LANDINGS AND VALUE UP

Gov't making all- out effor to expand: Island fisheries

“Island fishermen landed ap- | __proximately 63 million pounds of ; fish. valued at about $7,100,000, ade sair Fisheries Minister Leo Ros- siter reviewing the 1955 season. “Tt shou'’ be noted.”” said Mr. Rossiter, ‘‘that the Island’ fish- erv. ona vercentage basis, is more important than the fishery

. of anv other: province. including o

Newfoun@and.” -

“Our vrovincie! fisherv . eontet

butes approximately 10 per cent of our net product,” he said, . “while all of Canada’s fisheries only contribute one ver cent of the natione'’ net product” Commenting on the fishéries . picture for 1965 -Mr;— Rossiter stressed the efforts being put forth by the provincial ‘govern-

ment to develen the fisheries in- |#

dustrv of the province. “While it is difficult to match

the attractions of the more weal-|#

thy provinces.’ -he—states,_‘‘we

—have— endeavoured —to--_provide comparable terms within the limits of our resources.’

As an example he cited the in- terest rates on loans for fishing vee-rls. “Fishine vessel loans ate obtainable interest free in Quebec and at a rate of 3.5° per cent in Newfoundland,” said the minister, ‘‘but our four per cent _Yate..compares_favourably -with New Brunswick's rate which is similar and Nova Scotia’s rate of 4.5 per cent..’’

The catch this past year is 31.- 64 per cent higher than it was in 1964 and it was worth 23.21 per cent more than the previous year.

IRISH MOSS

The most amazing increase was in the landings of Irish Moss. In 1964 there were over 7.1 million pounds of moss land- ed and this -was increased in 1965 by over 140 per cent to 17,- 138,067 pounds. The value of the Trish Moss industry increased by 138 per cent rising from $108,- 131 to $257,535.

Another spectacular increase was in the scallop fishery, land- ings were up by 99 per cent and the value of the.catch increased from $67,462 in 1964 to $180,494, which isan increase of 168 per cent.

The backbone of the Island fishery, the lobster catch, was up by over a million pounds to 8,837,642 pounds having a land- ed value of $5,176,554. This is

~ $965,772 ‘more than in 1964°-"~

The fisheries on the Island in- ‘volve some 3,200 fishermen who have over 1,500 boats. Their cap- ital investment in boats and

__ €quipment amounts to about $5,-

Island fishermen annually make use of about 450,000 lobst- -..er..trars, about. 5,500. mackere] and _gill_nets,.some__2,000__smelt.|. (Gets, 2,000 tubs of trawl lines

i thousands of hand lines.

A breakdown. of the fishery in- to counties~reveals _that— there are 42 per cent of the fishermen in Kings. County, 21 per cent in|

in Prince.

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Queens and 87 per cent in Prince,,County.

About 52 per cent of the cap!- tal investment in the fishing in- dustry is in. Kings-County, 16 per cent in Queens and about 32 per cent in Prince County.

KINGS LEADS

Of the over $7 million catch last year some 48 per cent was landed in Kings County, 15 per cent in Queens and 37 per cent

A little over 50 per cent of the lobster catch is landed in Kings County,-over 76 per cent of the codfish landed come ashore in Kings County and Kings County accounts for about 97 per cent of the—freunder—landings.—-P-r-i-nce Countv is the, strong area in Irish Moss landings having near- ly 75 per cent of the Island total.

Mr. Rossiter- reports there is an increased interest by Island fishermen in the purse seining of mackerel. “‘Many—fishermen have taken ‘it upon themselves to equip their boats with seine nets,”’ said Mr: Rossiter.

‘The department is experiment- |

ing with a power block to pull the -seine nets according to Mr. ‘Rossiter-At-present—the—fisher- men pull the nets by hand.

During 1965 the provincial gov-

tory eatches. More research fs!

necessary An order to prove the worth of these traps."’ Mr. Rossiter said there would

“ibe further experiments under-

itaken in 1966.

EEL FISHING

During the:summer Mr. Ros- siter said that there were many fishermen interested in expand-

‘jing the eel fishery. They built a |:

,|new style of baited trap and ex-

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ernment and the federal gov- ernmett co-operated in exper!l- ments with circular plastic lob- ster traps.

“Initial. catches indicated the traps were comparable with the traditional wooden ones,’”’ said the fisheries minister, ‘‘but as the season wore on only a couple of ports were reporting satisfac-

periments_were —carried—out—in such areas as Vernon, Midgell, Conway and Tignish.

