Kodiak mirror. [volume], September 28, 1962, Page 2, Image 2

About Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976

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C of C Committees
Make 1st Reports
At Thurs. Meet
Preliminary committee reports
and an appeal for each member of
the Chamber of Commierce by
President Art Brooks to play a role
in the development of Kodiak high
lighted Thursday’s C of C meeting
held at the Town Club.
Dr. Bob Johnson, chairman of
t’ne Tourist Committee, said that
updating of the brochure is going
ahead, and additional information
on the economy phase will be
brought up to date. He said a final
ized committee report should De
available by Nov. 1 and the bro
chure in the hands of the printer
by Dec. 1.
Chairman A1 Hoehberger of the
Civic Projects reported that Base
Town meetings will be held in the
near future, while a member of
the committee to publicize the vo
cation school bond issue at Kodiak
on the Nov. 6 ballot. Pete Deveau,
recommended that advertising fa
voring the project be placed in
Anchorage newspapers late in Oct.
The committee has been authorized
to spend up to $500 on promotion.
Ray Martin of the Crab Festival
Committee said that $1,430 of the
$1,500 pledge had been collected
and with the Fourth of July ex
l>enditure on fireworks, finances
apparently were on an Even-Steven
basis, while President Art Brooks
said that about $1,500 in Alaskan
Trade Dollars had been sold of the
$2,000 ordered.
Guests were Dr. Bill Mill of An
chorage, John Ault of Anchorage,
Dr. Ken Benison of Seattle and
Norman Grant of Anchorage.
Fuller Explanation
Of Landing Law
By Karl Armstrong
In last week’s Mirror we re
ported about the new king crab
bing areas discovered by the Bu
reau of Fisheries vessel Yaquina
in the landing law area. In our
“Ed. Note’’ we made comments to
the effect that the new fishing
grounds were too distant for eco
nomic or safe utilization by our
Kodiak-based fleet which must ob
serve the provisions and restric
tions of the landing law, and fur
ther, that the larger-sized vessels
of the foreign fleet (who are unaf
fected by the landing law) could
utilize the area using methods and
gear not allowed Alaskans.
We have had a number of calls
regarding this matter and have
arrived at the conclusion that
most people (including our
selves) and many fishermen,
lack knowledge, and thus under
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provisions, and its effect.
‘‘The landing law was written as
a conservation measure and came
about as a direct result of research
on the effect that otter trawling
had on king crab stocks,” we are
advised by Rep. Pete Deveau who
authored the bill.
“Data collected by researchers
from the Alitak Bay fishery in
1954 showed that by actual count
of two widely separated catches,
449 out of 1,000 and 800 out of
1,800 females were crushed or
mortally damaged, indicating loss
of approximately forty per cent
of the captured females during the
season. Thus out of 1,008,000 fe
males, 403,200 were killed out
right or severely injured,” Deveau
said.
“Because of such research re
sults, use of otter trawls for king
crabbing was outlawed within state
waters,” said Deveau, adding, “It
made little sense to outlaw the
otter trawl and other destructive
methods inside state waters with
out attempting to make some meas
ure of control over adjacent high
sea area waters since the king <, rab
is migratory by nature and moves
inshore and offshore intermittent
ly. The landing law gave us the
effective control necessary.”
After discussing this matter with
Rep. Pete Deveau, who researched,
wrote and sponsored the landing
law in the second session of the
first legislature, and reading over
again carefully the provisions of
the measure, we find that in and
of itself, it DOES NOT present a
block to a sensible expansion of
our fishery efforts and that our
critical comments in regard to
gear, methods and areas, would be
more properly directed at the reg
ulatory agencies involved in the
fisheries.
The landing law DOES NOT
itself attempt to regulate the
fisheries insofar as setting lim
its on gear, methods and areas
are concerned. As Mr. Deveau
pointed out, “The legislature
felt that it should not attempt to
write into laws the necessary
regulations but rather leave the
management and regulation of
the fisheries up to the regulatory
agency.”
“At any time it deems advise
able, desirable or necessary, the
regulatory board, can adopt, alter
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situations as they might arise from
time to time,” Deveau explained.
“The landing law, in effect, sim
ply prevents the use within the
state of migratory fish or shellfisn
which are obtained by any means
or methods prohibited to Alaskan
fishermen. It leaves up to the
Alaska Board of Fish and Game
(the regulatory agency) the actual
details of defining of areas, meth
ods, gear, etc., etc.,” he said.
Mr. Deveau further pointed out
that “every coastal state in the
union has a landing law, and that
such laws are considered neces
sary for a sensible conservation
and management of any fishery in
volving migratory species."
Rep. Deveau further stated
us that “it is iny understanding
that our state officials have re
ceived assurances from the Japa
nese government that their
fleets will not fish for crab or
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