The Figiiiing Fisherman's First‘ Love Is The Sea

If Yvon Durelle the fighting fishermen from Bale St. Anne, should ever become world light heavyweight boxing champion, he'll be one of the most colorful and unpredictable men ever to Wear a world crown.

Most of the color will stem from his inborn fear of no man, h_iSirnpef.l10l1S personality and the conflict between his desire to fight and his reluctance to take the time for that purpose from , vocation which needs every minute of his time.

[,ovES THE SEA

Yvon loves the sea and he loves the Maritimes. But if he should make the grade he’ll tear us madly back and forth between

Bale St. Anne and the various-

gquared circles as he has done Canadian and British Empire Light Heavyweight Champion.

Yvon, now 27, worked and play- gdas a child around the fishing boats of Baie St. Anne. The uplay" period, of necessity, was what any great duration for any of the Durelle family. At 13, he was spending the winter months lo the rough lumber area of the upper Miramichi River at a time when the smelt fishing wasn't very productive.

A Miramichi Bay fishermen travel heartbreaking distances over solidly frozen areas to choice spots for under-ice set- tings. In Durelle’s youth the pro- fitable box-type net was just coming into use.

DREAMS OF OUR BOAT

Salmon catches by the drift method were the mainstay but the cost of a salmon boat and ets, in the neighborhood of $3,- 600," was unthinkable for a young lad without collateral.

Lobster‘ fishing, which requir- gd my kind of open craft and ; number of homemade traps, offered hard work, the possibil- ity of trap loss by storm but a rewardingly high profit return on I short term venture.

On the other hand, herring poured into Yvon’s bay early in the spring and the catches were

—and _ still are—sizeable. Some-

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times the market was flooded, however, and thousands of pounds of the silver fish ended up as fertilizer in back fields.

risnmo Fon MONEY

fWhen Yvon was '16, the fish- ing began to ‘get tougher for

‘ the small operator“ and many

were looking around for other lobs. The lobster seasons still were profitable but the one-boat operator worked on a shall mar- Em. It was at this time that Yvon became interested in fight- i11g_ for money. ‘ .Smce. early childhood young Yvon had been mixed up in one brawl or another. He had earn- ed a reputation as a rugged fish- Erman and while playing around ,the_ wharves and boat houses ac- — 0_lll1‘ed a like reputation as a fis- ticuffer. He had never ducked a Scrap and was not averse to Starting one himself if conditions W9-.I‘e right; the main condition being the other fellow’s willing- ‘less. ~Tilen in 1946, while on fishing siness in Chatham, N.B. Dur- ‘3 6 saw something that was to change his life. Not only were ! Couple of guys fighting, but

FARMES GATHER IRISH MOSS

A cash crop on Prince Ed-

’ DURELLE THE FIGHTER

people actually were paying for the privilege of watching them. And better still, the fellows wore padded gloves, had protective mouthpieces and ere approxi- mately the same 'ze. '

For a man used to tangling with all comers, regardless of size, this was too good an op- portunity to pass up. It was a golden opportunity for a young fisherman to pick up some easy money to invest -in a fishing fleet. ‘

It was only a matter of days before Durelle, clad in a pair of brand new trunks donated by his priest, was plying his’ fists for‘ pay amid. the cheers of hund- reds of salt-sprayed cohorts from

Miramichi Bay. He took home $15 for his first win.

BUYS LOBSTER BOAT I

After several more fights and many tough sessions at sea, Du- relle was owner of his first lob- ster boat. As the years "went by,

he continued to prosper until to- day he owns his own home, has three 40-foot boats and anticip- ates acquiring a fourth, posses- ses thousands of dollars in traps and is a very proud husband and father of three children.

Durelle today is the second-. ranked light heavyweight in the world. In the fight game he is known as a rugged performer with a wicked punch. He’s In line for a fight with Champion Ar- chie Moore and, providing the match - makers ever come to terms, will give a good account of himself against the King of his division. His manager, Chris Shaban, of Moncton, is convinc- ed he can win.

In the meantime, Yvon attends to the fishing end of his dual business interests from the deck of his favorite boat which is ra- dio-equipped and_powered by a

late summer and early fall. The

ward Island which requires no “Irish Moss” is dried and baled

capital Outlay and one which the and shipped to the United States

Whol is

w.h’i°h grows in

ffamily can help harvest where it demands 3 ready Irlsh Moss". This sea plant ket. The extracts from

, clusters up to moss serves as a valuable em- ‘finches in diameter in \vash- ulsifier and is used 111 the man-

mar-

“1 to shape by the storms of iuf-acture of medicines. Paints-

GM diesel engine. He fishes the Miramichi Bay mostly but at times will venture far out into Northumberland Strait in search of salmon. His sailing knowledge is respected by east coast fish- ermen and his catches are ‘un- usually big.

