January, 1966 EPARTMENT OF World To Le *1 A`.r.1 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES OF CANADA CON TENTS VOL. 18 NO. FEATURES DU Knowledge and Experience Enlisted for Development fisheri of Canada's Fisheries have b• Unusual Pelagic Fishes of the Northwest Atlantic ists fr, The Processing of Fish and Development of New Fish succes Pr oducts TECHNICAL NEWS here fi and Ja fishing SCIENTIFIC NEWS specia federa CANADIAN FISHERIES NEWS on joir vincia] A Dish for Gourmets 11 Navy Helps Fisheries 20 Extend Indemnity Plan 21 istrati 21 FAO Expands Fisheries Work Per so: Pothead Whale Catch 21 varyin New Collection Centres 22 ice of Heads Conservation Service 22 ing thi Aids Disabled Trawler 22 twofol Lobster Season 22 ermer FAO World Symposium 22 divers Fishery Figures for November -24 ice's in devi FISHERIES NEWS FROM ABROAD 25 ing m, and es, CURRENT READING Editor E.H. HEARNDEN gaine Cover Photograph: Part of Manitoba's inland fishing fleet in home is no ( port on Lake Winnipegosis. imp or assigr dude 1 but al: have 5 The contents of TRADE NEWS are Crown Copyrighted but may be reprinted in other publi ations. Refe to the source, however, would be appreciated. For further information with regard to T RADE NEWS to the Director of the Information and Consumer Service, Department of Fisheries, Ottawa, C? World's Fishing Areas Combed For Specialists To Lend Their Skills Knowledge and Experience Enlisted for Development of Canada's Fisheries By James Kinloch Scientific and Technical Division, 7 Information Branch. URING the past year or so the field staff of the knowledge and skills could have been gained in no D Department of Fisheries of Cana da and the other way than by actual fishing, boat building and fisheries departments of the Atlantic coastprovinces fish handling. 3 have been augmented by a versatile group of special- 7 ists from Canada's fishing a r ea s and from other CHIEF OBJECTIVE successful fishing countries. 12 The chief objective of the program to which these specialists are contributing is to help bring Those from outside the country have come Canada's fishing industry, particularly in its pri- 18 here from Great Britain, the United States, Norway mary sector, to as modern and efficient a state as and Japan; the Canadians have been shifted from one possible so that, in the face of ke en competition 19 fishing area to another in order to demonstrate their from other fishing nations, full advantage can be special skills. Some have worked or are working on taken of the great resource at its disposal. federal fisheries projects, while others are engaged on joint projects undertaken by the federal and pro- Some idea of the wide variety of projects and vincial departments concerned with fisheries. the men who are helping to c a r r y them out can be 11 gained from the following brief outlines of a number 20 These fishing specialists, grouped for admin- of the experts and their work. 21 istrative purposes under the label "Special Service 21 Personnel", have been placed under contract for George Murray, of Aberdeen, Scotland, comes 21 varying periods by the Industrial Development Serv- from a Bannffshire family with a fishing tradition, 22 ice of the federal Department, which is administer- and has done considerable work in Great Britain for 22 ing this special technical assistance program, for a the White Fish Authority. His background includes 22 twofold purpose -- to demonstrate to Canada's fish- trawling and seining, salvage work, and the intro- 22 ermen new techniques which would enable them to duction of new types of gear. Prominent in the 22 diversify their efforts, and to work with the Serv- Aberdeen fishing industry as a fleet owner and s represented Scotland at various .24 ice's permanent staff of engineers and technologists manager, he has in developing andtesting new vessels, newfish catch- conferences on fishing matters. In Canada, his ing methods, new processing and handling techniques assignment was to evaluate the application of Scot- and even to develop new fish products. tish seine netting techniques for groundfish. 