TIE BIOT UIE
The world’s leading food and
social scientists have just fin
ished a meeting of such grave
importance in Washington that
everything else, our negotiation
with Japan included, looks puny
by comparison. This was the 100
nation meeting of the Food and
Agriculture Organization — the
FAO—of the United Nations.
These men were gathered to
talk about food. Whether or not
we realize it, food and people
ore the most serious problems
facing the world today. In the
past 150 years, mankind has in
creased through war, famine
and disease, by about 400%. In
1830, there were 1 billion peo
ple on this planet. By 1960, we
doubled again to 4 billion. And
in the year 2000, according to
these men, there will be 8 bil
lion mouths to feed!
Hunger causes wars. Ana tam
ine could kindle a third world
war, which could destroy the en
tire earth.
It was this somber thought
that underlay much of the meet
ing. What can be done about it?
The most obvious thing to do
is save our resources, and culti
vate them carefully. This means
preventing soil erosion, it means
saving watersheds, and it means
rational fishery conservation.
The sea would undoubtedly
be our greatest source of pro
tein by the year 2000. It will,
that is, if it hasn’t been de
stroyed by the unbelievable
greed and calloused indifference
for the future which has marked
the Japanese and Russian fish
ery up to now.
The American position at the
Sea Law Conference in Geneva
stressed the narrowest possible
territorial sea for all nations in
order to maintan easy entry for
our battleships in various straits
around the world. At that time,
in 1958 and 1960, this was be
lieved to be in our best national
interest, and the fisheries sim
ply had to give way.
But this isn’t 1960 any more.
Admiral Anderson, Ihe out
spoken advocate of huge air
craft carriers has been fired,
and more and more reliance is
being placed instead on Polaris
submarines and Minuteman mis
siles. And now, it’s about time
we took another look at where
our national interest really lies.
I think it lies on the 100
fathom curve around every
coastline in the world. I think
the responsibility for preserving
and maintaining a food supply
for generations yet unborn is so
great that it can only be given
to the individual countries who
control the uplands adjacent to
these shelf areas. Let the high
seas fleets of Japan and Russia
fish the high-seas. But by put
ting the continental shelf under
the direct supervision and con
trol of the many maritime na
tions of the world, we will be
creating nursery areas not un
like the inland lake where our
salmon spawn and are reared,
which will not only give these
countries, many of which are
terribly underdeveloped and un
derfed already, a resource rich
in value, but will also guaran
tee for the people of the world,
in the year 2000, that they will
“How’s Fishing?”
Weil, It Depends,
Says Dexter Lall
How’s fishing? Well, it is poor,
fair, average, good and excellent
depending on what fishery you are
talking about. Following is the
answer given the Kodiak Mirror
in solid statistics on the salmon
(both pink-chum and red), razor
clom, king crab, and dungeness
Red Salmon
A total of 15,594 cases of salmon
were packed by six Kodiak Island
canneries up through July 14th,
according to figures released this
week by ADF&G’s Dexter Lall.
The case pack (48 lib tails to
case) by specie was: 3,486 Reds;
6,158 Pinks; 83% Cohos; 5,867
Chums.
Lall advised that Red escape
ment was low with only 49,000 ac
ross the Red River wier “which is
way less than the 151,000 escape
ment recorded by this same date
in 1961.
Karluk escapement was still low
with 166,000; Olga Bay only 22,000
and Lall said catches have been
small. |
Pink Salmon
The picture was somewhat
brighter on the Pink Salmon out
look for the island according to
Lall.
“It is still encouraging and we
feel it will be a slightly better than
average season. The state’s conser
vation efforts will pay off in time. .
it is only a matter of time before
the pink runs are built back up to
normal for the odd years,” Lall
said.
“The Pink and Chum escapement
considered good at present and is
slightly better than the parent
year,” said Lall.
“The catches are normal for an
odd year and slightly better than
the parent year with daily catches
of about 90,000 per day,” Lall said.
Razor Clams
The razor clam picture is an im
provement catchwise over last sea
son with a total of 424,000 pounds
reported as compared with last
year’s 320,000 total.
Lall said the clam season term
inated on July 11th excepting for
experimental work with the mech
anical harvester.
King Crab
The take of king crab increased
by over 8,000,000 pounds above the
previous season with the record
catch of 4,171,000 pounds bringing
the fiscal year total up to 36,793,000
pounds as compared with the 1961
62 total of 28,648,753 and the 1960
61 season total of 21,465,325. The
average weight per king crab dur
ing the past season was 8.8 lbs.
Dungeness Crab
Kodiak is definitely in the dun
geness picture again this year with
a total of 545,800 pounds reported
whch is about the same as last
year for the same period of time,
Lall said. j
have something to eat.
This is where our national
interest lies today!
Best regards,
BILL RITTER
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