' great industrial expansion.
ginpansion Poi*-ential Seen
by Minister Di Fisheries
“,\lt.lmu;:h the economy of F‘rl"cc ldrlward Island ismainly ALfl’l(?l,lIILll'al‘, we regard Fisher- ies as one of" the chief avenues of economic expansion. When one (‘0llSi(ICl‘S the volume in dollars of the turnover for the various activities that is particularly evi- dent. In millions of dollars, the Vélllle of Agriculture, Manufact- ures, and Fisheries, 1954 were as follows: $27,000,000, $23,000,000, $4.ou0,ono. -
“At first glance these figures mlélilt discourage one from the view that fisheries may be con- siderably and profitably expand- ed. The reverse is true, however, since the value of Prince Edward Island Fislieries cannot be pro- Derly assessed by an examination of past figures.
“We know that the Fishery of
. the Province has been built up
mainly around a very important and valuable product, ‘Lobster. The value of this onevproduct constitutes about 3-4 of the value of our total fisheries volume.
PRESENTS A CHALLENGE “Although the figures mention- ed above should certainly discourage us from the possibil- ities of fisheries development,
they" should certainly constitute-
and be; taken as a, challenge to attempt this activity.-The whole fisheries activity must be brought to constitute more of our econ- omic base. This can be done with- out neglecting o‘ur important shell’ fish fishery. ,
"Fisheries is perhaps the most logical way in which to expand our economy. Agriculture activity is intensely pursued and We are. not likely to be the object of any With. a coat line of 1,100 odd miles, however, all of‘ which is entirely productive of some or another fisheries product, it is perfectly logical that fisheries can and must be developed. _ _
“When one notes the changes brought about in recent years in production and marketing, one cannot help but be further en- couraged in this view. In 1950 the development of an offshore deep, sea fishery was commenced and
V with it the development off-rozeni
and packaged filletsashore.
EVOLUTION IN CATCHING
Prior to this, catching, proces- sing,. marketing, etc., ‘envolved- mainly around -the lobster. Catch- ing operations were conducted in 2,000 odd small boats; processing was handl by about 50 can- neries around -the shore; and landings were made at many ad- ditional places to the number mentioned.
.“The landings, brought ashore in small and scattered volumes, blended well with the earlier salt fish and canned production, but were not so easily ho-ordinated in the production picture of to- day». The product in most demand , today is the packaged fillet, froz- enq, . I
“The change in 'rfi”aIx<ketf-qn'efdg#’ ence took place gradually over”; period of years. ‘Eating vprefer-' ences and habits were changing‘ in one of our g-reagt markets, mainly the. United States,’ Great: numbers of people who brought, from European Countries their preference for the ‘ concentrated protein diet of salt fish, have now changed their preference with the awailability of many Udifferént. foods. ‘
FROZEN ‘FISH » This was accelerated with th development of another method of: food preservation, freezing. It was further accelerated by the com- bination of that development with
the transportation.
"With -this progression, salt fish became increasely difficult to move. And now, as we move into the age of the deep freeze and hasty meals, it is more than ever necessary to develop ano- their type of production, mainly the production of fresh and froz- en fillets. , '
“Although our numerous small canneries were very useful in the expanded production of canned fish immediately following the war, this situation did not lend Itself to the production of fillets or by-products where larger vol-
not -'
HON. DOUGALD MEICKINNON
umes and landings were neces- sary.
ENCOURAGING RESULTS ‘
' “The progress of this develop- ment has been most encouraging, reaching the point where a sea- son ago a dozen boats landed ov- er 10,000,000 lbs. of fish and brought a ‘total of nearly __$300,000 in new money to our Fishermen. During the past season the first boat launched to begin this pro- gram was completely paid for by its owners. . V ‘
“Although Offshore development has th-us far concernel itself with the 60 ft. dragger, active study has been given and is be- ing given to other lines as ‘well. Effort is being devoted to the de- velopment of long-iining for those ports where dragging may not be possible.
