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Ferguson Industries Limited of Pictou, N.S., are currently working on a contract to construct four 93 foot steel side trawlers for the P.E.T. fish- ing industry. Reports from company officials indi-

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the first trawler will be launched about April 23 with the second to follow a few weeks later. Shown here on hand for a keel-laying ceremony

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SUMMERSIDE — The Biolog!- cal Station at Ellerslie is also carrying. out an extensive pro- grram this year in trying to es- _ a -control against ship

. “This is a terrific prob- aa in the Maritimes in gener= al,” stated Martin Thomas, a scientist at the station.

‘“This worm has a long body- approximately four inches—and has two shells at one end’, he said. According to Mr. Thomas here has been a new chemical} produced which when dissolved

eliminate these worms. This is can be disolved in minirel epir- its. By brushing this chemical on the ship’s hull it is estimated that it-will_protect the wood for

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year are, LEFT TO RIGHT: Eddie ~ Gallant, president, Eastern Fisheries; Mrs. Gal- lant; Allan A. Ferguson, president, Ferguson In- dustries; Camile Gallant, secretary, Eastern Fish- eries; P-L Fisheries Minister Leo F. Rossiter and Deputy Minister Bugene Gorman.

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has to be combated is eel grrass on Maritime shores,” Mr. Tho- mas commented. “If this is found in oyster leases the first undesirable effects it creates is that it slows down water move- ments.and. settles the mud. This | the mud deters the shape of the oys- ters to reduce their value.”

Mr. Thomas ‘said the Ellerslie station has been trying for the past three years to find some way of controlling this grass both easily and cheaply. One ex- iperiment tested and. found agreeable is the use of the che- mical. herbiside 2,—4-D. He add- ed that this chemical hasn’t been given full recommendation as the station staff wishes to do

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proximately 150° men em- ployed on hourly rates of pay, earning slightly over $11,000 eer | week, plus staff members, Bath- urst Marine Limited gt George: | tcwn is a hive of industry and activity building a trawler fleet that will provide the fish for Gulf Garden - Foods. Limited cient here. Work is progressing on the construction of the first three trawlers in.a contract for the building of nine such trawlers awarded during the winter. The nine trawlers to be built under the new contract are of the 129 foot class. Three others are now at various stages of com- pletion and they are also of the 129 foot ciass,

The Gelf Grenadier and the Gulf Cunn were’ launched last "December and are now berthed wnere work on them has been carried out during the winter months.

The Gulf Grenadier is near- ing completion and engines will be started ;—with sea_|

will receive her sea trials.

landings

. Total fish landings in the Mari- time Provinces during March, 1966 amounted to 46.4 million pounds valued at 3.6 million dol- lars. -Included im these totals

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ae three eal will bring the fishing fleet of Gulf Garden Foods to seven and the com- pletion of the other nine, sched- uled to be built over. a. three | year period will provide a total of 16 trawlers to fish out of Georgetown.

BUILDING SLIP | A marine slip now under con-

PLAN GEMINI LAUNCH CAPE KENNEDY, Fila. Gemini 9 astronauts Thomas P. | a Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan will be launched into space May

National © inistration an- birthday Sunday. Soviet premier and Communist party leader, who was unseated |build about 60 ocean-going ves- in October, 1964, was believedisels a year.

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struction at Georgetown and scheduled to be completed this vear will provide facilities for the hauling, out for repairs of the large steel trawlers and this in itself will provide work for a large'number of men and as- sure continued weno yg In their last year of ations. Bathurst Marine Limited estimated that they spent some $260,000,000 in purchases in the Province. The impact / the Province’s economy.has been tremendous. Workers —at—Bathurst—Marine recently signed a new contract with the ¢ompany, through~their unions, which resulted in in- “creased pay and assured improv-_

management relations. are of a high standard. . contract signed during the }past winter for the con- -struction of nine trawlers will mean $2,500,000 in- wages for the company’s employees and it is estimated that the pur- chases of the company in. the province will amount to $1,500,- 000 over the next three year per- iod. This‘ fleet of trawlers will en- able the province to capitalize,

were 39:8. million . pounds of groundfish valued at 2.5 million dollars, 4.6 million pounds of pelagic fish valued at 100 thou-

en for March exceeded | average catch during | the | Years 19631965 by—-15~--million. | pounds and 1.2 million dollars. Groundfish landings during the | month éxceeded the average March. catch during the past three years by 13.3 million | pounds and one million dollars while pelagic landings were 1.1 million pounds and 16 thousand | dollars oe average. Shellfish | landings during the month were 0.5 million pounds and 152 thou- | sand dollars above the 1968-1965 | March average. The increased groundfish catch during March 1966, _ compared - last-three years, was due | arger than norma! ‘landings at cod and haddock. The larger than normal pelagic landings, compared to the years 1963-1965, were the result of larger- herring | ‘landings while the increased catch of scallops and lobsters

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Commulative fish landings for the first three months of 1966 amounted to 94.4 million pounds valued at 7.. million dollars. , The figures for the similar per- | jiod of 1965 were 90.1 million | pounds valued at 6.5 million dotl- | lars, and ‘for 1964, 76 million | pounds valued at 5.6 million | dollars.

Construction near complete

An experimental seaweed pro- cessing plant is being establish- ed at Miminegash, prince Ed- | ward Island, this year. A $168,- | 500 contract for .construction of |

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plant will be operated by the In- dustrial Development Service of the federal Department of Fish- | eries. A mechanical dryer for | Irish moss and other seaweeds is included. The federal Depart- ment of Public Works awarded the contract for the 60 x 100 feet ilding and a wharf to serve it. In its initial stages, the work carried out at the Miminegash plant will involve harvesting, cleaning: and preliminary pro- cessing, and experiments with weeds at various stages of their. life ‘cycles.

The end product of the plant | will be ready for the final ex- traction of alginate and carra- geenin, which are used as stab- | ilizers for such things as ice | cream, jellies, pharamceutical products, cosmetics, beer and | ‘tooth paste.

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Du Pont Reports | Earnings Boost

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)—E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. reported first-quarter sales this | year at a record high ‘of $789,- 000,000, a 10-per-cent increase lover the 1965 first quarter: but | | earnings were about the same As a year ago. | Dil Pont reported net income just over $102,000,000 almost

ljast year,” while earnings. per | share came to $2.17 on common ‘stock, just one cent higher than

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