t a very popu
lar thing to say just now, but I
think Ecuador has the answer.
She’s out to protect her coastal
fishery, and she sends gunboats
to do the job.
It wouldn’t be that simple for
us; we have responsibilities
which are not faced by any other
country in the' world. Bat I
think a good case could be made
to show that protecting our fish
eries is a way of strengthening
the free world. Is, in other
words, as important to our na
tional defense as bigger and
better battleships!
We’re handing out several bil
lion dollars every year in our
foreign aid program. This aid
builds schools and roads, buys
tools and generally is aimed at
helping people in Africa and
Asia—and South America, as
well, to get on their feet. We
can’t feed the whole world—
not even all the underdeveloped
areas of the world—which today
make up nearly 75% of the total
United Nations members—but
we could make it possible for
a lot of them to feed themselves.
We could take the lead in the
United Nations and demand the
100 fathom curve as (a) essen
tial to the continued preserva
tion of this vital food source,
and (b) essential to the oeenom
ic well-being of the newly
emerging countries of Africa
and Asia who then could license
and supervise a tuna and bottom
fishery where, up to now, it s
been every man for himself and
to hell with the future. This is
the attitude of the Japs and the
Russians—but mankind cannot
risk losing this source of food.
This, I think, is where our na
tional interest really lies! And
it’s up to us to take the lead.
Best regards,
BILL RITTER
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