All of the Durelle males have been fishermen at one time or another and four of Yvon’s bro- thers have been or are profes- sional fighters. .

GAINS WORLD ATTENTION,

A few months ago not many people. outside the Maritimes had

when, on June 14, as a 3 to 1 un- derdog, he blasted out a draw in a 10-round bout with the of- ficial Number One contender for Moore’s crown, Ray Anthony, the

ed were Chris Shaban and thous- ands of fellow-Maritimers.

These same Maritimers, accor- ding to Dave McKay, former sports editor of the Moncton Times, “would fill the‘ house just to watch Durelle shadow box for three rounds.” Most of Yvon’s ap- proximately 140 professional fights were staged in the Mari- times and never reached the of- ficial rcord books.

As far as formal boxing train- ing goes, Durelle had had none. But he has succeeded in develop- ing a style all of his own, chiefly through trial and error, against such well known opponents as Floyd Patterson, present world heavyweight champion; Hecht and Willi Bessmanoff, Ger-

ward of England; Jimmy Slade, Paul Andrews, Clarence Hinnant,

Paterson, Durelle fought was none‘ the worse

the end of the fifth round.

the ring.

ers in, the rich

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polishes, etc. Its stabilizing fac- tor is important in keeping the solid matter of liquids in sus- pension. The annual value of the

th e Irish moss to Prince Edward Is-

la.nd runs between $115,000 to $125,000.

heard of Durelle the fighter. And

only people who weren’t surpris-

Gerard

many; Yolande Pompey of Trini- dad; Ron Barton and Arthur Ho-

’Angelof_DeFendis, Chubby Wright gfand Gbrdpn Wallace1,;;.....-. .

- NEVER COMPLETELY our

, Never, in fighting such an ar- _ ray of top talent, has the French Canadian fisherman been render- ed unconscious. _He has suffered a technical knockout and some ot- hers of dubious variety, but not even Patterson could keep him on the floor. In his last fight with f iv e . ’ rounds with a broken hand and for wear when he was forced to stop at

Success has never gone/to his head. The championships he has won and the success he has had at fishing have left him just as modest and earnest as he was when he earned his first $15 in ,

Some of that modesty and sin,- cerity paid dividents for the Can- adian fishing industry last Sep- tember 18 when the hundreds of thousands. of televiewing consum- / oronto, -Montreal, Windsor, Lond 11, Hamilton, Sar- nia areas, for instance, watched him on Tabloid. His message- that fish is high in protein and low in calories—was the kind of that money‘ can’t buy and ew indus- tries get the chance to profit

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Propellor Selection Important For Efficient Performance

The selection of proper propel- lers should not be difficult as very mu c h practical data from re- search exist in this field, but many fishing boats still have un- suitable propellers giving a low efficiency. This refers back again to the problem of estimating the correct speed. .

If a fisherman tells either an engine or a propeller manufa- turer that his boat is able to run 2 knots faster than it can, it is understandable that his new pro- peller will be of the wrong dimen- sions —- mostly too high a pitch — with the result that he cannot run his engine at full :r.p.m., thereby being‘unable to use the full output of the engine.

In this connection it is amusing to read certain advertisements for engines where a certain low hourly fuel consumption is claim- ed. A fisherman buys a new en- gine of a certain horse power and certifies that the fuel consump- tion is only so many gallons.

Knowing the specific fuel con- sumption of such an engine, it is easy to find out that the fisher- man is not using the full output

of the engine. There is also the

possibility that the engine manu-

facturer does not dare to let his

e n g i n e develop the advertised horse power and has limited his output in some way, resulting in the advertised low fatal total fu- el consumption.

CONTROLLABLE PITCH

Because of the difficulty in de-

termining speeds, also because fishing boats in fact sail at very different speeds in varying wea- ther conditions and when drag- ging fishing gear, the use of con- trollable pitch, propellers is re- commended. {In some countries, such as Scan- dinavia, controllable pitch propel- lers are almost exclusively used in fishing boats, but in most oth- er parts of the world there seems to be ignorance of their possibili- ties or fear that they should add mechanical complications, requir- ing large maintenance costs.

This probably» arises because some novel designs of controlla- ble, pitch propellers have been too complicated and have not got ov- eer their teething troubles. It is

|»s|7and Legislature Of 18 81 I Sought Fishery Award

From the files of The Examiner

"In the Legislature on March

28, 1881, Hon. Mr. Sullivan gave notice that he will move the House into a Committee of the Whole to discuss the compensa- tion due this Province under the

Fishery Award. “It will be remembered that

the claim made in the minutes of council, forwarded‘ by _ Davies Governmont,'and also in the Joint Address of both Hous- es in’ the session of 1879, was for $1,250,000 as the share of this Province in,‘ the ,1-1_alifa:<W,A-

To which the reply. was given by the Dominion Govern- ment that the Halifax Award was made to cover the period of twelve years, commencing on July 1st, 1873 during which the Treaty is to continue in opera- tion, and as on that date this Province became part of Con-

the

ward.

