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THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 2 FISHERIES ISA tests show need for monitoring CFIA, DFO downplay any problem despite positive samples found in wild salmon

the Canadian Food gered Nov. 8, when Con Kiley, the University of Bergen’s refer - Molly Kibenge, wife of Fred The joint statement by envi - Inspection Agency and acting director of aquatic health ence lab in Norway by Dr. Are Kibenge from the PEI lab, carried ronmental groups, signed by DFO last month tried for CFIA, told a telephone news Nylund, who confirmed that one out the research between August Georgia Strait Alliance, David T to slam the lid on conference “there is no evidence of the samples had tested positive 2002 and April 2003 but the Suzuki Foundation, Coastal reports of a potential virus known that ISA occurs in waters off the for the European strain of ISA. results were never published. Alliance for Aquaculture Reform as infectious salmon anemia (ISA) coast of British Columbia.” Kiley, together with Peter Molly Kibenge e-mailed Jones and the UFAWU-CAW among in Pacific salmon. But officials had He was responding to reports Wright from DFO’s reference lab Nov. 4 and asked for permission to others, called on DFO and the barely turned off their micro - made public by Simon Fraser in Moncton, NB, stated that the publish the findings but Jones province to undertake four imme - phones before news of other pos - University scientist Rick lab had re-tested the samples and turned her down, citing DFO’s diate steps: itive tests and a potential cover-up Routledge, that two samples of considered all the results negative. disagreement with the results. • Test all Atlantic salmon for were already headlines across the sockeye from Rivers Inlet had They acknowledged, however, The secrecy over the research ISA; continent. tested positive for ISA. The tests that results were “inconclusive” has brought even more interna - • Test all Pacific salmon hatch - At the same time, environmen - — on 48 samples provided by because the quality of the samples tional attention on DFO and eries, including upcoming tal and fishermen’s groups issued Routledge — had been conducted was so degraded. CFIA, despite the efforts by both brood stock; a joint statement Nov. 10 calling by Dr. Fred Kibenge, a patholo - But they declined to share agencies to suppress any sugges - • Test wild salmon, herring on both the federal and provincial gist with the independent World results with U.S. scientists, tion that there could be ISA in and other fish species for ISA government to begin immediate - Organization of Animal Health prompting widespread demands Pacific salmon. Appearance of the • Apply the precautionary ly on a program to test both farm laboratory in Prince Edward in the U.S. — including a bill now disease in wild stocks could have principle and ban all imports and wild salmon for ISA. Island. The samples used by endorsed by Congress — that serious implications for aquacul - of Atlantic salmon eggs. The latest events were trig - Kibenge were also re-tested by at there should be further monitor - ture because of the ISA link to Groups are urging people to ing of Pacific Northwest fish farmed salmon. add their voices to the statement stocks for evidence of ISA. ISA can highly infectious in via an online petition available at They also failed to mention salmon and killed millions of fish www.georgiastrait.org research that was done nearly a in salmon farms in Norway fol - The Cohen Commission will Holiday Greetings decade ago by scientists from lowing an outbreak in 1984. The also be investigating the issue of DFO and the Atlantic Veterinary disease then devastated Chilean ISA in wild salmon in a special to one and all from the College that found some 117 salmon farms over two seasons in three-day hearing Dec. 15, 16 and sockeye, coho, chum and pink 2007 and 2008. Although ISA- 19 that is likely to be watched BC Salmon Marketing Council salmon testing positive for ISA, infected salmon apparently pose closely by international media. although the strain of the disease no risk to humans, the disease Despite efforts by the B.C. BC Salmon Marketing Council found did not appear to cause could have a catastrophic impact Salmon Farmers to block pro - Box 28100 West Shore RPO symptoms. All 64 samples of on wild stocks if it were to mutate duction of documents, the Victoria BC V9B 6K8 Cultus sockeye tested were found in the wild. Commission has ordered that the Tel : 855.642.3551 positive for ISA. Even Kiley acknowledged that results of all testing for ISA after Cell : 250.466.4860 The scientists, including ISA ‘has to the potential to have a March, 2011 by the province’s [email protected] www.bcsalmon.ca Simon Jones from DFO, and Dr. serious impact on aquatic animal salmon farmers be made available health and the economy.” to the Commission. ALLIED A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year SHIBUILDERS to all our friends and fishermen. Best wishes for a safe Thanks for your support in 2011. and prosperous year in 2011

