Caption
The fear of a surplus has already been dispelled. Eager U.K. buyers snapped up 700,000 cases of the choice red sockeye hours after Britain lifted currency restrictions on fish.
Release Date
October 28, 1958
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lunney, GarCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Round dip nets known as brailers, scoop the fish out of pocket of the purse onto seiner. Biggest individual haul was 14,323 fish in one set taken by the Otard. Sockeye is number one fish in B.C.'s $65 million fishing industry.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86429
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176825
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
B.C.'s 1958 Sockeye run is spectacular testimony to the success of the Hell's Gate fish ladder built in the Fraser Canyon in 1945. Installed to facilitate salmon migration to the Fraser River Basin, the fishway is receiving top honours in this year's unprecedented salmon run to the Adams River, tributary of the Fraser. Experts estimate some 15 million silvery sockeye migrated; more than two million are expected to reach the spawning grounds. Purse seiner above, having completed a "set", is held steady by power skiff to prevent it from drifting back into net.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86430
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176826
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
At full flood, the take topped one million a day. Seiners such as Pacific Raider, above, average over 4,500 fish in a 12-hour run.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86431
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176827
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The heavy catch is hard on the nets but no one is complaining. B.C.'s fishermen have reaped a $l5 million harvest from the deluxe crop. Above, wharf at Port Renfrew, west coast Vancouver Island.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86432
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176828
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
When the seiners return at 6 p.m. the gill netters (manned by a crew of two) go out. Gill net above held 500 sockeye, worth about $750 to fishermen.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86433
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176829
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The record catch is a bonanza for B.C.'s 12,000 fishermen who wait four years for the Adams River run. This year every man who can qualify for a fishing license is out to get his share of the blue-chip fish.
Date
September 1, 1958
Accession Number
LAC-NFB86434
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176830
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #181: Mightiest Migration in Modern History: B.C.'s Fabulous Sockeye Run
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
October 28, 1958
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
The fear of a surplus has already been dispelled. Eager U.K. buyers snapped up 700,000 cases of the choice red sockeye hours after Britain lifted currency restrictions on fish.
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