ative Indians demand justice—Pg. 3 a 2c///c Tribune 15 Vol. 34, No. 20 FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1973 FISHERMEN SAY: By SEAN GRIFFIN In a historic move following the breakdown of negotiations between Canada and the United States, Canada served 60 days notice May 8 that it will extend net fishing , beyond the surf line tothe 12 mile limit in non-convention waters and lengthen the billnes Un fishermen shown willbe allowed to fish out beyond present de ty limits if the U.S. does not back down on its unacceptable Mand ISS for Fraser River salmon fishing rights. —Fisherman photos trolling season in order to increase Canada’s share of Fraser and other salmon runs. The impasse resulted from the U.S. adamance in demanding rights in perpetuity to Fraser River sockeyeand pink salmon runs. Agreement could only have been reached; according to the head of the Canadian dele- gation, C.R. Levelton, “‘if Canada had sold out her national interest.”’ Under the Canada-U.S. treaty signed in 1930 and implemented in 1938, convention waters are defined as those between the 48th and the 49th parallels and including the Strait of Juande Fuca, Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia north to about Sechelt. T of _eannouncement last week Dice arp rise in the consumer Ufone has added extra at peace to the open air rally Set fo, Couver City Hall Square Don, Unday, May 27 at2 p.m. Ordj pers of the rally, the Co- Cerned Ing Committee of Con- th Itizens, announced this Paga tat Federal NDP MLA Sealy fale hasagreedtobea and Dice. that the Vancouver Nam oy Labor Councilhad Man or vf Rundgren as chair- a the rally, report Week Statistics Canada €d that food prices had Apri} ‘6 percent from March Mere...’ 20d that if the rate of Dtices © Were maintained, food Percent Would rise almost 37 On by next March. thr - One month in the last lange, cats has there been a tiga, tonthly increase in food and July that was between June Ane.” last year. €Xaminat, Show. Xamination of the figure Ing ty gat food prices, accord- Biss. tatistics Canada, have _ climbed 12.9 percent over the last 12 months. Food prices outpace all other consumer items, andis almost double the complete cost of living index which climbed 6.6 percent in the same one-year period. In the 12 month period under review, Statistics Canada says that beef prices since last April rose an average of more than 16’ percent; pork prices are nearly 30 percent higher and poultry is up more than 26 percent. Eggs are 43 percent higher than a year earlier. Meanwhile, the big food monopolies continue to report huge profits all across Canada. A survey carried recently in the Toronto Globe and Mail, based on a sampling of 161 com- panies, revealed that corporate profits, after taxes, rose more than 35 percent in the first three months compared with the same period in 1972. Food indus- try profits were well ahead of the average, up by a total of 65.4 percent for six large food chains - included in the sampling. The same national trend is evident in B.C. Last week the PT reported record - breaking profits for Woodwards Stores of ten million dollars. This week Kelly, Douglas and Co., partof the Weston chain, reported record sales and profits for the last year. The company oper- ates Super-Valu stores and Nabob Foods Ltd. Net profits jumped by 16.5 percent toa total of $2.9 million. Reflecting a sensitiveness to public protest over food profiteering, the president of Kelly, Douglas, Victor Mac- Lean, defended the huge profits of big business and said big busi- ness is ‘‘not displaying enough bravery in defence of the profit system.” Meanwhile, as profits and prices continue to soar, the Federal government is moving with the speed of a snail to name the personnel for the Food Prices Review Board. The first sockeye catch divi- sion between the twocountries —ona50-50 basis— waseffected in 1946. The convention, ‘ad- ministered by the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Com- mission, was amended by pro- tocol in 1956-57 toinclude Fraser River pink salmon runs. Waters above the 49th Parallel are not governed by the salmon convention but ‘‘surf lines’’ are drawn the entire length of the coast beyond which salmonnet fishing is prohibited. But the unacceptable de- mands of the U.S. on Fraser River and other salmonruns are changing all that. The Canadian position is, and vhas been, that each country should harvest the fish originat- ing in its own rivers. Realizing, however, that the stocks from various rivers intermingle, the negotiations between the two countries — at. least from Canada’s standpoint — have, as their first objective, the reduc- tion of interceptions of fish re- turning .9 various rivers to spawn. Canada has been the loser in efforts to balance suchintercep- tions— between 1967 and 1972, the Americanstook anaverage of 1.8 million more Canadian fish annually. The U.S. pro- posals would have the effect of increasing the inequity. Canadian troll fishermen have been intercepting chinooks and cohos of U.S. origin but the Am- ericans refuse to discuss these interceptions in the same terms as the Fraser River fishery, con- sidering the chinook and coho: fishery to be an entirely new one and not to be equated with what the Americans’ consider ‘‘historic and geographic”’ rights on the Fraser. In addition, while the U.S., ‘since 1938 has taken sockeye and pink salmon worth about $150 mil- lionat today’s prices under the terms of the convention, its costs— as part of the convention program to rehabilitate the Fraser fishery — have only amounted to $1.1 million. Andas was pointed out by federal environment minister Jack Davis in February, the U.S. has always ‘‘dragged its feet’’ in providing its share of the rehabilitation cost. But when Davis announced last year that Canada wanted the See FISHING, pg. 12 IN THIS ISSUE Communist parley maps policies to fight monopolies See page 7 " Pi