HALIBUTERS IN PRINCE
RUPERT FORMING UNION
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Following action of the Inter
national Deep Sea Fishermen's
Union in closing the Prince Ru
pert branch recently, the Cana
dian members have broken away
from the International unit and
ere forming their own halibut
union.
What effect, if any, the ac
tion will have on the industry
for the coming season, remains
to be seen.
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SALMON’S HABITS CAUSE
FORECAST ON LATER YEARS
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After gathering 13,643,000
salmon eggs this season for
hatching artificially—the largest
take in five years—officials of
the California division of fish
and game have forecast another
record number of eggs five years
hence, says a bulletin of the
American Game Association.
This long-distance prognosti
cation is not based on occult vi
sion, the officials said, but on
the age-old habits of salmon.
The fish hatched this winter
and released in early spring will
not leave the open sea and re
turn to the home stream until
after the fourth year.
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CROSSBREEDING PRODUCES
TMPROVER SALMON SPECIES
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A new species of the salmon
family will soon join the silver
hordes of the North Pacific, ac
cording to announcement from
the Dominion government fish
eries experimental station at
Cultus Lake, B. C., where experi
ments in cross-breeding of sock
eye and pink salmon have been
successful.
The new specimen, called pink
sockeye, is declared to be a pro
lific breeder and of high nutri
tion value. _
Brailed From
Other Papers
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Canned salmon from British
Columbia is given preference
over fresh salmon from the ri
vers of Scotland.
Ontario had a total catch of
fish in 1930 valued at $3,300,003,
market value, which is $300,000
under the previous five year
average.
Reports come glimmering a
Jong that a new salmon cannery
scheme will be tried out in Bri
tish Columbia this year—plants
will be constructed and ready
for operation by next season.
Halifax has winter education
al courses for fishermen com
mencing in January and run
ning for six weeks. The govern
ment provide railway fare and
an allowance of $45—course giv
en at the Fisheries Experimental
Station.
Japanese exported 188,000
cases of crab meat the first six
months of 1931. The distribution
was as follows: 119,000 to the
United States; Great Britiar,
50.000 cases; France, 10,000 and
1.000 went to Canada.
The British fish men are ad
vocating filleted smoked herring
as a new outlet for surplus
catches of that fish. Boneless
kippered herring will find favor
in most markets.
There are four buyers in Ket
chikan district looking for king
salmon, with not much salmon
coming in. The frozen kings on
the market are not moving so
readily as the cohoes.
The Wrangell Cold Storage
has cleaned up stock of cohoes
and shipped them to southern
markets.
Mr. Lucas, bookkepper for the
Juneau Cold Storage, has the
political bug buzzing in his ear.
Fishermen have reason to re
member anyone connected with
the Juneau Cold Storage,
SEA FOOD TARIFF TO FACE
COURT
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Federal court action against
Oregon’s recently imposed tax
against Washington - produced
seafoods loomed as a probability.
This was revealed when H. J.
Tillman, president of the Seattle
Fish Exchange, declared that a
special meeting of wholesalers
would be called to consider
means of combating the tax.
Battle lines probably will be on
the question of the constitution
ality of the tax which Tillman
declares is simply a duty impos
ed by one state against the pro
ducts of another.
Meanwhile, the Portland
Chamber of Commerce is at
tempting to conciliate South
western Washington fishermen
in order to avoid a threatened
boycott of Portland merchants,
according to advices from Port
land.
The tax levied by the Oregon
fish commission is 1 cent on
crabs and 5 cents on salmon.
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WAR HITS HERRING TRADE
British Columbia’s salt her
rng industry is suffering and all
because the Japanese and Chi
nese are having a little dispute.
Shippers in Vancouver were
alarmed over a situation which
has existed since last October,
following a Vancouver article
published in a Shanghai news
paper saying “Canadian salt fish
is a Japanese product. Do not
buy this fish.”
As a result shippers say, 28,000
cases, of 400 pounds each, are
piled on Shanghai docks, boy
cotted by the Cinese.
With more than $2,000,000 in
vested in the salt herring ii>
d.u;try, largely by naturalized
or Canadian Japanese, the trade
in the commodity with China
last fear amounted to $1,825,411,