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THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 FISHERIES 3 Failed plan seen in sockeye decline Program to increase spawners retrospective productivity and the cause of the Fraser decline, the ing losses estimated at roughly socioeconomic analyses to inform submission cited evidence pre - $200 million because of lost fish - cited as cause of 2009 collapse future decision-making, and inde - sented by UBC Fisheries Centre ing opportunities, sockeye returns pendent oversight by a scientist Dr. Carl Walters and for - were spiralling downward despite n a final submission to Cohen smolts to such an extent that by Commissioner of Sustainable mer Pacific Salmon Commission higher and higher number of fish Commission, the UFAWU- 2009 the resource was unable to Productivity who is responsible to biologist Dr. Jim Woodey. on the spawning grounds. It was CAW and the Area G replace itself even with the com - the Auditor-General and who Walters, a leading expert on fish not until 2006 that escapement I Trollers pointed to DFO’s mercial fishery completely reports annually to Parliament on populations with UBC, testified levels fell back to maximum sus - 1987 Rebuilding Strategy — closed.” the social and economic conse - earlier this year that had biologists tained yield levels, the paper which resulted in excessively high The submission emphasized noted. Significantly it was that escapements on the Fraser system four main points that Cohen ‘This Commission’s answer... should state emphatically return from that brood year that — as the main reason for the 20- should consider when he sits led to the record run in 2010. year decline of Fraser sockeye, down to complete his report: that the well-intentioned 1987 Rebuilding Strategy In contrast to the Fraser including the 2009 run collapse. 1. The purpose of the Fisheries decline, Alaska’s Bristol Bay sock - The 84-page submission called Act and other federal statutes and created a situation where excessive spawner density eye fishery has had consistent on Commissioner Bruce Cohen treaties is to provide yield (harvest reduced and weakened the out-migrating smolts to such returns over the same 20-year to recommend that the depart - benefits), not conservation of fish period — the result of manage - ment adopt an “adaptive manage - per se. an extent that by 2009 the resource was unable to ment policies that are directed to ment system” for salmon harvest - 2. Maintaining maximum sus - replace itself even with the commercial fishery maximum sustained yield, the ing that would strive for a balance tainable yield (MSY) requires paper pointed out. of maximum sustained yield for maintaining an equilibrium in the completely closed.’ “It is clear...that American fisheries and optimum escape - ecosystem that produces maxi - managers fully understand the ment. They also urged the estab - mum sustainable harvest by quences of DFO’s harvest man - known in 1987 what they have unique biological attributes of lishment of a new Auditor- humans. This requires an under - agement practices. since learned about Fraser River sockeye salmon, particularly the General of Sustainable standing of some basic biological 4. A harvest management sockeye cycles “they probably damaging effects of excessive Production who would provide attributes of sockeye salmon, regime consistent with the statu - would not have recommended spawner density. Understanding oversight for DFO harvest man - including the density-dependent tory purpose of maximizing social (the Rebuilding Strategy).” this... they have turned the sock - agement and would ensure that survival-rate pattern that is the and economic benefit from the Although DFO has in the past eye resource into a highly produc - the sockeye fishery and all fish - fundamental ecological basis of Fraser sockeye fishery would take rejected the notion that the policy tive fishery, notwithstanding the eries would be sustainably devel - sustainable harvesting. into account the importance of an of maintaining high escapements same weak stock concerns that we oped for the benefit of all 3. Maintaining MSY in a fish - economically sustainable fishery could lead to consequent stock have on the Fraser.” Canadians, the mandate set out in ery divided into four run-timing to coastal communities, and the declines, a DFO Science Branch As part of the four main points, the Fisheries Act. groups and a multitude of CUs undesirable features of terminal workshop held in April, 2011 the submission out 37 specific Lawyer Chris Harvey present - (conservation units) requires a fisheries and individual transfer - finally acknowledged that it was recommendations for changes to ed the submission on behalf of the mixed stock harvest regime that able quotas (ITQs). “an important contributor to the salmon management. The full text UFAWU-CAW and Area G prevents excessive escapement of In pinpointing the 1987 Fraser sockeye situation.” of the submission is available on Trollers, whom he has represent - major stocks while avoiding any Strategy and high escapements as While fishermen were suffer - the Cohen Commission website. ed at the Cohen Commission. He unreasonable and genuine risk of also made a final oral submission extirpation of minor stocks. This to the commission Nov. 9 as he was accomplished in the era of the wound up months of hearings and International Pacific Salmon cross-examination of witnesses. Fisheries Commission (IPFSC). After 18 months of delibera - There is no reliable evidence that THTEH OE NOEN-SET-OSTPO FPIS FHISINHGIN SGT OSTROE RE tions following its appointment in it could not continue to be accom - November, 2009, the Cohen plished under a simplified harvest Commission will be facing a management structure based on mountain of expert testimony and biologically defensible escape - scientific papers in preparing a ment reference limits. Thank you final report for the federal gov - a) the structure and wording of ernment , scheduled to be deliv - the Wild Salmon Policy (WSP), ered in June 2012. augmented by its derivative, the At the holiday season, our thoughts There may have been many Fraser River Sockeye Spawning contributing factors to the decline Initiative (FRSSI), is inappropri - turn gratefully to those who have made of sockeye in 2009, the submission ate and has led to confusion, con - emphasized, but the underlying flict and huge losses to the Gross our success possible. It is in this spirit reason was the cascading losses Domestic Product of Canada. A caused by the 1987 Rebuilding misguided implementation of the we say ... thank you and best wishes for Strategy and the subsequent poli - WSP has undermined the maxi - cy of high spawning escapements mum sustained yield (MSY) Christmas and a Happy New Year. and reduced fishing. objective of the Fisheries Act. “In our submission, this b) we propose that the WSP be Commission’s answer to the ques - scrapped and replaced with a tion as to ‘Findings of Fact regard - restatement, in simple and under - from all of us at ing the Causes for the Decline of standable terms, of the intent of Fraser River sockeye salmon’ the WSP to provide for MSY should state emphatically that the while avoiding any unreasonable Pacific Net & Twine well-intentioned 1987 Rebuilding and genuine risk of extirpation.

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he call from Canadian 2005 she captured gallery, at 1011 Main Street. Fishing Company sixth spot in the hile it was A kilometre of so farther Texecutive vice-president council race and then fish quiet out north, former UFAWU-CAW Rob Morley came in too late moved up to second Won the vice-president Dennis Brown for a correction in the last issue, on her re-election in grounds and in the — whose paintings were the but it’s one that deserves to be 2008. On election plants last month, two subject of a Fisherman feature made for the record. night this year, Nov. ships people well known to three years ago — was showing In an interview with The 19, voters put her at & UFAWU-CAW his works at Portside Studios , Fisherman last July about the the top of the poll members were hard at just up the road from Canadian Oceans-Canadian Fish with 1,925 there was ISA in wild salmon. work in their own fields — Fish. His studio was once again merger, Morley told The votes. Even When her turn for a mounting their art on gallery part of the Eastside Culture Fisherman that the boats and better, question came up, Roxanne walls for the public. Crawl , a three-day event in processing operations of Jennifer Stasynszyn, a reporter for the Over at the Basic Inquiry east Vancouver that features the Oceans would now be owned Rice , Yukon News asked: “Will the Gallery on Vancouver’s Main work of dozens of visual artists. by Canadian Fish. But he called northern testing extend to the North, to Street, Julianne Drouin , a While the 2011 Culture back two days later to point out campaigner the Yukon River?” Still in full frequent UFAWU volunteer Crawl wound up November 20, that he “misspoke” when he for the T. THORKELSON damage control, Kiley and wife to tenderman and Dennis works regularly at provided that information. Buck responded swiftly: “No we’ll former Fisherman assistant Portside Studios, located at the Apparently the former Suzuki only be conducting our editor Michel Drouin, was corner of McLean Drive and Ocean’s assets will be managed Environ- investigation in Canadian launching her show Wet Coast Powell Street in Vancouver by “a different management mental waters.” Impressions , a series of oil (entrance off McLean Drive). group” with the Jim Pattison Foundation , Comforting to know that paintings of the Fraser and the Needless to say, both Group, the parent company of will be our country’s food health is in marine coastline. The show, Julianne and Dennis would be Canadian Fishing Company, joining her such capable and knowledgable which opened Nov. 26, happy to have new customers Morley explained. It seems the on council, RICE hands…. continues until Dec. 23 at the for their work. Oceans assets will be run as a after taking parallel operation to Canadian third spot in her first bid for a Fish within the Jim Pattison seat. corporate structure, rather than Over in the Skeena- Queen as a direct subsidiary of Charlotte Regional Counci l, Canadian Fish. long time gillnetter and T. Buck Suzuki staffer Des t has taken years to get final Nobels was elected by resolution, but the issue of acclamation as a director. He Iwhich agency has represents Area A, Port jurisdiction over occupational Simpson and Metlakatla, a seat health and safety aboard fishing he has held for many years. vessels — WorkSafeBC or Our congratulations to all of Transport Canada — has now them. been decided by the country’s highest court. On Oct. 27, the s recent headlines have Supreme Court of Canada indicated, a number of dismissed the appeal from Afederal government Osprey Marine , Jim Pattison agencies, including Health Enterprises and two vessel Canada and the Canadian owners. They had challenged Food Inspection Agency have the authority of WorkSafeBC been found wanting when it (formerly the Workers’ comes to vigilant protection of Compensation Board) to Canadians’ health from drug regulate fishboat safety but they and food products. But you were unsuccessful in both B.C. would at least expect them to Surpreme Court and the B.C. know the geography of the Court of Appeals. country they’re supposed to be With the SCC decision, the protecting. B.C. Appeals Court ruling Last month, as our page 2 stands — confiming story shows, the CFIA was WorkSafeBC’s authority. In quick to jump into damage fact, that has been the practice control mode over the N I F F

