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Canada recently declared a two hundred mile - territorial limit. This move, which I have been advocating for many years, allows us the — theoretical ability to: “manage our own fishing

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stocks.

. As the technology of ~ fishing becomes more. and moré’ sophisticated, and as the pressure on the resources of the sea become higher and higher, it makes sense that we do not leave this fishery open to the uncontrolled plundering of foreign fisher- men. Draggers, for instance,

. take all fish, regardless of |

species. There is nothing left after a dragger has been through. And- the bottom fishery of the North Pacific is -in a sad state, having been over-fished to a . severe. degree despite protestations |

‘of: all) concerned about. **management’’. THEY’RE STILL THERE ~

‘ Now; to. amy ‘amazement, I find that there are foreign fleets still fishing within ‘the

two-hundred mile limit. I

understand some are

American, some are Polish, some are Japanese. Why are

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they still allowed to fish within the two-hundréd mile limit? It appears that certain

‘fish stocks - black cod, hake . and dogfish .- -have ‘been. * declared surplus to Canadian

requirements. And, in return for certain trading privileges,

the Canadian Government is’

‘allowing. these fishing fleets to take our fish resource.

" First of all, who can -say that these fish are “surplus?”

What in fact does that mean?»

Fisheries management is a very inexact science. Indefy any fisheries - scientist to prove to me that any fish species is “surplus.” In fact, the ecological in- terdependence of all species

is well known. To say certain -

Species are “surplus” is to my ‘mind = very simplistic thinking. Who > can really say?

The riches of the sea are exhaustible. We were taught the opposite in the public school system of my day.

™. And Ihave no doubt that this

type of propaganda is still alive in the minds of many people. It is fact that all over the world, despite - or rather

perhaps because of -'in-~

creasingly automated, soph- isticated and dreadfully. efficient fishing techniques,

‘fisheries catches are dec-

lining. A total of 230,000 new mouths must be fed on earth every day and the pressure on the fisheries and the sea is intense.

GOOD SENSE, BUT It makes: good sense for

Canada to declare a two. hundred mile limit and it

- makes good sense for us to

manage our fisheries so that they will yield, not just for now, but forever. But I am afraid that just isn’t happen-

ing, as evidenced by the fact.

“that “foreiizn ‘fleets are still ‘raping our fish resource.

The Canadian government indicates that these foreign

‘fishing fleets have been

given permission to fish in return for Canadian trading privileges with their coun- tries. I have seen and heard of so many cases of Canadian government ineptness in negotiations that I am

- extremely suspicious. of any deal arrived at.by govern-.

ment negotiators... And 1 don’t think that the fisheries

issues are any better»

negotiated than any other Canadian government: matter. oe

For instance I understand that it may be quite possible that the American fleets who

are taking our fish are being __

granted that privilege in return for us receiving a trading privilege - hold your hats - we are being allowed to sell our natural gas and oil

to the United States.

THE ‘RIGHT’ TO SELL

In a day when oil reserves all over the world = are dwindliig, when Saudia Arabia and Iran and the rest of the United ‘States foreign

oil suppliers are involved in ,

the prospect of Jong ‘bitter civil wars, when the oil shortage is a fact and the United States Government is busy drafting rationing schemes and oil user priority assignments, when the Mexican government is re- fusing to sell oil tothe USA, the Canadian government is giving away our fish resource in return for the right for us to sell our natural pas and oil to the United States. This is Canadian bureaucratic bumbling inefficiency at its peak. We give away our fishery resource so that we can give away our oil resource.

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