Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 16, 1963, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Textin I FRIDAY, AUGUST In, 19S3 Farming the .Hiolo'gisi Relieves AAcodd Will CooTriLroll Life ddh cecums MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Editor'! note: This in t h e fourth in series on the Im plications of the government's intensified oceanography pro gram and the race between the United States and Russia 4o learn the mysteries of the ocean depth.) By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - "I don't see why we can't farm fish just like cows," says Dr. Robert L. Edwards, gazing out to sea from his laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., the Amer ican mccca for oceanographers. Dr. Edwards, a government biologist, was talking about his hopes for making the ocean fish resource more de. pendable and more plentiful, not of rearing food fish in ponds or lakes as fish farm ing is usually thought of. The logistics of "farming" the oceans would be incredi ble, Dr. Edwards concedes, but he believes man will one day know enough about the marine life of the oceans to influence and alter that mys terious life cycle for the ben efit of future generations. Sick Room Supplies for HINT At A to Z Rentals 1213 N. Nv.rtld. 77t-1474 "W wit nut .v.rytfiiiii" This Is not )ust an aca demic consideration which intrigues a pipe-imoking scientist. The world iish catch, which reached 90 billion pounds in 1961. it rising each year. The catch seems to double about ev ery 12 years. No one knows ior certain how much addi tional tithing the ocean can sustain without teriout de pletion of moil food fish tpeciet. Several tpeciet al . ready show evidence of the ravage! of over-fithing. But some fisheries experts think the ocean could sus tain a catch that is five timet greater than the pre sent one. In any event, the world population boom and the like ly increase in commercial fishing by coastal countries that have severe food short ages point inevitably to rapid rise in the world catch in the years immediately ahead. Dr. Edwards, deputy di rector of the Bureau of Com merical Fisheries lab at Woods Hole, is stimulating oceanographic research ef forts aimed at increasing the ocean fish population. isn produce billions of eggs that perish due to disease, pre dators or other , unfavorable factors in their natural en vironment. Biologists estimate that only about one of every 10,000 eggs produce fish which reach maturity. Dr. No wonder the English keep so cool! (mix Qordon's Qin in a tall, iced drift k-and you will, toof)$$ The English are not easily fazed, even by summer heat. This national talent wai given j cheer ful accompaniment In 1769, when Alexander Cordon In troducedhfsremarlcablegin The Gordon's youdrinlc to day harks back to his origi nal formula, because one does not tamper with gin of such dis- tincrive dryness and delicate flavour. Try It soon in a rangy Cin Jr. Tonic or Tom Collins. Youll see why Cordon 'i Is the biggest seller in England, America, . k and the world. . $dso nmei ff.l.R. mmm itmm m em. ion kmm trans oismtto hm omit to mow. gmdn's ow ok co.. no. hums, . A ffi w I Edwards is confident that oceanographers will learn how to increase the survival rate so that the fish population may one day be doubled. Such an optimistic goal can be reached, he notes, only through an Intensive research effort. To gather data and specimens for laboratory an alysis, Woods Hole this spring received a brand new re search ship, Albatross IV the first ever designed and built by the U. S. specifically for fisheries research. H cost $2.1 million. During a recent four-day Atlantic cruiie, this re porter observed the ship's scientists and technicians tet out their big 60 by 90 foot nylon net from thit item trawler and retrieve tome 20 marine species. The Albatross hat labs where 16 tpecialittt can work. It even hat closed circuit television equipment to permit the icieniists on shipboard to watch the ac tivities of fish many fath oms below when a camera it dropped with the net. Raymond Fritz, chief sci entist on the Albatross, notes that the abundance of com merical fish varies drastically from year to year unaccount ably. By spending 200 days a year at sea, Fritz hopes the Albatross will learn more of the mysterious habits of groundfish species such as cod, haddock, silver hake, redfish, flounder and sea scal lop. The ideal Is to gel maxium sustained - yield fisheries," said Fritz. "In some cases we may be over-fishing, and in others under - fishing. We need more biological infor mation." David Miller, a marine zoologist, specializes in study ing what happens to various species in their first year after spawning, the period when groundfish mature. He hopes to make a systematic survey from 150 sampling stations scattered about the Gulf of Maine to collect eggs and lar vae In search of clues as to how to arrest infant mortality among fish. The Albatross and Woods Hole are responsible for the Northwest Atlantic between Nova Scotia and New York. Other research ships will in the near future operate in conjunction with ntw labs at Seattle, La Jolla, Calif., and Beaufort, N. C. This is but one facet of the nation's intensified oceano graphy effort conducted by some 20 government agencies and a host of state and pri vate Institutions, Including Oregon State University and the University of Washington, each of which operates its own research vessel. While other oceanograph ers focut on the overriding military aspects of the total effort, the million of the Albatrott it