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CAW northern representative acknowledge that all results F Joy Thorkelson has been should still be considered Julianne Drouin (top) looks over her painting Fraser River Gillnetter at the launch of getting even more resounding inconclusive and further testing her gallery show Nov. 26. Below, Dennis Brown with his painting Rice Lake Meditation endorsements from voters. In would be done to determine if at Portside Studios during the Eastside Culture Crawl Nov. 18-20.

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Over the last two decades, DFO has severely restricted mixed- pikeminnow from the lake or date of sustainable use of the fish - reducing the numbers of ery for the benefit of Canadians, stock salmon fisheries in an effort to put ever greater numbers pikeminnow in the lake, we’ve however, it is essential that pru - of spawners on the grounds, ostensibly to ensure survival of increased the over winter survival dent economic risk management weak stocks, such as Cultus sockeye. But without steps to con - of these fish by almost double. So considerations form the basis for on average, we were getting about sockeye management decisions. trol other factors that affect survival, the policy has largely 22 percent survival from fall fry to Economic losses incurred by failed. In 2005, after DFO declined to fund a project to reduce smolts going out of the lake in the reducing harvest because of pickeminnow, a species that preys on juvenile sockeye, from following spring and now it’s more “weak” stocks must be weighed than double; it’s around 50 per - against the cost of “remedial” Cultus Lake, the fishing industry funded the program itself. As cent, 55 percent survival on aver - intervention such as predator (and Chris Harvey points out in this excerpt from his submission to age. milfoil) removal or enhancement the Cohen Commission on behalf of the UFAWU-Area G Trollers, Q: All right. (hatcheries, stocking, spawning MR. HUME: So indicating channels etc.). It is simply not it has demonstrated the importance of investing in fisheries. that predation is certainly a major good enough to reject such inter - factor in mortality during at least vention techniques because of he natural processes after much hesitation and northern pikeminnow from the that time period of their life his - cost when that cost is minimal that have a strong ten - obstruction, a predator removal lake. This has resulted in tory. compared to the losses flowing to dency to achieve an program initiated by commercial increased survival at the current Removing the aquatic preda - the GDP of Canada through T equilibrium are an fishing interests was allowed to densities of sockeye in the lake, as tors was the first essential step remedial inaction and fishery clo - important consideration for this proceed. we saw increased survival for towards restoring Cultus stocks to sures by DFO. If it is necessary for Commission. It is relevant, for MR. MORLEY: …The real those fish relative to years to when the level where they can again the industry to shoulder the eco - example, to the attempt to restore money, so far, for the major pro - no pikeminnow removal contribute to the GDP of Canada. nomic burden of intervention Cultus sockeye stocks to their for - gram that’s been undertaken, a occurred. The predator removal program then a means must be found to mer abundance. That effort is predator control, and even the Q:…So I guess what we can began in 2005. By 2010 the results create the incentives for industry faced with the reality that a new milfoil work, has come from the learn from this is that for popula - were dramatic — a return of to do so (i.e. DFO must be able to form of equilibrium has been commercial fishing sector, okay; it tions that are in trouble, low den - 10,632 in the dominant cycle that assure industry that the benefits established in Cultus Lake that has not come from the sities and spawners, this may be a had produced only 3,521 in the will accrue to those making the will maintain the stock at a low Government of Canada. way to help rebuild the population previous generation. In 2011 (the investment). abundance unless there is some Q: As we’ve heard. by increasing their survival. sub-dominant cycle year) the Lest it be thought that human form of human “remedial” inter - MR. MORLEY: And so the MR. HUME: Well, from my adult return was 6,521, a recent “remedial” intervention is unac - vention. Fishing on the Cultus Government of Canada, again, in Cultus Lake project, we’ve cer - record for this cycle. ceptable, it should be remem - stock has been almost entirely terms of your question about tainly seen the fry-to-smolt sur - DFO is committed to preserv - bered that that the 1987 eliminated but, like Northern complacency, is certainly the first vive. (It’s) work that’s not pub - ing all conservation units in the Rebuilding Strategy was itself a Cod, that is not enough to break place they turn when dealing with lished yet, we’re just developing Fraser sockeye system. Given the deliberate ecosystem-altering down the new form of low abun - an issue is harvest management, the data now. By removing the constitutional and statutory man - policy. dance equilibrium. because there’s no direct cost, but Remedial interventions used there potentially are considerable by DFO in a variety of situations costs to society and to commer - include stocking, spawning chan - cial, recreational and First nels, fertilization and predator Nations fishers, but some of the culling. Economic objectives sup - other case, and in Cultus, for port the removal of less valuable example, unless we do some of species (e.g. pikeminnow) so as to these other things, that harvest promote more valuable species management is not going to be such as sockeye. The argument is effective. based on prudent economic risk MR. HUME: In 2004, we did management — an argument that a mark-recapture population esti - nowadays has little appeal to mate of the pikeminnow in the DFO. lake and came up with approxi - In the case of the Cultus, DFO mately 60 to 70,000 adult north - O has adopted the “easy” approach ern pikeminnow in the lake. From T O H P

