Glimpses of
Fishing In
The Future
By Godfrey Anderson
LONDON I— Glimpses of fish
ing in the future, when fish may
be electronically guided toward
the open nets, were discussed by
the world’s professional fishermen.
Some 650 delegates from 49
countries, winding up a week-long
congress, organized by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization, heard how develop
ments stemming from space re
search were bringing closer the
practical application of new ideas
to harvest the sea.
Main event of the closing day
was a paper, Prospective Develop
ments in the Harvesting of Marine
Fisheries, presented by Dayton L.
Alverson, of Seattle, Wn., repre
senting the U.S. Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries and Norman J.
Wilimovsky, of the Fisheries In
stitute, University of British Col
umbia, Canada.
This told of floating plastic logs
which could secretly detect and
report on schools of fish gathering
around them. It told of unmanned
sonar stations which could identify
passing schools, using a kind of
electronic library for references.
Both were claimed as possible de
velopments.
The paper gave this picture of
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Fairbanks Land Office
516 Second Avenue
Fairbanks, Alaska
March 20, 1963
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that George A.
Sheppard, Sheppard Trading Co. of
Mountain Village. Alaska, together with
his witnesses Albert Beans, Mountain
Village. Alaska, and Doug Sheppard,
Mountain Village. Alaska, has filed Ap
plication to Purchase for his Headquar
ters Site, Fairbanks Serial Number
010995. for lands described as: Lot 2,
U.S. Survey No. 4011, Alaska, located
at Pilot Station, Alaska, containing 1.45
acres.
During the period of publication or
within 30 days thereafter any person,
corporation, or association having or
asserting any adverse interest in or
claim to the tract of land or any part
thereof may file in the Fairbanks Land
Office, under oath an adverse claim
setting forth the nature and extent
thereof; and such adverse claimant shall,
within 60 days after the filing of such
adverse claim, begin action to quiet title
in a court of competent jurisdiction in
Alaska, and thereafter patent shall be
issued in conformity with the final de
cree of the court.
Robert F. Hilton,
Chief, Lands Section
Pub: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, June
3, 10, 17, 24, 1963.
j Missionary Reports
Communism Is World's
No. 1 “Success Story”
TORONTO UP> — “Today’s suc
cess story is that of Communism,”
a Presbyterian missionary to India
says.
Communism has done more in
60 years than Christianity has been
able to accomplish in 2,000, the
Rev. Russell Self told 235 startled
delegates to the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church in
Canada Friday night.
The Rev. Mr. Self said Chris
tianity now claims a smaller por
tion of the world’s population than
at any time since its earliest days
while Communism, which had a
handful of adherents in 1903, now
controls the minds of a third of
the world’s poplation. He said the
church must spend more money to
counter Communist propaganda.
what fishing might be like in the
future:
An array of chattering tele
types disgorges an unending mass
of hydrological data. Fisheries pro
grammers feed this statistical in
formation to computers and from
it process biological, oceanographic
and meterological reports. These,
transmitted to the world’s fishing
centers, form the basis for plan
ning, detecting,' harvesting and
processing operations.
This basic information would
arrive through a satellite com
munications link-up between the
teletypes at hydro-central and a
pattern of unmanned buoys spread
through the fishing grounds. The
buoys in turn would be linked
with instruments located at various
depths in the sea itself.
Statistical reports could be in
vestigated on the spot through
automatic contact with buoys
closest to the fish schools. They
could also be checked by aircraft
equipped with laserscopes for
visually probing the depths or
through hydrofoil research craft
equipped with high-speed self
propelled underwater television
vehicles.
Once the order has gone out to
concentrate on a specific area, air
craft might scatter chemical pellets
to attract the fish by odor and
taste towards the main fishing
fleet. The fleet itself might have
remote-controlled underwater ve
hicles capable of producing elec
tronic, sonic or bubble barriers
to drive the fish towards the
I fleet and its waiting nets.
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| Japan Wants Return
Of Ryukyu Islands
TOKYO W — The United States
should return the Ryukyu Islands
to Japan, according to 66 per cent
of Japan’s young adults polled on
the subject by the Japanese gov
ernment.
The government conducted the
poll in March 1962 but withheld
publication until Saturday. The
government said it did not release
the poll at the time it was com
pleted because it would have coin
cided wTith President Kennedy’s
announcement that the United
States must continue to govern the
islands. A U.S. governor at Okin
awa has administered affairs since
the end of World War II.
The government said it survey
ed 8,000 men and women between
the ages of 20 and 25. Of those who
favored the islands’ return to
Japanese jurisdiction, 24 per cent
called for an unconditional release.
KENNEDY WILL BE FIRST
PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
NEW YORK UP) — President
Kennedy will become the first U.S.
chief executive to address the Na
tional Council of Churches when
he speaks before the 1963 General
Assembly in Philadelphia next
Dec. 3, Council President J. Irwin
Miller announced Saturday.
Kennedy will talk on “our liber
ties, one and indivisible,” Miller
said.
The council is made up of 24
Protestant and seven Eastern Orth
odox bodies with a combined mem
bership of about 40 million persons.
About 5,000 church representa
tives are expected in Philadelphia
for the Dec. 1-7 assembly, Miller
said.
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comments were not directed at
ocean rates but toward rails, about
“identical services for an identical
product over an identical distance.”
Bartlett, speaking of the fishing
zone, said the United States has
the power to extend territorial
waters beyond the present three
mile limit.
He cited arguments that exten
sion of territorial waters might be
detrimental to defense interests by
blocking the Navy with such re
strictions.
However, Bartlett said, “it may
well be in our defense interest to
prohibit foreign fishing vessels,
particularly Russian fishing ves
sels, from engaging in fishing ac
tivities within 12 miles off our
coast.”
He said an extension would keep
hundreds of Russian fishing boats
now operating off the U.S. coast
at a safer distance.
Canadian Fishing Zone
Rep. Ralph Rivers, commenting
on the Canadian fishing zone ex
pansion, said “in all regards our
Canadian friends have set a valu
able precedent for the United
States to follow for the better pro
tection of its off-shore fisheries.”
Assertion of exclusive rights
within a 12-mile limit would be
consistent with properly conserv
ing the Kodiak king crab fishery,
Rivers said in a statement.
Rivers said he was recommend
ing appropriate action to the State
Department “with perhaps some
equitable recognition of historic
rights as between United States
and Canadian fishermen.”
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National Research Council, which
experiments with anything, hopes
birds can take care of the birds
at the Vancouver Internationa] Air
port.
The council plans to use special
ly trained falcons to keep airport
runways clear of ducks, pheasants
and seagulls.
Airport officials have been baf
fled by the bird problem, as have
many other airports, since jet
liners first came into wide use.
They say modern devices have
either failed or been only partly
successful.
Falcons have been used for cen
turies for hunting game. When
Harold was hit in the eye in the
battle of Hastings in 1066, falcons
were used as weapons.
The birds can reach 200 miles
an hour in a power dive.
One thing that failed at the air
port here — located at the estuary
of the Fraser River — was a de
vice that went bang! E\fery 20
seconds. The birds soon were sit
ting right next to it.
Two years ago it cost an airline
company $100,000 here to clean
and repair a jet engine that had
sucked in a covey of pheasants.
The pilot, with 69 passengers
aboard, stopped before reaching
the runway’s end.
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