Lifting Of Crabmeaf Import Ban
Not Justified, Says Sen. E. L. Bartlett
Letters and telegrams of protest
have gone out from various points
along Kodiak Island against lifting
the ban on importing Russian
crabmeat into the United States.
Tlhe Chamber of Commerce here
and various cannery officials have
sent wires to government officials
and Alaska’s delegates to Congress
citing the grave consequences of
such a move.
First inkling of the U. S. govern
ment contemplating such a move
appeared in an article on the front
page of the New York Times, dated
March 10. The article, written by
Richard E. Mooney, cited several
reliable sources of information.
Lifting the 'ban has aroused the
delegates to Congress, who have
protested to the State Department,
Treasury Department and the De
partment of Commerce. Sen. Bart
lett (D-Alaska), appeared on the
floor of the Senate that same day
stating he was “gravely concerned”
at the apparent determination to
lift the ban. Excerpts from his
speech as reprinted in the Con
gressional Record are as follows:
“The ban now in existence was
imposed 10 years ago, when the
Treasury Department made a find
ing to the effect that Russian crab
meat was being produced by slave
labor in Russia, and therefore,
could not be brought into this
country. The article to which I
have referred said that this deter
mination, and its implementation
during the years, has “irritated the
Russians.”
“i do not know what our Govern
ment hopes, or expects, to obtain
from the Russian Government in
return for the privilege of allowing
the Soviets to ship this product into
the United States. What I do know,
and know positively, of my per
sonal knowledge is that grave hurt
is going to be done to an American
industry at a time when it is just
beginning to get on its feet.”
(Sen. Bartlett then stated that
U. S. producers supplied 28.7 per
cent of the nation’s needs, other
sources not including the Russians
accounting for 71.3 percent. He
then remarked on the Russian fish
ing fleet’s intensification of ac
tivities in this fishery in the Ber
ing Sea, which they say they will
expand to! the waters of the Gulf
of Alaska. Mr. Bartlett continues:
These are international waters.
The Russian under International
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law ihave every right to fish there,
despite the fact that there and else
where off the coast of Alaska
American fishermen have, or ought
to be construed to have, under the
rules of the game, certain historic
rights based upon initial discover
ies and continued fishing opera
tions.
I think it would be a grievious
error for our Government now to
make an arrangement to permit
the Soviets to ship crabmeat into
this country. I know that in other
departments of our Government
this decision—if that is what it is
—is going to cause very real con
cern, for technical experts on fish
eries in these departments have
shared with the American fishing
industry and with those of us in
public life who have such a lively
interest in the subject an appre
hension over what may be the Rus
sian intentions.
Mr. President, Russia is now fish
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ing on the seven seas. Russia is
fishing, as I indicated, with the
most modern fleet in the world,
and has every intention, according
to quotations of what the Russians
have said, of possessing the largest
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time. The Russians are well on the
way to accomplishing this goal.
At the very time when the Rus
sians have entered fishing grounds
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