“Under active study at the pre- sent time is the development of the danish séine with the same type craft as is presently used in .gro‘und - fish dragging. Experi- ments have also been conducted in the development of ‘mid-water trawling for herring. Another ac- tivity to which considerable effort has been given is -the catching of herring or mackerel with p u r s e seines. ~ .
FISHERMANIS LOANS
“Within the limits imposed by a small Department and, staff, these objects are being-pursued actively and with encouraging re- sults. In addition tothis the Fish- ermen’s Loan Board of P r i n c e» Edward Island endeavours to ren- der significant help to the" Fish- ermen of t-he Province. . . _
“Their main assistance con- sists in loan=in_g the financial help necessary for Fishergmen to ob- tain boats and engines who are otherwisefunable to finance these projects. The Board and the De- partment endeavour to help the Fishermen to develop athorough knowledge of the economics of
been.’ given to the larger offshore
Ting extended to inshore opera- tions as rapidly as possible.
‘This study is conducted in con- junction with _t-he Markets and Economics Service of the Federal Department of Fisheries and re- sults in the Fishermen receiving a complete statement of his year’s operation. ' ADVANTAGES APPRAISED
“While it may be said -that our Prince Edward Island Fishery, with its seasonal na.ture, and ‘its distance from some markets, has certain disadvantages In Fisher- ies development, we think that this is more than offset by cer- tain other advantages which we do have.
“First of all we have a plen- tiful and in-tel.lige‘nt labor supply; a proximity to rich fishing grounds enables us“ to success- fully compete with our smaller wooden boats manned by a few fishermen, usually owners, this proximity to fishing grounds means. that average trips are usually educed to a minimum, in -the ca of the draggers some- thing over four days duration. _
“It means also that an extrem- ely high quality product can be produced with a minimum of et-
[fort and expense. It
their operations. This help ‘has-
~boa.ts~'fo1‘-'_ some timevand is be-
has often been said that we can have a pound of fish ashore, packaged, frozen, or canned, and on the truck before the boats of many other fisheries can bring it to dock.
“The fisheries developments now taking place added a very necessary complement to Island Fisheries exports. Long noted for excellence of its lobster, either alive or processed as canned or chilled meat, or its renowned Mal- peque Oyster, or its cured fish- ery products, the Island Fisher- ies now offer as well the very highest quality in fresh or froz- en fish. .
IDEAL ‘SITUATION
of a teeming resource the Island Fisheries is able to rn;at_ch, both
“Its proxi'-‘m_ity .to fishing grounds enables the use of small wooden boats, in the case of drag- ger, manned with five men That same, proximity insures the high- est quality of products.
“With the addition of this off- shore fishery to the Island great inshore fishery it is little wonder then that the fishing industry of Prince Edward Island looks to future, confident that great ad- vances will be experienced and secure in the conviction that it will play its part in providing the food resources necessary to meet great demands before us.”
DEPUTY’S ASS’T.
The appointment of Dr. W.M. Sprules, Special Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, G. R. Clark, as one of the Cana- dian’ members of the Internat- ional Pacific Halibut Commiss- ion, has been announced by Hon.
vJ. Angus MacLean, Minister of)
Fisheries of Canada. Dr. Sprules takes the place on the Commis- sion held by S.V. Ozere, Assis- tant Depty Minister, who has had to relinquish his duties as Commissioner because of the pressure _of, other departmental work. The appointment became effective November 1 of last year. . .. .
0
Bl" Of 1825.. “The Fishery Bill, being as its‘ title imports ‘an Act to regulate the fisheries of this Island,’ has passed the lower House of As- sembly. Its provisions are bor- rowed from the various acts of Parliament in force in Newfound- land for the regulation of .that. great fishery. ’ ,
“It gives the supplying mer- chant for the current year a lien on all fish, oil, etc., the pro- duce of the fishing voyage, af- ter paying the wages of the fish- ermen and other servants.