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THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 6 FISHERIES First Nations declare ‘no’ to pipelines More than 130 demand ban on tar sands oil exports by northern or southern route fter U.S. President tar sands oil, courting a new one tankers in B.C. northern waters. Nation’s opposition to tar sands Barack Obama (China and other Asian markets) On the one-year anniversary of exports is growing and has nearly essentially put a halt might seem like a good idea to the the Save the Fraser Declaration, a doubled in the last year. Whether A to the Keystone XL people of Canada. But that’s not gathering in Vancouver this week it’s opposition to pipelines or pipeline proposal to ship Alberta the case. Eighty per cent of British further detailed opposition to the tankers, it now spans from the tar sands oil south because of Columbians still support a ban on transport of tar sands products B.C.-Washington border in the enormous public pressure, one oil tankers in B.C. northern throughout the rest of B.C. from south to the Alaska border in the might think the Enbridge waters and First Nations opposi - aboriginal groups. Until now, the north. Northern Gateway project here in tion to export pipelines and oil declaration has been used to fight With the current Conservative Canada would be a done deal. tankers continues to grow. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway government’s public push for Thousands of people, includ - Last week the Union of B.C. pipeline proposal to ship Alberta rapid tar sands expansion and the ing many Canadian and American Indian Chiefs, which represents tar sands bitumen to the town of desire to diversify oil export mar - celebrities, protested the most First Nations in the Kitimat. Now more than 130 First kets it will be telling to see Keystone proposal in record num - province, passed a resolution North Coast Nations have signed on and are Stephen Harper is taking First bers and risked arrest. With the endorsing both the Save the effectively demanding a ban on tar Nations seriously. U.S now an unlikely customer for Fraser Declaration — in which Jennifer Rice sands crude oil exports anywhere Recently with the support of on the coast, including the south. the Conservative majority gov - more than 61 First Nations called The new declaration adds risk to ernment, the oil industry has been for a ban on tar sands oil pipelines Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand touting oil export to Asia in throughout the Fraser River its oil exports through expansion Canada’s national interest. In a Season’s watershed — and the Coastal First of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline recent CTV television interview Nations Declaration . That decla - in the Lower Mainland. Stephen Harper unequivocally ration calls for a ban on crude oil British Columbia First expressed his support for the Greetings Enbridge Northern Gateway pro - ject. Federal Natural Resources to all those working Minister Joe Oliver has been quoted numerous times endorsing to protect our fish habitat the project. Despite these endorsements, First Nations legal Season’s Greetings actions are Enbridge’s and other oil industry proponent’s biggest ITY FISH UN ER IE M S risk. With public hearings sched - M O C Community Fisheries uled to start in January of next year

D we can expect many months if not E Development Centre V E L E years of delays with this proposal O R PO Box 205, Parksville, B.C. V9P 2H4 P N T M EN T C E tied up in the courts. THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 SALMON HABITAT 7 Damage to salmon habitat mounting Yet Harper gov’t plans more ing claims in the Fraser watershed to salmon, increase gravel trans - tions, cement plants, landfills, active between 2000 and 2009. port and water temperature. All of contaminated sites, stormwater cuts to Environment Canada Gravel mining is widely dispersed these effects can move down and sewage. The harmful sub - with 450 operations in the Fraser through the system and negative - stances ranged from suspended almon inquiry commis - River system. ly impact salmon spawning habi - solids, endocrine disrupting sioner Bruce Cohen still Mine exploration investment tat. Construction activities may chemicals, to heavy metals and has months of sifting went from less than $50 million in also result in increased sedimenta - phenols. Fish exposed to these S through all the evidence 2001 to over $400 million by tion. toxic chemicals face reduced sur - submitted before he can set out his 2007. Residential, business, and vival, slower growth and poor findings and recommendations Forestry impacts have industrial development, as well as reproduction. The paper con - about Fraser sockeye. But the evi - increased since 2000 if you look at related road construction have cludes that this toxic soup in the dence itself forms a damning key indicators like the number of increased the amount of impervi - Fraser River has negatively expose of the multitude of impacts logging roads built and the num - ous surfaces in urban watersheds impacted salmon runs over 20 facing salmon and salmon habitat ber of stream crossings needed for which affect patterns of runoff and years. in the Fraser River system and those roads. Southern Interior the timing of stream flows. What has been the federal gov - likely all salmon rivers on the B.C. tributaries of the Fraser faced a 21 Increased extraction of surface ernment’s response to the wealth coast. Environment per cent increase in road-stream water and groundwater leaves less of evidence pointing to increased Astoundingly, while the crossings. for salmon spawners and incubat - multiple and cumulative impacts impacts mount, government cut - David Lane Road construction interferes ing eggs. The construction of yet on salmon habitat and salmon backs continue to the staffing and with the natural patterns of water more roads and buildings along runs? One would think it would be enforcement mechanisms needed flow through a watershed as water stream channels and lake fore - to bolster resources at DFO and to properly protect salmon habi - number of “high risk” bacteria drains across exposed road sur - shore areas reduces riparian vege - Environment Canada in habitat tat. It’s a deadly combination com - and parasites regularly found on faces, which can increase sedi - tation and blocks access to habitat. protection and pollution preven - pounded by the pro-development salmon farms that can be ampli - ment into streams, covering Agriculture is a major water tion. policies of both the provincial and fied in crowded net pens and can spawning redds and reducing the user and many salmon tributaries Instead, Prime Minister federal governments. transfer back to wild salmon oxygen need by incubating are drying up as water is extracted Steven Harper has cut 800 staff Technical papers submitted to stocks. salmon eggs. for irrigation. Important salmon from Environment Canada and the Cohen Commission on Much more research needs to In coastal watersheds, steep migration corridors are often the has pledged to cut up to 10 per - salmon habitat show mounting be done, but a look at the long- slopes and more intense storms most intensely used areas for agri - cent from all government depart - pressure from forestry, mining, term data shows that something cause more severe landslides than culture, particularly in the Lower ments over the next few years, urban development, agriculture, from salmon farms is having a in interior watersheds, bringing Mainland. amounting to $4 billion in cuts. hydro development, salmon farm - negative impact on wild salmon large amounts of sediment and Compounding all these habitat It’s time to call your local MP ing and pollution over the last populations. Says Dill: “The most debris into streams. impacts is increased use and dis - and say “enough is enough.” We decade. Indeed, it may well prove likely candidate is disease trans - Reports say that the headwa - charge of chemical pollutants need more, not less protection for difficult to pinpoint one singular fer.” ters of many systems have been harmful to fish, according to a the salmon habitat that is the culprit that caused the 2009 sock - A mining boom has struck B.C. severely disturbed over the last 15 technical paper submitted to the backbone of the commercial fish - eye collapse, but there is clear evi - and Premier Christy Clark is years, including the Pitt, Francois, Cohen Commission. ing industry, coastal communities dence of 20 years of cumulative pushing for further expansion. Stuart and Harrison watersheds. The sources are many: pulp and thousands of other long-term erosion to the conditions all Mining can cause a permanent The Stuart and Quesnel river mills, wood preservation opera - coastal jobs. salmon need to stay healthy and loss of fish habitat when a mine systems have both been hit by abundant. site or tailing pond is built direct - sharp increases in logging because Dr. Larry Dill was commis - ly on top of a lake or stream. of the salvage harvesting resulting sioned by Cohen to examine the Mining of gravel or placer miner - from Mountain Pine Beetle infes - impact from salmon farm diseases. als from streams leads to disrup - tation. 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THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 8 BOOKS Burrows’ novel ‘inspired’ by the DFO THE RIVER KILLERS. Vancouver, doing readings from re-assigned from a desk job in memory takes on sinister over - By Bruce Burrows. his novel The River Killers, newly Ottawa to coordinate the Central tones. At the time, Danny’s ship - Touchwood Editions, published by Touchwood. With Coast roe herring fishery. But mate Billy had taken the mutant Victoria, 2011. its cast of fishermen and DFO before he leaves Ottawa he hap - fish — dubbed Igor by the crew — officers and action moving from a pens to be searching the DFO down to the DFO research lab in ong-time Sointula fisher - seine opening in Johnstone Straits database and stumbles across an West Vancouver for testing. But man Bruce Burrows has to the remote inlets of the Central image of a “frankenfish” — a Billy was never seen again and the been many things over his Coast, it’s a story that’s bound to photo of the same mutant trans - DFO lab claimed they’d never L life: gillnetter, seiner, intrigue anyone who has made a genic salmon that he and other seen the strange fish he was carry - stream monitor, and on-board living from fishing. members of the crew on the ing. observer. Now you can add mys - Former fisherman Danny Maple Leaf caught during the Burrows moves the plot along tery writer to that résumé. Swanson is a DFO officer who seine opening in the Straits in effectively, bringing in Bella Bella Burrows has already covered can’t abide the bureaucrats and 1991. RCMP officer Louise Karavchuk the circuit from Prince Rupert to not unexpectedly, finds himself Suddenly, what has just been a as investigator and Swanson’s love interest, as his key character begins to uncover the pieces of what may be a conspiracy affect - ing the coast. The dialogue, filled with banter and smart-assed com - mentary, captures the rough- edged style of 1950s mystery nov - els. So does the tone of Danny’s narrative that threads throughout the novel: “The dull Ottawa sky was dimming into dusk. A metaphor for the entire soulless city and my life in it. I pushed my chair back and thought. Hard.” Anyone who’s worked the coast in the salmon fishery — and seen the bureaucracy at work — will be in familiar waters with Burrow’s writing, as he unveils a story that’s just plausible enough to make the mystery work. As the Globe and Mail noted: “Bruce Burrows, ex- fisherman and commercial diver, knows his oceanography, and that gives this debut novel, featuring Danny Swanson of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, considerable credibility. Add a terrific Vancouver location and a plot with a solid ecological- disaster scare, and you have a very good first book. Danny seems des - tined to return, which makes Burrows a writer to watch.” When he does return, just one note to the editor: the crew on the Maple Leaf would have had to “brail” the fish from the net, not “braille” them — unless of course they were blind. —Sean Griffin Season’s Greetings