geared to the plight of the American fisherman and hit concern over depleted iitheries and riling foreign competition. As Donald L. McKernan. director of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, put It. "international fithery problem! are increating and erioutly threaten the wel fare of Canadian and U. S fishermen." Just as Pacific coast fish ermen have felt the impact of foreign competition off the Northwest and Alaskan coast for salmon, halibut and crab Hr M A ATA iimVniix BETTER LOWER VALIANT deal pUq r 1 uiiiiMUiiuMimtnmmuiuuumumii A VALIANT VALUE SALES STAMPEDE Family Council Kdllnr's Note: Thr r.milr Coon. rll consists n! a judge, psychia trist, three cl.rjrymen. a newspaper rrlltnr. a women's editor, and two writers. Farn article is a summary nf an actual case history. The 'mined reports on problems that have heen dealt with hv respon slble agencies and counselors. (Copyrlrht 19(3 Genera! Features Corp.) Mrs. L. S. - We can get back our rent and live rent free this way. Mr. L. S. - The new head aches we'll have won't make it worthwhile. Mrs. L. S. - We have a beautiful apartment with a large terrace. Our daughter's marriage in June leaves us with a large empty bedroom and bath. A middle-aged gen tleman with whom we are friendly has a studio apart ment in the building, and asked me whether we'd rent the room to him. Besides the income, we'd fill our empty home again. He's a cheerful person. Mr. L. S. - He's a little too cheerful for my taste. Let him stay cheerful where he is - I can manage without his brand of sunshine as well as without his rent check. We don't know much about this fellow: I can't find out what he does for a living, he never mentions his family, and I've seen him with a succession of lady . friends. I'd hale to worry about my wife joining the list. The Council: There are problems and sub-problems here. Among the latter, which we must push out of the way for now, are: Why should an apartment occupied by a married couple feel "empty" to Mrs. S., the wife? . . . And why doesn't Mr. S. trust his wife's love for him? If she's flighty enough to he in dan ger of joining this gay blade s "list," she can do so no mat ter where he lives. But the immediate problem presented speaks not of an inadequate marriage or notions of infi delity, but of Mrs. S. as po tential landlady to a male roomer. Forget it, Mrs. S. Keep that spare room ready for your daughter and her husband when they come back to visit. Or, if you need the money, seek a sub-tenant you and Mr. S. can agree on, one you know more about, and can count on to heed the minimum rules for peaceful coexistence. As for cheering the place up, why import sun beams which may fizzle? Warm up the flickering ones within your walls. from Japan and Russia, New England fisherman have been hurt by competitors crowd ing in upon their traditional fishing grounds, notably the Grand Banks and Georges Banks. A recent example of the re sult, said Fritz, is the decline of the ocean perch, or red fish, the mainstay of Glouc ester, Mass., for two decades. Last year the catch was 121 million pounds, lowest since 1944 and less than half the record catch of 258 million pounds taken In 1951. There's no mystery about this decline -it's due to over-fishing, Fritz said. . Some say that Russian fac tory ships which ply these wa ters contributed to this by nearly depleting the Canadian redfish two years ago. Now the Russians are said to be taking great quantites of whiling at the expense of American trawlers. "It's economic warfare. They're raiding our bread basket," says Walter Beat teay, skipper of the Albatross, and a native of Massachu setts. But back at Woods Hole, Dr. Edwards disagrees, saying too little is known as yet whether increased fishing or other factors are respon sible. Canada tried without suc cess to get the 13-nation In ternational Commission for North Atlantic Fisheries to limit the redfish catch. But it only standardized the size of mesh in nets five years ago to permit greater escape ment of immature fish. Before the decline of red fish, New England witnessed the virtual disappearance of the mackeral. For these and other economic reason's such as risir" costs of replacing aged fis..ing boats and inflat ed costs of marine insurance, New England's commercial fishing is in the doldrums. The U. S. hat slipped from second to fifth rank among the world't great fishing nations; and Massa chusetts hat dropped behind California and Alaska in value of itt annual catch. Washington rankt 9th and Oregon 14th. In fact, the U. S. hat be come a net importing na tion in term of fith. Since 1959 the value of fish im port! hat exceeded the val ue of the domestic catch. Lait year the value of im ports wat $473 million, the value of the domettie catch 381 million. The goat of sustained-yield fisheries is a long-range one. The sudden decline of the California sardine some years ago and the one-third dip in the supply of the Pacific Northwest's Dungeness crab last year point up its impor tance to the Pacific coast. just as the decline of the mackeral and redfish make it meaningful to New Eng land. Sustained - yields of desir able fish species, the Alba tross scientists believe, can only be achieved through STAR GAXER0 Ql 7- 7-26-31 33-48 67 6 TAUSUS apr. ai MAY 21 i36-3-MS 6o-76-8aW OIMINI MAY 25 JUNf 22 19-25.23-3(1 38-61-74 CANCIt (mS JUNt a 14-17.21-33 45-65-73 no AUG. 23 31 1-18-M-38 V68 72 81 88 visoo Sid sr. 2J -Br CLAY; R. POLLAN- JK Your Daily Activity Guide ' M According to the Sforf. 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