It protects all those engaged in the fishery from being arres- ted for debt, and from militia and road duty during the fishing season, and it exempts decked
vessels employed in the fishery from the usual custom-house fees.
MUST GO FURTHER
“That is all very good as far as it goes, but if ‘our legisla- tors are really desirous of mak- ing this Island the station of an extensive fishery they must ap- proximate_ much nearer the New- foundland system than the adopt- ion of this bill would carry them- _ “Similar laws with respect to. insolvent debtors must be in- troduced -in order to induce men of capital and enterprise to set- tle amongst us. ,
“This would be a most impor-
boat-keepers and others actually engaged in the fishery and to the merchants supplying them, for we would ask what merchant would embark in- so hazardous an undertaking as supplying fish- ermen on an extensive scale, when in the event of two or three unfavorable seasons and the con-
hopes should his affairs become embarrassed, all the gloomy hor- rors of a goal meets his view, prolonged, it may be, to perpe- tuity.
In order to gratify
-the revenge
MIMINIGASH RUN
“Situated as it is on the brink .
in quality and efficiency any de- — velooment which may take place. _
0 these waters and in 1950 a small
tant step,‘ both as it relates to‘
sequent disappointment of his.
Page 2
GUARDIAN-PATRIOT, FRI, Jan. 31st, 1955
Romance came to the fisher- ies of Prince Erlward Island when the National Film .Board chose North Rustico :s the site of one
‘The Fisheries have always con- stituted a most important part of the Island’s economy, ranking 'se- cond toi Agriculture in some years In order to further develop this branch of the Island economy, the Government reorganized a Fish- -ermarrs Loan Board in 1949.
In January 7th of that year,‘ Loan Board Regulations were set up under an act to regulate as- sistance for the re-establishment of fishermen.- The new board was charged with the administration of this ‘work and immediately turned its attention to problem of increasing the efficiency of fish-' ing and processing methods.
Studies were undertaken to de-’, velop a type of craft suitable to‘
dragger about 759’ in length was constructed. -
PROMISING FUTURE
Thesuccess of this craft was’ early indicated, but fisheries peo- ple were not P entirely , satisfied. After a year of operation with the first type of fishing dragger, another model was developed, slightly larger and estimated to. be more economical in operation.I ’ In 1951, three ships were built’ from- this model and have had a very successful operation from the standpoint of» developing this type of industry and from the’ standpoint ‘ of financial _returns ‘to the fishermen owners. This drag- ger has been widely accepted in the Atlantic Provinces and about twenty of these have been con- structed in other Provinces.
Continuing the work on boat de- velopment, a third model of fish- ing dragger was developed for‘ use ‘in shallower harbours around the shores and which would also make use of seining operations in the catching of fish.
This model has performed sa-; tisfactorily but was somewhat be- fore its time as far as shore de- velopment was concerned.
LARGER UNITS
Further units were added In,’ the larger 60’ class until the pro-'
or caprice -of an exasperated ‘creditor, or of one who perhaps
of its Perspective Series which man (Daniel
‘LOVERS VIIT BELFAST; CEMETEY
was later televised on a coast to coast hookup. The story of how a Winnipeg girl (‘Iris Krangle, Toronto) meets a Rustico fisher- I/lacDonald, Pic-
duction from these boats last
Lou) and the deep affection which developed between’ the young couple -during the girl’s short vis- it makes for touching love scene.
Fisherman's Loan Board, Great Help To Industry
lstruction of new «boats and en-
season reached 6:8 million pounds: from Island boats, and ' a total;
gines. Considerable experimental work
of over 7.5 million pounds at Sou-lhas been done in the field of im-
ris from all boats.