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THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 FISHING SAFETY 9 PFD Day on Fraser River a safety hit

his past salmon season, Prizes were distributed through - FishSAFE went looking out the opening as we were able to for an opportunity to reach most fishermen from T raise awareness about Whonnock to the lightship. It was the importance of wearing a per - a very successful event from an sonal flotation device (PFD. It was education and awareness point of O T O

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all the fishermen on the river that H S I overboard in B.C. None of them day who wore their PFDs. F was wearing a PFD. — John Krgovich Harold Wulff on the water on PFD Day, during the Fraser River gillnet opening Aug. 9. The first sockeye opening on the Fraser River Aug. 9 was the FROM LIFE RAFTS TO Thanks for your All the best in opportunity that we needed, not business in 2011. the New Year. only for the fishermen who were FIRE SAFETY - WE HAVE IT ALL busy getting ready for this much needed, albeit short first opening, tings DBC Marine Safety Systems but also for the FishSAFE team ’s Gree Season and Survitec-Zodiac members who were looking for an Liferafts opportunity to create some posi - manufacture the most tive awareness around the wearing comprehensive range of PFDs. of life rafts on the While the fishermen scram - market today. bled to load nets and gear, Before heading offshore, FishSAFE scrambled to create an be safe and plot a course idea that would put a positive light for DBC. on wearing a PFD while fishing. We decided to award a prize for everyone that we spotted on the Air-Sea Fire & Safety Division SUPPLY/INSTALL/SERVICE river that day who was wearing • Fire Systems (CO2, Halon Alternative) any kind of PFD. Thus PFD Day • Fire Extinguishers & Brackets on the Fraser was created. • Lifejackets • EPIRBs Gina Mackay, Program Manager of FishSAFE, worked on DBC Marine Safety Systems 101 –3760 Jacombs Road, Richmond, B.C. the logistics of putting on such an Marine Safety Canada V6V 1Y6 Systems event while creating posters, prize Tel: 604-278-3221 Fax: 604 278-7812 1-800-931-3221 packages, and communicating the E-mail: [email protected] event to all the associations www.dbcmarine.com involved in the fishery. John Krgovich and Ralph Roberts took the “feet on the dock” approach to the event and visited every dock they could find from Steveston and Ladner to the upriver docks of Annieville and Albion. On the docks, the two FishSAFE safety advisors not only promoted the PFD Day event, but they also took the time to discuss the benefits of wearing PFDs and to talk with fishermen about their plans should they happen to fall overboard. We covered all the details we could — everything from how to prevent falls by using guard rails and keeping decks neat, to how they planned to reboard should they be fishing alone, through the use of ladders, hanging tires or rope slings. The day of the event started with the help from Mas Shima of Ocean Fisheries Ltd. who donat - ed his time and their vessel, the Oceanette, to transport the FishSAFE team around the river. It was nice to see that there were many UFAWU-CAW fishermen wearing their PFDs and showing leadership by creating a example for others as we got to give Paul Kandt, Harold Wulff, John Hodanic and others prizes for set - ting such a positive example. THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 10 SHRIMP Bycatch proposal still just on paper Common sense proposal for daylight shrimp fishing rule doesn’t make it to a vote