He said ‘‘the results .were jhighly encouraging to date and

ifishermen in some areas are

planning to do this type of eel! fishing commercially.” —__ Looking to the future Mr. Ros- siter saw much promise for the fishing industry of the province. He pointed out that the growing pains of the Georgetown com- plex were being worked out. He pointed with pride to the expan- sion of facilities in. _ Souris and hoped that tha coming year would see developments_in_oth- er parts of the province as well.

Barry claims LBJ

jtrying to keep

playing politics

By HARRY KELLY” WASHINGTON (AP)—Barry Goldwater charged today Pres- ident Johnson is playing poli- tics with the Vietnamese war by it at “a low level’”’ to save Democratic seats

tions. :

He claimed Johnson was pa ing to please both the hawks and the doves.

“We're not exerting our full air power against the enemy, and I don’t think that is play- ing fair with the men . . . being sent over to Viet Nam, ” John- son’s 1964 Republican presiden- tial opponent said in a copy- righted interview in U.S. News and World Report.

Congress returns today to face the South Vietnamese po- litical storm that broke during the Easter recess and as State Secretary Dean Rusk testifies

before the Senate’ foreign rela- tions committee.

in next fall's congressional elec-

Fishing violators _ given rough year

Violators of. fishing regulations generally had a rough year in ‘the Maritime Provinces as was indicated here by Ambrose —P. Fitzgerald, Maritimes head of the federal department of fisher- ies protection service.

“The past year,’’ said Mr. Fitzgerald, ‘‘was the most suc- cessful year we had in the work jof law enforcement.-since the ‘protection branch was organiz- ed.” His remarks were made at the opening of a four-day confer- ence in Halifax of federal offic- ials from area headquarters and senior department representa- tives from district offices throu- ghout the Maritimes. A delega- tion from Ottawa headquarters, led by Dr. R.R. Logie, assistant deputy minister-of fisheries for.

Th committee has been a hotbed of congressional criti- cism of Johnson's Asian pol- icies. But Committee Chairman J..W. Fulbright (Dem. Ark.) said he didn’t think ‘‘there will be any’ fireworks.”

The committee’s mood, said Senator John J. Williams (Rep. Del.) may depend on Rusk—‘‘to the extent he is frank with us

. . there is no use kidding our- selves, we are in trouble. We can’t correct a problem by ig- noring it.” :

The reason for Rusk’s ap- pearance before the committee is to support the administra- tion’s foreign aid requests. De- fence Secretary Robert McNa- mara will appear before the committee Wednesday.

The hearings are, to be tele- vised. nationally.

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In the Maritimes last year, 759 cases of fishing violations

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There were convictions in 722 cases“and fines totalling nearly $19,000 were paid. Six offenders were given jail terms. In 1964 prosecutions totalled 682, with 650 convictions. Twenty eight prosecutions instituted last year are still before the courts.

Mr. Fitzgerald attributed much of the success of 1965 law enforcement program to the stiffening attitude of many mag- istrates who imposed heavy fin- es, and, in some cases, ordered the confiscation of boats and motor vehicles used by offend- ers.

HARD: WORK ;

However, Mr.- Fitzgerald add- ed, ‘“‘we must not forget that it was the hard work on the

witness stand that made it pos-

pose these penalties.” The protection chief praise for the support given by fishermen and the fishing indus- try in the action taken by the de-

who deliberately broke’ the na- tion’s fishing laws.

“We must remember,” Mr. “that violations of fishing regulations are the work of a small minor- ity of fishermen. The majdrity of our fishermen— at least 90 per cent— both sports and com- mercial fishermen are law-abid- ing citizens—who recognize the value of our fishing resources.”

In his general review of the work of his service, Mr. Fitzger- ald ‘declared the current trend toward greater exploitation of fish stocks with new and im-

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of regulations under the Interna- tional Commission for the North- (a 13 nation. body of which Canada is Mr. Fitzgerald said 28 prosecutions were insti- tuted by his officers against 28 Canadian fishermen. There were ICNAF regula- tions specify a minimum, size of net mesh used to permit the es- eapement of young fish: Each signatory nation is responsible for the enforcement of this reg-

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enforcing those regulations on Canadian boats. To assist in that work, the fisheries depart- ment has now under construc- tion another patrol vessel to erate on the offshore fishing banks.

In emphasizing the role $ the protection service in safeguard- ing the- fishery, Mr. Fitzgerald declared. that the operation couldn't stand still. ‘‘Our offic- ers must be continually on the move,” he added.

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