As the production at sea was being developed, so also proces- sing ashore merited the attention of our Fisheéries authorities. With the construction of the first boat in 1950, plans were undertaken to construct a small Pilot Filleting Line at Souris. -
As increased processing war- ranted, this line was expanded’ to the point where last yearover two million pounds of fillets were processed. ,
Along with the processing of fil- lets, the manufacture of meal was developed. This effort resulted in the production of nearly five hun- dred tons of meal during th e past season. ’ .
1
[OWNER OPERATED
The Government of Prince.Ed- ward Island granted loan assis- tance toward the erection of these processing facilities and through the Fishermen’s Loan Board men- tioned in the beginning granted loan assistance to fishermen for
.the construction a'nd purchase of
draggers. At present,_all “drag gers are owned by the fishermen who operate tliem.
This one industry is responsible for the employment of up to ,3" hundred and twenty people and is responsible for a total primary and secondary business turnover amounting to $300~i000 per annum.
Fisheries development was not over confined entirely to one ar- ea of the Province. In‘ Prince County financial assistance was given for the construction of a Smokehouse for the production of- bloaters. .
The first Smokehouse is now in its third year‘ of production-and a second Smokehouse ‘has been constructed in the same area.
FISH MEAL PLANT
[During the past years loan'-‘as- sistance was granted for the es- tablishment of a modern By-pro- duct plant at Souris which will
manufacture meal and ail from’
whole body fish or offal.
cooly calculates on the probab- ility of his victim effecting his escape, and by thatmeans mak- ing some unfortunate Sheriff re- sponsible for the sum he owes?
Misfortune will sometimes ov- ertake the most prudent and up- right persons, and it is Worthy
islature to pro"ide a remedy commensurate to the magnitude of ‘the evil-as it exists in this country."
Prince Edward Island Regis- ter, Feb. 5, 1825.
of a wise and enlightened Leg-‘
ilected.. The Fisherman’s L o a 11
}loans for the purchase and con-.
This Jllallt using the most mod‘- ,crn methods can-handle all types Eof fish not needed for good pro-» fiduction whether these types he ‘oily or non-oily fish. The capac- :ity ofthis plant is estimated to reach a hundred tons of raw ‘fish per day. » -
Although much ‘attention has ;been given to the development lot the offshore industry, the in,- ishore industry has not been neg-
gBoard has continued to make‘
[proving the efficiency of small
I
From a letter appearing the Colonial Herald. Dec. nl .1342, signed Robert Mearns, Car digan River.
“It would appear that I has been for many years a strong, desire in the neighborhood of Fleet Street, London, to get upl
“‘The sea-trout . fishing . in the bays and‘ harbors of Prince Ed- ward Island, especially in June, when the fish first rush in from the Gulf, is really, magnificent They average 3 to 5 pounds each.
“I found the best fishing _at St. Peters Bay, on the north side of the Island, about 28 miles from Charlottetown. I there ‘k1lled_1n one morning 16 trout, which weighed 80 pounds.
“In the bays and along the
land fishing establishment
To Be Fisherman's Paradise
an-
1330, (being then in London), thei
advertisement aPPC31'ed in
t of a ship-building‘ LII Prince Edward Island. Each per-
managemen
taken with the scarlet fly, from a boat under easy sail. with a ‘mackerel breeze’, and some- times a heavy ‘ground swell’.
“The fly skips frim wave to wave at the end of 30 yards of line, and there should be at least 70 yards more on the reel. It is splended sport, as a strong fish will make some-times a long run, and give a good chase down the wind.”
From ,Osgood's "The_ Mari lime Provinces: A Handbook For
coasts of the Island they are
Travellers." Boston, 1881.
British Interests Sought Estaiolisliment Here,
in a Fishing C0mDaI1y- In April, son would be req-u‘ -
to the hands 0 hundred
Company’s Fleet Street.
. Pounds. ’Ap'm ll-"ublic Ledger. statlng that twogbe made to the tlierepersons were wanted. I0 take Iheican
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fthe Conimgayl
North .