This fall’s Shrimp by fishery that I’ve seen fishing at So the shrimp catch decreases and 12, all were very much in favour. Trawl Sectoral and the night when I was heading in to the unwanted bycatch increases The only concerns voiced were Pacific Coast shore may not have caught on. three- or four-fold. It’s very about the time frame: would it be T Shrimpers’ Cooperative Shrimp fishermen have done a destructive to juvenile finfish that from 0700 to 1900 hours? Or Association’s Shrimp by Trawl lot of hard work to reduce bycatch would be targeted as adults in would it be from sunrise to sunset, Caucus meetings had some inter - in both the beam and otter trawl other fisheries. Moonlit nights recognizing that daylight hours esting twists to them. fisheries with very impressive also increase prawn (three-spot are different in summer and win - A proposal was put forward to results. But one of the main meth - shrimp) and sidestripe catches in ter? me by an experienced and respect - ods I grew up with has been avoid - addition to unwanted finfish Safety comes into play as well. ed shrimper from a well-known ance of the unwanted. The few bycatch, creating more sorting It’s too easy to get into trouble family of shrimp fishermen. James times that I tried a night to fulfill and quality problems. when you’re night fishing, espe - Kitagawa, skipper of the Star an order before I headed home, I I decided to take the idea down cially when handling problems Gazer, asked that an experimental ended up with a lot of unwanted to the docks to see what kind of with gear, such as a log in the net. “daylight hours only” limit for finfish to sort and discard, most Shrimp feedback I would get. The results To me, daylight fishing makes log - Areas 28 and 29 be tabled at the them dead. The later I hauled, the surprised me. I expected that most ical sense out of experience. caucus for consideration. At first, worse it got. Joe Bauer would be against it but of the Compliance could be an issue, I thought, that’s what we always In my experience, shrimp beamers and one door boat fisher - since DFO budgets cuts will like - done. But then I realized that migrate upwards in the water col - to feed while finfish become more man that I was able to speak to ly mean that no money will be many of the newer entrants to the umn to about 20 fathoms at night active at night on the ocean floor. before taking it to the caucus Oct. available to enforce any new reg - ulation. But I think most shrimpers would comply on their own just to avoid the sorting prob - lems. Most of us have always tried to have our gear hauled by sunset to avoid unwanted bycatch, but you may always have some cheaters. On Oct. 12, I presented it to the caucus meeting as requested. But I couldn’t get a seconder so it was dropped, at least for the moment. Late in the afternoon, I was allowed time to bring the issue up at the Shrimp Sectoral meet - ing, but since it didn’t have a sec - onder, those at the meeting weren’t able to put the matter to a vote. One glitch was that the other beamer, Ray Silvey, skipper of the Streaker, couldn’t make it to the meeting because he was out taking part in the chum fishery. He had phoned in with the hope of having the meeting re-scheduled but wasn’t successful. You can’t expect a fisherman to jump and lose his valuable fishing time just to attend a meeting. We all have costs to meet. I know Ray would have sup - ported the proposal or at least sec - onded it to open it up for discus - sion. That brings up another con - cern: the biggest majority of the Shrimp by Trawl licence holders are beam trawlers, but the major - ity of the seats on the Caucus and Sectoral are otter (door) trawlers. When the Sectoral was first set up, because of the large number of shrimpers of Vietnamese origin, we pushed to ensure that there was a voice for them. But, alas, that seat is still empty and needs to be filled. Democracy doesn’t work if we all take a “let George do it” attitude. It seems from the Caucus meeting and my conversations with fishermen on the docks that the proposal was popular with the beam trawlers but not with the door boats. If the issue isn’t considered again in the future, we will have gone through a lot of work to reduce bycatch only to have one of the most logical ways of avoidance rejected. UFAWU 50TH ANNIVERSARY

THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 MARINE REGS 11 Sorting out marine certification regs Transport Canada Marine Safety before the MPR came into force or not more than 12 metres LOA, (before July 1, 2007).To get a cer - you are not required to hold a cer - planning an outreach campaign tificate of service as a master, you tificate if you fish within 25 nauti - must have experience as a master. cal miles of shore and, in certain was down in Ottawa last master of any fishing vessel to For the certificate of service as a cases, within 50 nautical miles of month for the Canadian hold: watchkeeping mate, you must shore. You may complete and keep Marine Advisory Council • a Masters certificate; have experience keeping watch. on board a Declaration of at least I (CMAC), where there were a • a Small Vessel Operators Some training is also required. seven fishing seasons along with number of initiatives and updates Proficiency (SVOP) training Training depends on whether you official documents such as testi - on regulations that will affect fish - certificate; have at least seven fishing seasons monials of sea service, a letter ermen. • a Pleasure Craft Operator or less than seven fishing seasons. from an association or owner, dis - Card (PCOC) or You must renew these certificates charge book or fisherman’s book - National outreach campaign • a declaration of at least seven every five years. let as proof of seven fishing sea - The first is a Transport Canada fishing seasons as master of a The Small Vessel Operator sons acquired before July 1, 2007. Marine Safety (TCMS) outreach fishing vessel of up to 15 Safety Proficiency training certificate If you do not hold such docu - campaign, which will involve a gross tonnage or not more (SVOP) is obtained by taking a ments, you must have a mobile marine safety exam center than 12 metres LOA. Darrell Enger 26- hour training course at a rec - Commissioner of Oaths authenti - that will reach fishermen in their Requirements depend on the ognized institution The SVOP is cate your declaration form. communities. gross tonnage (GT) and length You must renew these certificates good for life. Fishermen will be able to find overall (LOA) of your vessel, and every five years as well as hold a The Pleasure Craft Operator Transitional period out what certificate or training the type of voyage you make. The medical certificate, which is valid Card (PCOC) is accepted only for Anyone who began a certificate they need to operate their fishing regulations for vessels with a LOA for two years. operating in sheltered waters or of competency under the old vessels, and what they need to get over 15 metres are currently in Certificates of service include within two nautical miles from MCR (Marine Certification their certification and training. effect. Regulations covering ves - Certificate of service as a Master shore, near coastal voyage, class 2. Regulations) has until July 1, 2012 They’ll also be able to meet with sels with a LOA of 12 metres or of a fishing vessel of less than 60 The PCOC is valid for life. to complete it. This means if you fishermen’s association represen - more will come into effect Nov. 7, gross tonnage and Certificate of passed one or more exams towards tatives, training school represen - 2012 and those covering vessels Service as Watchkeeping mate of Declarations of seasons a marine certificate before July 1, tatives as well as TCMS staff. with a LOA six metres or more a fishing vessel of less than 24 If you already had at least seven 2007 you have until July 1, 2012 When it comes to certification, will be effective Nov. 7, 2015. By metres in length overall. These fishing seasons before July 1, to complete the certificate with - fishermen will be able to check if Nov. 7, 2016, the regulations will certificates are for people who 2007, and work on a fishing vessel out losing credit from the exams the requirements can be reached, cover vessels of all lengths. already had 12 months of service of not more than 15 gross tonnage already written. obtain a Certificate of Service, Certificate of Competency or a Types of certificates Declaration of seven fishing sea - There are different types of sons, apply for a CDN number certificates and declarations that and have their sea service enable fishermen to meet the approved. Marine Personnel requirements. TCMS staff are planning for Certificates of competency Pacific Region sessions in January include Fishing Master, Fourth and February, 2012 Class, and Watchkeeping Officer There were also some updates of a fishing vessel of less than 24 on regulations, including the metres in length overall. To get Marine Personnel Regulations these certificates, you must pass (MPR), which came into effect on exams and meet other training July 1, 2007. They require the and physical fitness requirements. Season’s Greetings Heads-Up Navigation Providing Classroom Courses on Vancouver Island We’ll travel to your location to train MED A3, SVOP, PCOC, ROC-M Season’s Greetings 1-877-655-4656 • 1-250-704-0325 [email protected] www.headsupnav.com and best wishes for the New Year WE WISH TO THANK ALL FISHERMEN FOR THEIR SUPPORT THIS PAST YEAR. to all workers and retirees A A A A A A A A A A ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS in the fishing industry IN THE NEW YEAR.