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rather remarkable that nobody tries to c opy the very simple types of controllable pitch pro- pellers used in Scandanavia. A point worth considering is that with a controllable pitch propel- ler a reverse gear is eliminated.

MAXIMUM POWER

The need for maximum power during trawling is sometimes ex- aggerated. It has been actually found in several instances during fuel measurement tests while trawling that only 50 to 60 per cent of the full output of the en- gine is used. .

It is therefore not always ad- vantageous to have a controlla- ble pitch propeller, because it is not always necessary to utilize the full output of the engine dur- ing trawling. A controllable pitch propeller does, however, of- fer good manoeuvering qualities.

The use of a shrouded propel- ler, the so-called Kort nozzle, has many advantages, especially for trawlers. It increases pull dur- ing trawling (normally by some 25 per cent) protects the propel- ler from the trawl wires and, with modern Kort nozzle rudders, the boats have an excellent man- oeuverability.

LESS PITCH ’ -

Furthermore, tests with Kort nozzles on trawlers have proved that these boats pitch less in a seaway and can therefore sail at higher average speeds.

Vertical axis (cycloidal) prop- ellers, such as Voith-Schneider propellers, are now being used more and more in tug boats be- cause of their excellent maneou- verability. It has been shown that such propellers, having the load- co-efficients common for fishing boats, can give the same effic- iently as normal screw propellers-.

A novel improvement is that the separate blades can be ex- changed from inside the vessel without docking. The price, how- ever, seems still to be rather too high to justify their application in the average fishing boats.

An active rudder, that is, a normal rudder with an electrical- ly driven propeller in a ring or nozzle, has lately been adopted

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for a number of German fishing (Continued on page 9)

federation, we had no stronger claim than any other Province

to a portion of the Award.

$1,250,000 CLAIM “On being thus informed, the

Legislature last session memor-

ialized the Queen and asked that not only might Canada be direc- ted_ by the British Government to hand over to us the.$1,250,000

claimed for our share of the a- ward for a period of twelve years from July 1st, 1873, but also that we should be compensated by the Irnperial ‘=~~.Gov‘e1‘11.ment.. for the’ use of our fisheries’ by cit- izens of the United States for the period of nearly -two years from July 24th, 1871, to July 1st,

1873, when at the earnest re-‘

quest ‘of the Home Government, this Island threw open her fish- eries to U.S. fishermen.

“The des-patch which was re-

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The Fisheries Inspection Lab- oratory with all modern facili- ties located in the Federal Build- ing in Charlottetown plays an im- portant part in quallty control. Their part is to carry out exam- inations of canned fish and to bacteriologic-ally examine lob- ster meat and other products. The Laboratory also assists the Inspection Officers and plant op- erators with technical problems.

Under the Fish Inspection Act standards of grade or quality have been established for oys- ters, frozen smelts and all types of salted and pickled cured fish. Before these products are offer- ed for sale, inspecting officers ensure that they meet these standards. This Act also provid- es for the control of salt fish and shuckins plant operations.

As a result of the ever in- creasing demand for quality and in an effort to increase consump- tion of fish products the Depart- ment has recently instituted an inspection program on Fresh Fillets.

On Prince Edward Island this work was‘ concentrated at Souris where the landings by the drag- ger fleet were examined for

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1 cup dry bread crumbs

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ceived from Lord Kimberley _in reply to the memorial, evaded answering this part.of the claim entirely, and we, tliust that our Legislature, in dealing with the whole question, will not neglect to press this claim against the Imperial Government, ‘who have treated the Island very shabbily

quality at time of landing and! during cutting. Up to the present‘ this program was carried out on a voluntary basis with the co- operation of the Industry but ev- entually it is expected that all -fresh and frozen fish will be un- der compulsory Government in- spection.

Inspection Department Is Vital To Fishing Industry

All fish processors in the Pro- vince operate under license from the Dominion Government and have their operations regulated by the Meat and Canned Foods Act and Fish Inspection Act.

The enforcement of these Acts is carried out by the Inspection Branch of the Dominion Depart-

ment of Fisheries. On Prince Ed. ward Island this Branch consists of eight Inspection Officers lo- cated throughout the provinpe and a Fish Inspection La . tory at Charlottetown, P.El,”$- land. ‘ All plants before receiving ,3 licence must meet certain «- quirements and during op ‘t- ions are under continuous ins - tion. To ensure a quality pro- duct at all times regulations re- specting sanitation and proper

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