Shipbuilding and, _ officegshoe L.
"I found out the 0“-.
large brass
which I‘ did accordjn
it to say,
Dlate on thlesugk
- , saw‘ there a 1-_ E’ Early Anglers Found Island 3-l;V.;)il.3lO1...‘.cva.fi“.“....‘;f..;I,‘;,,
again
HONOR CANBERRA .1, ;. I 5 I 1,
LONDON (Reuters).m; . Aero Club Friday annoum
award of its, phy for -the’
aeronautical achi
1957 Britamm most 0 ;-‘ evemem
year to Canberra. jet
pilots Michael
ter Shirley who
titude record
Randrup am SBIZ 3,1,7 of 70,310,;
boat fishing methods. Small nets‘
‘have been tried from these boats, . developed
A small winch was which hasymet with. considerable success in the Maritimes.
An ‘effort has been made to develop the use of long lining-
methods using a power ‘gurdy to j. ' pull the lines. In the lobster,in- -' dustry, considerable thought and.
research has been devoted‘ to the
search for a metal trap. Inexpensive enough to be use-
ful to the fishermen and durable
enough to withstand sudden and _I
devastating storms.‘ ,
The future of the Prince Ed ward Island Fishing Industry is bright’ indeed. With the- tremen- dous resource of raw material at hand and with the most modern catching ‘and processing ‘methods the Industry can compete most favourably on the world’: mark- ets.
FISH STICK BURGERS
ll/2 pounds precooked frozen fish’ or shel1—fis_h sticks or portion fish. ,. .
‘/2 cup mayonnaise sing ' ,
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1?tablespoon chopped pickle.
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon chopped olives I
or salad dres-
DEPAR TMEJVT
by educatimml authorities across tlw comctry. Write‘- In The Queen ’s Printer, 0ttawa,fo1' flu booilels shown here. Available to the general public, 25¢ each.
Putting fasc/nazr‘/‘on into education
CREATING A GREATER public awareness of our coui1try’s fishery resources is one of the responsibilities of the Department of Fisheries of Canada. It: Information and Educational Service seeks to show present-day Canadians I how this natural heritage is being maintained for future generations through proper conservation and management. L I , , This worklis carried out through the daily and weekly press; radio and television; magazines; educational publications; recipe pamphlets for house-
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OF‘ FISHERIES’ publications are mad
ff
6 wasted »bum,,.ed round. buns . wives; exhibitions; permanent fishery displays; film and Iilmstrip showings; Place" frozen fish sticks in I and illustrated educational talks to groups of fishermen. ‘ , . Single layer in a wwemgreased Such IS the standard of the Department’s booklets that they have found 3'
baking pan. Bake‘ in a hot oven 400 degrees‘F., for 15 to 20 min- utes or until heated through and
crisp. Combine mayonnaise, on-‘
i-on, pickle, parsley, and olives. Place 4 fish sticks on bottom half of each bun. Top with tar-
tar sauce a.nd top half of bun.
Serves 6.
HON. J. ANGUS MACLEAN,.M.P., MINISTER
; OTTAWA CANADA
ready acceptance by school and other authorities. Most of this Iiiaterial is obtainable by students, teachers, private organizations and individuals. ‘I
PDEPAIRTMEINT OF Fisnsimasif
or-zone: R. cLARK,,DEPUTY MINIST
FISHER BROS.'I.TD.,
-PART PLAYED IN CANADIAN HISTORY BY THE FISHING I I INDUSTRY!
We Add Our Warm Words Of Congratulations To The‘? Fishing Industry and Extend Our Good Wishes For A’, ' I Prosperous 1958!
DISTRIBUTORS
Sanitary Cans - Fishing Supplies - Canned Lobster: - Mackerel - Chicken Huddie - Clams - Chicken - Oysters --
Salmon - Beef - Clam Chowder - Fish Cakes Strawberry Preserve.
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