I Four marine ways, lifting Working on behalf of shoreworkers capacity up to 800 tons I Blasting and tendermen since 1991 I Power Washing I Painting 326 –12th Street SHOREWORKERS’ I Marine Repairs New Westminster, BC PENSION I CWB Certified Welders V3M 4H6 PLAN Tel: 604-519-3636 FRASER SHIPYARD Fax: 604-524-6988 and INDUSTRIAL CENTRE LTD. Sandra Gertsch, Administrator 61 DUNCAN STREET Tel: 604-540-1699 NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. V3M 5G3 Fax: 604-540-1677 THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 12 FEATURE Putting the spotlight on income inequality — and Canadian banks

he tents may have come down in some of the hundreds of Occupy sites across the continent and around the world. T But the issue that first brought people into the streets of New York’s Wall street — growing income inequality — continues to strike a chord with working people. Pensioners, workers, the unemployed and those on assistance programs are all seeing their real incomes decline while those in the top 10 per cent of income earners command an ever-greater share of the country’s economic wealth. Just weeks before the protests began, the Conference Board of Canada stated in a new report that income inequality is growing faster in Canada than it is in the U.S. Yet even in this country, as Jim Stanford points out below, the big banks were also subsidized by government. The CAW was among the many unions to call for support of the Occupy protest and to join rallies across Canada Oct. 15. On Oct. 29, CAW economist Jim Stanford spoke to Occupy N

