First Year Catch Reports Indicate
Kodiak Is Major Dungeness Area
Kodiak now has another fishing
bonanza!
According to reports of fisher
men who came to Kodiak this
spring to prospect for Dungeness
Crab, Kodiak waters have defi
nitely proven out to be a new and
extensive commercial fishing
ground for that important species
of shellfish.
Catch reports from official gov
ernmental agencies substantiate
the statements of dungeness pro
spectors. Only eight boats fished
dungeness this first year.
Through the end of October, no
less than 1,864.990 pounds of dun
geness crab were taken and proc
essed in the Kodiak district this
year. As yet uncompiled figures
including the month of November
would increase that figure.
While the catch was consider
ably less than that recorded for
the same period for King Crab
(which totaled 12,538,269 lbs.
through October), it is noted that
this is the very first time Dunge
ness crab has been fished here on
a commercial basis.
According to Skipper-owner
Doug Putansu of the 78-foot D/V
Mitkof, only eight vessels were en
gaged in the Dungeness operation
accounting for the total catch.
The Mitkof came to Kodiak
along with a mothership and sev
eral other fishing boats last April
for the express purpose of explor
ing the prospects of fishing Dunge
ness crab on a commercial basis.
While reports earlier in the sea
son were not entirely satisfactory,
the latter half of the season “es
tablished beyond any doubt that
Kodiak is a major Dungeness fish
ing area.”
"The commercial dungeness fish
ery stands now right about where
the King Crab fishery here stood
about 10 years ago,” Putansu told
the Mirror this week.
“It is only a matter of a short
time that the Dungeness fishery
here will perhaps equal and rival
in size and importance the great
King Crab fishery that has been
developed so quickly in Kodiak,”
he added.
According to Putansu, who said
he hopes to move his home and
family to Kodiak shortly, this first
year’s catch here by itself rivals
that of the long established Dunge
ness fisheries offshore from Wash
ington, Oregon and Northern Cali
fornia for this season.
200th Anniversary
Will Be Observed
The Kodiak and Aleutian Island
Historical Society will hold their
quarterly meeting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the library
of the high school. All members
and other interested persons are
urged to attend this meeting.
The program will include a dem
onstration of the Society’s micro
film reader by Dr. Bob Johnson,
and preliminary planning for next
year’s observance of the 200th an
niversary of the first confirmed
European visit to Kodiak. Refresh
ments will be served.
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ster promised he would watch over
her till we get back!”
&
Step-and-a-half’d my way down
APA way Wednesday to see “To
ledo” and had a heck of a time
making an impressive enough dis
play of my limp to keep from going
to work. Superintendent Ralph
Jones’ first question was “Where’s
your boots?” . . . Then Supervisor
Tom McAllister spotted me and
said “Hurry out to the dock and
help unload the Heron. . . . She
brought in 7,500 crab.” Limping
with obvious pain away from these
two understanding and sympa
thetic souls was easy enough but
getting by my foreman Phil Ding
lasa took some doing. . . . Had to
fall down three times before he
was convinced I just couldn’t make
boxes!
&
Weather continues to be the
hampering factor as far as crab
bing goes. Few boats are able to
fish with the high winds of late
... a few of the smaller boats
that fish in more protected areas
are sometimes able to pick pots
but then are usually unable to
deliver.
&
Alaska King Crab Super Emil
Norton said their big tender, the
Ocean Maid is expected to be here
from Seattle Friday night, “weath
er permitting.” The 133-foot ves
sel will be skippered by Captain
Palmer Peterson this season.
&
Tuesday night’s high wind blasts
drove the 18-foot cabin cruiser be
longing to Ken Dugwyler and Rob
ert Armstrong onto rocks just out
side the small boat harbor. How
the boat, equipped with two 18
h.p. Evinrude motors, got loose
from its mooring inside the Union
Oil Pier is a mystery, however, as
she was double tied with an added
safety line. The little vessel was
smashed to bits on the rocks and
is a total loss.
Tom Gallagher and Joe Malutin
returned last week from a conven
tion in Anchorage of United Indus
trial Workers of North America
where they represented the local
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that; the
Joint Venture heretofore existing
between R. D. KRAMER and FRED
C. BRECHAN and RUTH S.
BRECHAN, who heretofore have
been operating the oil screw LEX
in the business of transporting
freight, salmon and other products
of the sea, in and around Kodiak,
Alaska, and vicinity, is now dis
solved by mutual consent.
R. D. KRAMER, of the City of
Kodiak, has withdrawn from and
has ceased to be associated in the
carrying on of said business, and
FRED C. BRECHAN and RUTH S.
BRECHAN will hereafter carry on
said business and they are entitled
to all the property owned by the
Joint Venture and have assumed
and will pay all outstanding busi
ness obligations of the Joint Ven
ture in oil screw LEX heretofore
or hereafter incurred.
Said Joint Venture is dissolved
as of November 27, 1982.
R. D. Kramer
Fred C. Brechan
Ruth S. Brechan
Longshoremen’s Union After look
ing over the city’s budget estimates
of the dock fund for 1962 63, Tom
pointed out that longshoremen will
receive $18,800 out of the antici
pated $114,640 in revenues. “Makes
it kinda difficult for them to blame
the high freight costs on longshore
men,” he aptly commented. The
city manager and city clerk by
themselves are paid $5,164.80 out
of the dock fund . . . loading?
&
Yup, the big boys down at city
hall finally gave forth with a copy
of the city budget estimates for
1962 63 ... or at least the general
fund and the dock fund. It would
be nice to get copies of the other
funds too . . . the small boat harbor
fund, the utility fund, street con
struction fund, etc. . . . plus a copy
of the annual audit. It woulda been
well worthwhile to the public to
have had the budget information
back when it was being considered
. . . back in June as a matter of
fact! Withholding this vital infor
mation from the press and public
serves only to make people mighty
suspicious. We also wish to thank
the city administration for send
ing us a manual on how newspa
permen should conduct themselves
in getting along with city officials.
. . . Yes Sir, Thank you so kindly,
Mister City Official, Sir, Honorable
Sire!
Marine Surveyor Bill Damery re
turned from Sanak where the dO
foot seiner Hunter dragged anchor.
She is now up on the beach under
going repairs. And the boat Anna
C is in the boat harbor receiving
attention while work continues on
the Sea Quail at Alvines. . . . Skip
per Larry Bender of the 62-foot
Marguerite was busy this week
picking up pots off Marmot Island.
. . . He's gonna join a number of
the other skippers and wait till
the first of the year before resum
ing operations. His friends may b3
interested in hearing that George
Coma is crabbing on the Honey Bee
down Alitak way now.
£
The city council has okayed pur
chase of a few more of the ice pre
vention gadgets in the small boat
harbor. “They are working good,”
says Harbormaster A1 Fenner, add
ing, “So far.”
&
A number of Kodiak people are
at the Cordova meeting of the
ADF&G state boardj Member Os
car Dyson left last week. Attending
from the local ADF&G staff are:
Glenn Davenport, Bob Simons,
Tom Richardson, Dexter Lall, Mary
Franklin, and Jerry Sexsmith.
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