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28 The Guardlan, Charlottetown, Friday, Feb. 27, 1958 tng cost of production to the fsh-

ae y . |erman. : . ® a ge Rt e show approximately $179,000 de-|4 Mest inetede tnFoughout the. | Fisheries Stand Eighth > [inte tadings ini were ularly inthe lest year of br,

somewhat over $5,000 whereas|to retain a net percentage of his the 1956 landings showed nearly|return cominsurate with this ex- this pansion.

Among Canada’s Exports |"

Hoa in 190, te a value of %,3| erable concern to us. Chief among ition solution might be that million in 1956. A substantfal/ these ONTINUED ON PAGE 7

the general outlook is Im suGGESTED SOLUTIONS .

By EUGENE GORMAN Deputy Minister of Fisheries A glance at Canada’s year book

for 1957.- 58 bears out the oft | repeated statement that Canada's Fisheries is one of her most val- uable assets. | The statistics for the year 1955 are as representative as any to bear this out. The net value of Canada's production at that year was about $15.8 million of which

| To be exact the fisheries industry a é ore. provided about 6-10th of 1 per- : er oa cent of this net value.

It is rather the export value of Canada’s fisheries that indicat- es its true worth in the Canadian economy. In that year Fisheries provided about 3 percent of the: total value of Canada's exports, ranking eighth in value.. = ;

In other words the fishing ‘in-| mately 16 million ars annual- dustry constituting a mere 6-10-|ly; and the next largest value is th of 1 percent of the total pro-| derived from the Cod fishery with duction yet. provided nearly three|over 14 millions of dollars. ne oe ne export va P. E. L LANDINGS

Both of these last named items EAST LANDS HALF contribute to the importance of The East Coast landed value of| the Atlantic Provinces as sup-

approximately $50 million for that year constituted about 55 percent of the total landed value of Can- ada’s fishermen, about 47° per- cent of the Capital equipment in primary operations; and we pro- duce about 68 percent of the ton- nage and 57 percent of the value of Canada's Fishery.

The most valuable single item

plies to export markets, particu- larly the U. S. Markets. At the moment this market seems to be expanding more rapidly than we are gearing to supply it. The development and expansion of production and processing fac- ilities to exploit this opportunity merits our most serious attention

at this time. Efforts already un-|

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in this East Coast fishery is|dertaken in this regard have) of course Lobster, at approxi-|approven very rewarding.

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Education and information is an extensive fish stocks and how valuable important part of the Department of __ they are as a basic food resource. Fisheries’ work—telling the facts about Canada’s fishing industry. Fish are a great national resource

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that our off shore fleet has de- URANIUM OUTPUT veloped to the point where it pro- vided, in 1938, \approximately 58 South Africa produced 7,000

This work is carried out through the daily and weekly press; radie and television; magazines; educa-

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ing of the Province. compared with Canada's 12,000 Chic" Haddie. ° : § “tpretiminary figures indicate| tons and the United States’ 9,000 wt ” | eee vast te this country’s economy. =. publications; recipe pamphlets ( Hi ' z = — = a = aa | Se eee for housewives; exhibitions; perma a | jthis s@ason was ma 27? mie ae se —_—- Ss oh . 83 ‘ a 5

X I tig sets 'The prelentnary | yours—depends on keeping them in : : fen S IS [ eetings od lf eg ‘the 18 Pnivonseags Distributors of plentiful supply: The educational ¢9¢ fishery displays; film and / i

es ' erating show that they brought fimstrip showings; and ilustrated x

program of the Department is designed to tell Canadians what's educational talks to fishermen

being done to preserve the nation’s and consumers, oF

Live lobster to Boston— twice weekly trips.

in over 10 million pounds. This provided a value to those fisher- | men of well over $300,000.00, and employment in the processing of their fish to the extent of $275,-) 000.00. |

“Tt is a privilege indeed, on *this occasion, to bring a message to the fishing: industry of this Province

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“As we glance over the statis- DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES

tical results of the 1958 season, “These fig ; ures are a tribute to | Fishermes. ness cca few mo gre ag a caghasergdaryy ye emeyplepascnrad aye Oe © In Busi Since 1949 @ OTTAWA, CANADA or.2ee ; s so hard and dilegently to provide y ; : ., litle distprbing, and still other the results mentioned. They cas- apes ' WON. J, ANGUS MACLEAN, M.P_, MINISTER GEORGE R. CLARK, DEPUTY MINISTER GORDON MacKAY

results should prompt us to renew- ed effort in the expansion of our

not help but encourage us to fur- |

ther efforts in the developmat | of our fisheries. |

- SEASIDE CAVES | Riverport in Lunenburg County, N.S., has large caves worn into the cliffs by the sea. '

fishery.

“We have much to be thankful for in, the 1958 season, both on | the National scene and in the Provincial picture.

“On the National scene we note that the landings from sea fish- eries rose about on percent to 1.88 billion pounds; but the land- @d value showed an increase of %.3 percent, rising to a value of $101.6 million to the fishermen.

“The chief cause of this tre mendous increase was, of course, the heavy landing of sock-eye sal- mon and herring on the West Coast. On the Atlantic seaboard . thé 1958 landing dropped 9.2 per-

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COD CATCH DOWN was 6.6 percent ow that of

“The cod catch was down 17-9) 1957, but the value increased. by percent in poundage and 12 per-|9 percent. It 4 cent in value from that of 1957. eons ae Storosins to not Haddock landings decreased also.

dropping 21.7 percent in pound-| ‘ age, but the value of haddock de- “ creased only. by 3.3 percent re- flecting the higher price for this oe of fish during the per-

“The lobster landing in the At- aA lantie seaboard decreased by 4.2, :

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