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Show 602-- Writhes "Youngtown Th, , . fV .4 C'.r. it it .. V, : Dndependen? - offi v Page 2 Death Throes In Agony Of -- j$ dedicated To The Constitotion, r Liberty, Morality, and Truth jtiitKtiiijiiikifijti&jtitjiitititjcitititicjKjtitititjtjtiiii'iiiiititiiitititjtitititit - Vol. 4 No. 13 WT ' 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 March 29, 1973 TWILI THE REASCTJ YOU'RE MOT over-exploitati- CATcmrj&rvWJYnsHis BECAUSE THEY ARE. THE SOVIET FlSHmiG FLEET Vawlc: mtnlk Lwn x WM ThIIIm. ITr.lManwali WJmi Liit wbI: INlMMaf f ImImiI MnTnki : nlM IB 7JNlM(taMiUk Mnknii Et Ur.CaniMlihMll.pM'lai nldm. Factory ecaabto el eceetoe, Iveei In fHHi W.HljaBW ! mi atoreffa hell wmtuill - iraMpm Hf. ntmul i- mw, BawSM ! ! el up to IMN aaecelMk Vaacatlffei eegiievafcR; The offshore waters of the United States will soon become a dead sea. The of marine resources that has doomed most European fisheries will be repeated in our own waters. This Will happen shortly unless the concerned citizens of the United States do something about it! At the time you read this, at least 650 to 750 huge foreign fishing vessels are extracting from Americas offshore fishing grounds a tremendous tonnage of food, sport and industrial fish wherever these species haven't already been depleted by the same crafts activities over the past decade. Having destroyed the fisheries in their own waters, foreign fleets (primarily from Iron Curtain countries) started ranging into American waters in the early I960's. At first we assumed that these vessels, with bristling MfeMrfefe Ifefewtos 87r.BtocetolierbeetoeaeeMtode Ala deck. aetea as laelevy atop. on IT A I RISTORI feet long and up) equipped with the smallmesh nets, and took most sophisticated devices for 283,000.000 pounds of mostly locating and catching fish and small haddock. This incredible shellfish. abuse of the fishery, coupled with a Hunting in packs (search vessels succession of poor spawning years, find the fish and call in the fleet) has so reduced the haddock they soon commenced what has population that some biologists come to be known as pulse fear that it is a candidate for fishing. This consists of directing extinction. intense effort to a particular fishery Now, after the fact, we are trying until it is no longer feasible to to preserve what little is left of the continue. fishery with closed seasons and other controls. But once a species has been depleted to such an extent At that point the fleet merely there is no assurance that it can switches to another species and make a comeback. Needless to say, proceeds again. Most foreign the price for the remaining few fleets, and the Russians in I haddock has and electronic aren't concerned were about is flesh their no to be found , particular, equipment, longer interested only in spying. I the particular species, but rather in your fish stand wiches.. . The demise of the haddock was certainly felt that way when as a the protein produced. Due to I in officer failures saw Russian the little concern to the Russian of young destroyer my agricultural a Norfolk out routed of on ship programs they must make up their fleet. In 1966 they concentrated on weekend to shadow a Russian protein gap with fishery products silver hake (whiting) and red d, how far hake trawler that was following our first and. being (ling). American biologists nuclear sub, the George they have to go to get it is no object. had always assumed that these The sad story of pulse fishing is Washington, on its trial runs. species were so abundant that it However, it soon became clear best illustrated by the haddock would be literally impossible to that there were even greater stakes fishery. Traditionally the haddock overfish them. Therefore they were than electronic surveillance had been our most valuable to form the basis of a future in involved in the arrival of the Soviet groundfish usually the main industry which would fleet. They were interested in the ingredient in fish sandwiches and provide cheap protein to It supported a very vast stocks of fish available on the supplement less nutritious foods. rich North Atlantic grounds off consistent fishery on Georges Yet in one year of concentration our coast, and they meant to Banks. 50 to 100 miles off the the Soviets took 96.2 thousand Massachusetts coast, and a strong tons of silver hake and 25.7 extract all they could get. Within a few years the fleet had year class in 1963 gave promise of thousand tons of red hake. This so grown from a few outmoded another decade of fine fishing. depicted the stocks that the next trawlers to a huge armada of However, in 1965 the Russians year even the Soviet catch dropped modern stern trawlers (mostly 270- - moved onto Georges with their sky-rocket- ed . VeeaelHs MaTieafer Leegto eeeiei. Nwfeertoei ttf.TMcaeaaelcae cany feed at M tew hah prefects. 