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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



Norwegian : Several longliners have moved 

 south of Martha's Vineyard off Massachusetts 

 coast to fish for sharks. 



ALLEGED SOVIET FISHING FOR 

 SALMON OFF PACIFIC NORTHWEST: 



In mid-May several U, S. west coast fish- 

 ermen reported to the Press that they had 

 seenthe Soviets fishing with gill nets for salm- 

 on in the dawn hours. On May 31, the direc- 

 tor of the Washington Department of Fisher- 

 ies stated that 16 out of 1,184 salmon caught 

 by sport fishermen over Memorial Day week- 

 end off Pacific Northwest were fish "recently 

 marked by gill nets." The head (A. Chepur) 

 of the Soviet fishing fleet operating off Pacific 

 Northwest was asked by U.S. public relations 

 men and newsmen whether his fleet was fish- 

 ing for salmon. He denied that any of his ves- 

 sels is either equipped for salmon fishing or 

 is permitted to fish for that species. He did 

 allow that individual salmon may be caught 

 incidentally during trawling and is eaten by 

 the crew. 



Because it is known that the Soviet Minis- 

 try of Fisheries does not look with favor on 

 high-seas fishing for salmon, there seems to 

 be a reasonable doubt that the Soviets are fish- 

 ing salmon commercially. 



INTERVIEW WITH SOVIET FISHERMEN: 



On May 28, a party of Washington's Legis - 

 lature, representatives of the West Coast 



TroUers Association, and newsmen chartered 

 a boat to pay a private visit to the Soviet fish- 

 ing fleet. Aboard were three members of the 

 Washington State Legislature's interim Fish- 

 eries Committee (Senator Ted Peterson and 

 Representatives Dwight Hawley and ChetKing), 

 the public relations director of the Congress 

 of American Fishermen (Dick O'Keef), a 

 newspaper reporter (Stanton H. Patty of the 

 Seattle Times ), and a radioman (Bob Ginther) 

 of the King Broadcasting Company. 



Several weeks previous, O'Keef tried to 

 get aboard the flagship (the Churkin) of the 

 Soviet fleet operating off the Oregon coast, 

 but was unable to do so even on written re- 

 quest. On May 28, however, the Soviet Com- 

 mander of the fishing fleet, residing aboard 

 the Churkin did allow O'Keef and 2 newsmen 

 to come aboard for an interview. It was ob- 

 vious that he had received permission from 

 the Soviet authorities to do so. During the 

 interview, the Soviet Commander Aleksander 

 Chepur made several interesting statements: 

 (1) The Soviet vessels fishing off the U. S. 

 coasts may only approach within 15 miles of 

 shore; if any vessels stray inside 15 miles, 

 they are doing so in violation of this Soviet 

 operational directive; (2) the Soviet Union 

 will stay in the Northeastern Pacific fishing 

 areas at least until mid-September 1966, un- 

 less instructed differently by the Soviet Min- 

 istry of Fisheries. 



On the weekend of June 4-5, another group 

 of newsmen was allowed aboard Soviet fishing 

 vessels. This time, they took pictures for a 

 Seattle television program. 



LOBSTER SHEARS FOR THE HOME DINER 



Lobster eating for the home diner is made much easier by using a new type 

 of lobster shears recently devised. The shears readily cut through the toughest 

 of lobster shells and eliminates trying to retrieve bits of meat from shelled -in 

 places. The shears have fine pointed blades which cut the joints wide open al- 

 lowing the diner to pick out the meat neat and clean in one piece. ( Science News , 

 April 16, 1966.) 



