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Show Page 6 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Continued From Page to I thousand tons of silver hake and 14.9 thousand tons of red hake. Want to hear some more sad stories? How about these: 23 1.(1) National The Marine Fisheries Service estimates that just 2 years of concentration by the foreign fleets on sea herring has reduced the abundance of that species in the North Atlantic by 959c! (2) The Russians first appeared off Oregon and Washington in April, 1966, and have fished the ocean perch and arrowtooth flounder stocks intensively since then. The result has been a fall in the catch by American fishermen from 13.5 million pounds of ocean perch in 965 to merely 900,000 pounds in 1971, and in arrowtooth flounder from 2.3 million pounds in 1965 to 500.000 pounds in 1971. (3) In 1970, Russian and Japanese f ishing fleets extracted well over 4 billion pounds of marine resources from Alaskas Continental Shelf alone. Thats approximately 20 pounds of seafood for every American citizen gone forever! (4)- ln recent years the Russians and Poles have fished river herring at sea and the result has been spring runs 'in rivers that have been reduced by 50 and 1 mid-Atlan- The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 29, 1973 tic more. From 1952 to I960 the U.S. catch from New England waters averaged over 700,000,000 pounds, 99 of the total catch from that area. By 1969 the U.S. catch had declined to 418.000,000 pounds and was only 25 of the total. On the other other hand, the Soviets alone took 836,000,000 pounds 50 of the total catch from the overexploited waters. (5)- (6) In 1957 some 67 of the fishery in the U.S. consumed products were domestically produced. By 1967 that percentage had dropped to 29 and is continuing downhill. catches by the (7) Incidental foreign fleets of sea bass, porgies and fluke through the mid 60s has led to a drastic decline in these importar ood and sport fish. (8) Inciuental" catches of the extremely valuable salmon, halibut and king crab by the foreign fleets sovereignty over the mineral threaten that states major resources of the continental shelf. extension of This unilateral industry. followed was by the (9) Russian trawlers not only drag sovereignty of Declaration on the Maritime up impressive quantities valuable lobsters in the course of Zone of 1952" in which Chile, their operations, but also regularly Ecuador and Peru extended their lobster jurisdiction to 200 miles. This not drag through pots placed on the offshore only led to the tuna wars with the U.S. tuna fleet, but grounds by American fishermen, distant-watalso to similar extensions of causing great losses. Harassment of small jurisdiction by other countries. (10) In 1958, Iceland extended its American vessels is a common complaint from New England to fisheries limit to 12 miles and Alaska. On June 4 of this year, the brought about a confrontation 86-fodragger Rosanne with Great Britain. Nevertheless, Maria,sank off the New England the Icelanders stuck to their guns coast after being rammed by the and within a few years most 214-foEast German trawler countries, including the U.S., had Rosanne gone to a 12 mile fisheries limit. The Brandenburg. Maria drew anchor with the proper Iceland is still plagued with foreign lights showing, yet the East traw lers and declining fisheries and German vessel sent a protest to the has announced that it is extending Coast Guard claiming that the its limit to 50 miles as of September 1, 1972. dragger caused the collision. The State Departments On Sunday evening, (11) 1972 February 6, Capt. Howard objection to extensions of Bogen of the party boat Jamaica jurisdiction is based on defense from Brieile, N.J. was headed considerations They feel that U.S. offshore on an exploratory fishing ships wont be able to move about trip. While underway, he saw from the w orld freely and that straits will a distance of 10 miles what present a particularly thorny appeared to be the Manhattan situation. The argument is valid as skyline. However, this was 6 miles far as territorial seas are concerned East of Manasquan Inlet and he (these provide absolute control), but most countries are actually knew that that had to be the famous fishing area known as the only interested in protecting their Mud Hole a small canyon that natural resources rather than with shipping. interfering begins just outside of New York distinction between Harbor. As Capt. Bogen Therefore, the limits seas and territorial fisheries this of mass brilliant approached is is if important the problem to be lights he could see that it was a fleet of 32 Russian fishing vessels a resolved. Presently we recognize a territorial sea and a Russian city just 16 miles from fisheries limit. Since the 2 have no New Jersey and not much further from New York City! necessary relationship to each other, American fishermen are pressing for extension of the Why does the United States find itself in the position of not being fisheries limit to 200 miles. Within the proposed 200-mi- le able to protect its own fisheries? limit, the U.S. would have Basically because of the stubborn traditional insistence by our State exclusive jurisdiction to control the fisheries. Foreign vessels wouldn't Department that there should be no national jurisdiction beyond 12 necessarily be excluded, but would on Alaska's broad continental shelf well-mark- ed er ot ot 1 12-m- ile ile miles. be subject to U.S. conservation ile J inspections, the agreements arent worth the paper SILVER w theyre written on, and they have, in fact, been frequently and openly N.Y.( was violated! Commercial fishermen are the hardest hit by the foreign fishing fleet invasion, but sport fishermen have been affected also. For instance, the formerly abundant bottom species that form the of the party-bo- at backbone business in the New York-Ne- w Jersey area have been so depleted that this huge sportfishing fleet now has to depend on the cyclical bluefish, which could fail in any year. And while most sport fishermen may not be too concerned about the abundance of sea herring and mackerel, the fact is that most larger species in the seas depend for their survival upon the availability of huge quantities of those species. This applies to the striped bass, bluefish, cod,pollack and others that feed on them primarily when they are small, as well as to the giant tuna, swordfish, sharks, etc. Another insidious effect on the sport fishery caused by excessive commercial fishing is increased exploitation of inshore species such as the striped bass. With offshore fish scarce, American vs.lted- - introduced a bill (HR 13729) in the Huse Representatives that would extend the fisheries limit to 200 miles. 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