4? i Vaaaai type: Leeyto eaeraM: NMfeerhevew: Factory Ship state-owne- 119 yiy.Weialfegfaer.bdatoHiclidatoheel dntoa ahead. W tfstoff t koKef diF WM cany 1MM toes el dale eA 1JN tone d fceeee diato cmcI Caa fcafeto 18 nkatoi per fey. 200 MILE LIMIT NO-WTHE SOVIET FISHING FLEET IS 12 mllea off our coast and sucking up everything that swims, crawls, or hides in the sand. .. .They leave nothing. ...They put back nothing.... We must have legislation now to control our Continental Shelf and regulate foreign fishing fleet catches. We must start by pushing our present 12 mile limit to 200 miles, which will take the great pressure off of our most valuable marine resources, our fish. If we do not act now, In the very near future we can all Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah n td -i v lM rz J3 ar- O H H I , .t: P? CO f-- il 1 - a n fa d O M .r Si O o w td H d hj M S and Congressman today and ask them to support 200 mile legislation... 200 MILE LIMIT NOW FOR AMERICAS UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1 5 V fish-prote- Write your Senator forget fishing... TWILIGHT i- Write today for Fish Tomorrow. FISHERIES iish-and-chi- ps. Continued on Page 6 Panama Despite the fact that the United States holds the Panama Canal Zone in a lease in perpetuity and owns the land, under pressure of the cryptocommunist clique in the State Department abetted by Henry Kissinger, President Nixon is about to gratuitously relinquish the sovereign rights of the United States to either the United Nations or the Marxist military junta that now controls the Republic of Panama. Ironically, the Panama Canal, which the U.S. taxpayers have been subsidizing for more tha sixty years, may be turning into a veritable gold mine due to the world energy crisis; this is why an international consortium of bankers is backing the revolutionary government of Panama and why a second canal through Nicaragua is planned. Burmah Oil, California Asiatic Oil Co., British Petroleum, and Shell Oil have decided to invest $1 billion to develop the largest proven natural gas and condensate pool in the world located on their 144,000 square mile lease on the continental shelf off Northwest Australia. Because of the favorable location of this pool and of the high hydrocarbon saturation of its producing zones, this $1 billion investment will yield bigger, quicker and cheaper supplies of natural gas for both the West and East coasts of the United States than would be possible under the proposed $45 billion joint Soviet-America- n development of the natural gas deposits in Northwest and Northeast Siberia, currently being negotiated by former Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson. Although the sea route from the flush Australian finds is the longest 7700 nautical miles to San Francisco from Port Hedland, as compared to 4,600 sea miles from Nahodka, on the Pacific Coast of Siberia, liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers make transportation, even over such big distances, only a relatively small factor in the price of the product. The principal expense in such projects is onpipelines, which in the case of NE and NW Siberian gas fields involve more than 3000 miles each, while in the case of the NW Australian offshore finds only a gathering network of very short pipelines is scheduled. Thus the bulk of the outlay by Burmah Oil and its partners is to go for production wells and the world's biggest gas liquefaction plant. The reserves of natural gas n located by the group are now estimated to contain 700 trillion cubic feet of gas, as against 546 trillion claimed for the Soviet Union by Gas Minister Kortunov. Thus the hydrocarbons pool off NW Australia contains sufficient reserves to supply the current U.S. consumption of natural gas for the next 87 years. - long-distan- Anglo-America- ce Shipments are expected to begin late next year and to reach flood tide-u- p to 10 billion cubic feet a day before 1980, the bulk of it to the East Coast of the United States, swelling the traffic through Canal manifold. Big the Panama reserves of hydrocarbons recently discovered by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Papua, off NE Australia, are expected eventually to further swell the exports of Australian natural gas and oil to the U.S. Furthermore, recently Magellan Oil Co.and its 15 affiliates and associates, controlled by the Estate of the late William F. Buckley, Sr., now headed by John W. Buckley and William F. Buckley, Jr., which control the 19 million acre oil and gas concession in Central Australia, have signed a contract with Pacific Lighting Corp., Los Angeles, to supply up to 500 million cubic feet of natural gas in liquefied form to the West Coast. It is to come from the big Continued On Page 7 |