27 Another Scotsman, William Stewart, of Los- The v a l u e of practical experience, the kind siemouth in Morayshire, who has had wide experi- gained during long years at sea, and for which there ence in Scottish seining, has visited New Brunswick is no quick and easy substitute, i s playing a most andNova Scotia to help assess Danish seining opera- important part in this special activity. The experts tions being carried out in various areas, and to in- assigned to the various phases of the program in- struct local fishermen in Scottish techniques. Mr. clude technologists of much repute in fishing circles, Stewart was involved in the introduction of Danish but also in their numbers are veteran skippers who seining to Scotland and was a pioneer in the develop- have spent up to 50 years at their calling, whose ions. Refer ment of the Scottish version of this technique. DE NEWS ttawa, Car - 3 - Kenji Kasahara, chief gear technologist for a large Japanese firm, is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Fisheries and has int r o d u c e d the automatic Japanese Squid jigger to Newfoundland. Williar This has been an outstanding success. Commercial authori firms have been selling automatic jiggers since they from S were introduced but many Newfoundland fishermen, in 1922 with native ingenuity, have made their own, using for the material at hand -- even such ordinary objects as since 1 tin pie plates -- to fashion the various components. gillnet, whose water, ing, wa monofi were %; fish. 1 hauler; gillnet John Evich huildin Williax light, it is interesting to note that he found the tradi- 42 yea tional Newfoundland cod trap, in its basic designs coast, for specific areas, as developed over the past 150 For 15 troller years, to be just a b out the same as it would be if mans g developed by today's specialists using modern turned techniques. visor ( then w Hou Nishigori Kenji Kasahara John McGrath supervised a successful long- He has lining experiment in Labrador. A native of New- and tui foundland, he went to British Columbia in 1957 and Hou Nishigori, a graduate of Keio University, in 1961 became owner-master of a vessel fishing Tokyo, who has also completed postgraduate studies in tuna for salmon, halibut , cod, herring and shrimp up at McGill University, Montreal, has worked for "Blue and down the B.C. coast. He is now having a 65- Japan Air Lines and has been of great value to spent foot combination longliner-purse seiner-dragger Canada's fisheries as an interpreter, working with Pacific built for his own use, to fish out of Newfoundland. Mr. Kasahara, and hass also prepared reports on decade Mr. McGrath's job in Labrador wa s to try to find the me thods and procedures of the Newfoundland years. out if a line fishery there could supplement, or even squid fishery. replace, the trap and jigger fishery existing on the northern Labrador coast. This has been successful Servic TUNA SEINING INSTRUCTOR to the extent that it was shown that fish could be Georg caught by longline when they could not be caught in seven John Evich, of San Pedro, California, went to any quantity in any other way. the United States from Jugoslavia in 1937 and spent many years on the Pacific coast, fishing for tuna, mackerel, sardines and salmon. Recently he was engaged for a period to work as an instructor in tuna seining on the New Brunswick trawler-seiner "Green Waters". Fran Altman, who acted as adviser and in- structor in shrimp fishing in Nova Scotia and crab fishing in the Magdale n Islands, owns a shrimp trawler in his home state of North Carolina, where he has also be en a schoolteacher and manager of crab packing and shrimp handling plants. Yukio Ogata, a Japanese fishery technician, has made a thorough investigation of netting opera- tions in Newfoundland and has recommended some modifications to existing nets and the introduction of synthetic materials where advisable. As a side- John McGrath William Dunn An - 4 - GILLNET FISHING EXPERT A lifetime of fishing with gillnets has made William A. Dunn, of Port Dover, an acknowledged authority on this type of gear. As a youth, he fished from Scotland on the North Sea and came to Canada in 1922 to start fishing in Lake Erie. He has worked for the Industrial Development Service, on and off, since 1959, when he introduced a new nylon cod gillnet, Lake Erie style, to Lake Erie. Mr. Dunn, whose experience includes fishing in fresh and salt water, deepsea and inshore, as well as minesweep- ing, was at one period engaged to introduce the first monofilament gillnets on the Atlantic coast. These were very successful, making big catches of cod- fish. He has also done a lot of work with gillnet haulers, installing them on both small and large George Howe gillnet boats on the Atlantic coast. The instructor in "new design" small boat part of the present program has been to rig a vessel building in Newfoundland for the current program is for snap gear in the Newfoundland fishery and in- William Barber, of Victoria, B.C. , who has spent struct fishermen in its handling. e tradi- 42 years in the boat building industry on the Pacific lesigns coast, dealing mainly in fishing craft up to 150 tons. Egil Vea, a fishing skipper at 23 in his native 1st 150 For 15 years he one r a t e d his own yard, building Norway, demonstrated and assessed the potential of ld be if trollers and tuna boats, and for nine yea rs was Norwegian shrimp trawls in the Gulf of St.