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and affluence. In the first place, Canadian ultra-low-interest loans, at a point S I And what an amazing commu - banks were bailed out — and in a in time when the banks could not F Occupy protests have highlighted the one per cent of nity we have formed here. big way. Check the record: attain this financing from normal wealthy income earners whose share of national income On behalf of the CAW and the At the end of 2008, and the commercial sources because of in Canada has doubled since the late 1970s. Canadian Centre for Policy beginning of 2009, Finance the global crisis. Alternatives, let me begin by Minister Jim Flaherty and other They needed it. They got it. It called a “capital gain.” lems we face. Is further enhancing thanking all of you for what you federal officials moved heaven and was a bail-out, pure and simple. In Canada, you only have to the after-tax profits of the finan - are doing and what you are build - earth to help Canada’s banks. So for the banks and their exec - declare half your capital gains cial industry, really the top prior - ing — the political and moral Flaherty implemented a new pro - utives to lecture Canadians, and income on your tax return. It’s ity? Really the most important space you have opened up through gram called the Extraordinary our governments, about the need called “partial inclusion.” thing for Canada to spend $3 bil - the Occupy movement these past Financing Framework, or “EFF” to be prudent and fiscally respon - If you flip hamburgers in a hot, lion on per year? few weeks. for short. sible and tighten our belts, is the greasy fast food restaurant all day, Of course not. But in our soci - There’s no better place than most offensive thing we could you have to declare every penny of ety, it’s not priority that deter - right here to talk about what’s Subsidies for the banks possibly hear. your hard-earned income on your mines where money is spent. It’s gone so terribly wrong in our soci - It consisted of many different If it weren’t for Canadian gov - tax return. But if you flip stocks power. ety: about the enormous and ways to help the banks — these ernments and taxpayers, they and bonds all day in one of these So banks are protected and immoral contrast between what powerful, pru - would quite possibly be out of towers, you only declare half. subsidized, and bailed out when we see here on Bay Street, and dent banks — business. That’s immoral. It’s inefficient: needed. But what do banks actual - what things are like where most during their So the banks were bailed out, because it encourages gambling ly do, in return for all that Canadians — the 99 per cent of hour of need. pure and simple. And moreover, over real production. But most of money? What do bankers actual - Canadians — live and work, down Buying back they continue to be coddled and all it’s offensive, when these subsi - ly produce? on Main Street. mortgages in protected and subsidized by the dized fat-cats lecture the rest of us The practical answer, in con - You know about work. About order to inject state. about tightening our belts. crete terms, is simple: nothing. production. About sharing. And cash into the They are protected against for - Same goes for across-the- They produce nothing. about sustaining. banks’ coffers. STANFORD eign takeovers. board corporate tax cuts. The fed - In that, the banks are different They stand around throwing Providing huge loans, at near- Tell me, if we can protect our eral corporate income tax rate has from the real economy, where darts at the dartboard, to pick the zero interest rates, from the Bank banks against foreign takeovers, been cut almost in half since 2000, hard-working people like you and next stock they’re going to buy. of Canada, when commercial why can’t we protect our land, and from 29 per cent to 15 per cent. I produce actual, concrete goods Proving every day that while gov - lenders wouldn’t dare. Providing our resources, and our factories, Tell me, have any of you had your and services that are useful. ernment may or may not be able other lines of credit, including and our jobs against foreign tax rates cut in half since 2000? I Banks, and the financial sector to pick winners, they can’t be any those in U.S. dollars. And backing takeovers? Why is it protectionist didn’t think so. But these banks more generally, don’t produce worse at it than the stock market the whole thing up with very to protect people, but not protec - have. goods and services that are useful is! weird forms of collateral — or tionist to protect banks? in their own right. They produce Work. Production. Sharing. sometimes no collateral at all. They are protected against Rates cut for finance sector paper. And then they buy and sell Sustaining. That’s the basis of real For example, the Bank of crises of confidence by an exten - Those cumulative tax cuts paper, for a profit. economics, the real job of improv - Canada was willing to accept sive public deposit guarantee sys - (along with provincial rate cuts) Here’s a little economic lesson. ing living standards and protect - asset-backed commercial paper, tem, and a public mortgage insur - have saved the financial sector You can’t live off paper. You need ing the environment. or ABCP, from the banks to back ance program that eliminates over $10 billion per year. Just the food, clothing, and shelter to sur - Ever since the Occupy move - up some of these emergency most of the risk of their lending. new tax cuts that the Harper gov - vive. And since we are human ment came to Canada — even loans. And they receive enormous ernment implemented since 2006 beings, not animals, we need before that, actually — there’s If you owned ABCP as an indi - subsidies delivered through alone (cutting the federal rate more: we need education, and cul - been an enormous myth propa - vidual, you couldn’t spend it. It Canada’s distorted tax system. from 21 per cent to 15 per cent), ture, and recreation, and enter - gated that these guys here on Bay was just paper in your pocket. But Here’s just one example: capi - put another $3 billion per year tainment, and security, and mean - Street — the Canadian banks — the banks held ABCP, and they tal gains taxation. If you make into the pockets of the banks. ing. Those are the fundamentals did nothing wrong. were able to convert it into cold money by buying and selling an Tell me, looking around of economic life. Not paper. Our banks are strong and safe, hard cash, courtesy of the Bank of asset, your speculative profit is Canada today, and all the prob - How do banks create their THE FISHERMAN, DECEMBER 2011 FEATURE 13 ‘Crisis will occur again, unless we change the rules’ paper? Let me put it bluntly again: credit system, together with the pened before. And it will happen the banks is not enough. They create it out of thin air. It is speculative motive, creates tur - again. The current crisis was no What we ultimately have to do is not an economic exaggeration to moil and destruction with each unfortunate accident, no “perfect take them back. There’s nothing state that the private banking sys - successive financial bubble. storm.” This crisis is simply par magical about creating credit out tem has the power to create Without massive injections of for the course, for a system that of thin air. There’s no special tech - money out of thin air. new credit, the asset bubble could values speculation over produc - nology or knowledge needed. Just Not cash. Not currency. Only never expand so far — whether it’s tion — and that gives the private the legal power. We can create the government can produce that. sub-prime derivatives, dot-com credit system free reign to throw credit out of thin air, just as well as But most money in our econo - stocks, or rare earth futures. gasoline on the fire, through any private bank can. Ultimately, my — over 95 per cent of money If speculators had to spend unlimited, unregulated credit cre - we need a public, democratic, in our economy — is not curren - their own money on these asset ation. accountable banking system. One cy. Most money consists of entries Economist Toby Sanger bubbles, the prices could never that serves the Canadian econo - in electronic accounts. Savings speaks at Occupy rise to such precarious and Changing the rules my, not the wealth of those who accounts. Chequing accounts. Vancouver rally Oct. 29. destructive levels. It will happen again and again, own banks. Lines of credit, credit card bal - Now, there are two key prob - until we change the rules of this If we can create money out of ances and investment accounts. lems with the operation of this pointless, destructive game. thin air to buy and sell sub-prime In that electronic system, new Robin Hood private credit system, and its So what do we do? mortgage bonds, then by god we money is created, not by printing taxes urged interaction with speculation, that First, tax them. That’s the idea can create money out of thin air to currency, but through creating we must understand in order to behind the Robin Hood Tax, that pay for affordable housing that credit. Every time a bank issues The labour movement fight for change. we are fighting for today. Make could end homelessness. someone a new loan, they are cre - took part in rallies at Occupy First, the flow of credit — cre - them pay a little bit, with every If we can create money out of thin ating new money. sites across the country Oct. ated out of thin air by these banks pointless, unproductive transac - air to buy short options on Greek 29 to join the demand raised — is like a roller-coaster, all tion, to help clean up the mess sovereign debt, then we can create Creating new money by the International Trade depending on the mood swings of they left behind. money out of thin air to invest in It’s like a big magic machine, Union Congress (ITUC) in the bankers. A transactions tax alone won’t a green energy system to stop creating money out of thin air. calling for the introduction of When their greed overwhelms solve the problem. It won’t stop global climate change. And it’s called the private credit a Robin Hood Tax on finan - their fear, they will lend to anyone the process. But at least it will sup - There’s no magic to it. These system. cial market transactions. with a pulse. But when their fear port the public services that we ideas are prudent and rational and One of my favourite econo - The proposal, which overwhelms their greed, and they need, all the more so in the wake economically sound. Because like mists, John Kenneth Galbraith, would not affect consumer want to hoard every penny possi - of each financial meltdown. we said at the beginning, it is work put it this way: “The process by transactions, would impose a ble against the feared run on the which private banks create money tax on all financial market bank, they pull back loans even is so simple that the mind is transactions, putting some from their most reliable cus - The banks have had their corporate repelled.” restraints on speculation in tomers. How do they do it? They start the financial sector and gen - This roller-coaster, called the tax rate cut almost in half since 2000 out with some capital. Let’s say a erating revenue for social “bankers’ cycle,” is an inherent billion dollars. Then they lend it programs. The ITUC, which and destabilizing feature of the — from 29 per cent to 15 per cent out. Then they lend it out again. represents 155 million work - private credit system. And since And again. And again and again, ers worldwide, has said the tax the whole economy depends on Same goes for corporate tax and production and sharing and 10 or 20 or 50 times over. could generate an estimated the flow of new money and the cuts. Let’s reverse them. Put the sustaining that supports our real Each new loan is new money. $650 billion to help create flow of new credit, we are forced federal rate back to 18 per cent for economy. Not gambling with The economy needs that money, jobs and tackle poverty. to follow the same roller-coaster. the financial sector alone, and paper. let’s be clear. Without new money, The second problem is that we’d raise $1.5 billion per year for These towers look powerful. we wouldn’t be able to pay for the there, if people all want it at the there’s nothing underpinning the essential public services. But ultimately they are built on stuff we make. Stop making it, and same time. paper valuations of financial Taxing the banks is important. paper. we’d be in a depression. So Canada’s banks are fragile, assets, when they’ve been pumped But taxing the banks is not enough We’ve got the real power, with So the creation of new money too. True, our banks only lent up by the combination of specula - — we need to control them. Put our ability to work and produce (or credit) is as essential function their capital out 20 times over, not tion and irresponsible credit cre - in place rules that require them to and share and sustain. We’ve got for the whole economy. It’s like a 50 times as the Europeans did. ation. use this immense power, the the power to build something utility. But we’ve outsourced that That’s because Canadian regula - Then, when speculators’ power to create money out of thin new. We’ve got the power to crucial task to private banks. tions capped the leverage at 20. moods change, the whole thing air, to use it sensibly and produc - replace these towers with a system We’ve given them a legal licence But they’ve still got 20 times more comes crashing down. tively. Prohibit the gambling. that works. to print money — and the free - loans out there, than they actual - And then we all pay the price Make sure loans are aimed at sus - And that’s exactly what we’ve dom and power to do it on their ly have money in the bank. for a crisis we didn’t cause. And we tainable, productive purposes. started to do with this movement. own terms. Confidence is essential to the sta - all suffer the hangover from a The new measures being pro - Thank you for what you are Their goal is not providing the bility of the whole system. But party we weren’t invited to. moted internationally by Mark doing! And let’s get on with the economy with a sensible, sustain - confidence is intangible and This cycle of paper expansion Carney are a step in the right job! able supply of the credit we need. impossible to predict. If confi - and contraction, euphoria and direction. But a tiny, tiny baby Jim Stanford is chief economist Their goal is using their unique dence went south, Canadian panic, is hard-wired into the DNA step. We need more powerful with the national office of the CAW. power to create money out of thin banks would collapse as surely as of the deregulated private finan - restrictions. The text of his speech has been edited air, to maximize the profits of the Lehman Brothers or Dexia did. cial system. The cycle has hap - And friends, even controlling here for length. banks, and the wealth of the share - Now, what do the banks do with holders. all that money they created out of How does this system work, thin air? They lend it out. Some of creating money out of thin air? It it flows into the real economy, to only works if: pay for homes and cars and capi - Number 1: Not everyone tal equipment. But not enough comes to the bank to withdraw all goes there. That’s why our real this imaginary money, in the form economy is stuck. 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