Canada. (Dept oOFisheries and Oceans. Scotia-Fundy Region. Fisheries Development Branch

PROJECT REPORT Fisheries Wiles and Oceans et Oceans

DFO - Lib MPO - Bibllotheque

1111 fl 10018481

Project Report

Fisheries Development Branch Scotia-Fundy Region Halifax, Nova Scotia

Canada

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OR PROGRESS REPORT AND

IS NOT TO BE CITED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM

THE BRANCH DIRECTOR. THE DATA MAY BE USED IN A

FORMAL BRANCH PUBLICATION AT A LATER DATE.

No. 5

CAPELINE PROJECT, CARAQUET,

JUNE 1 - JULY 17, 1978

FINAL REPORT BY: F.D. AEYELTS

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Final report on the Capelin project in Caraquet New Brunswick during the period of June 1st to July 17th, 1978.

• Introduction • Participating vessels • Overall production sheet of Lady Noreen • Charts of 3 trips made ▪ Processing companies • Conclusion

• Final report on the capelin project in Caraquet, New Brunswick during the period of June 1st, 1978 - July 17th, 1978.

Introduction

The activities of capelin fishing did not start until the first of June this year, which is quite late considering the period in which the capelin runs. Roughly from the beginning of May till the end of June, with some slight fluctuations.

This year nature created different circumstances, the weather was definately besides the normal conditions.' The ice departed late, thus contributing to colder air and water temperatures and maybe this might be a reason that the capelin stocks were far lower in this area than can be normally expected.

Some think that no more than 25 - 30% of the usual quantities were in and around the Baie des Chaleurs. Usually capelin can be found after spawning covering the vast beaches along lower Caraquet, Pokesudie Island, Miscou Island, Lameque Island and the Peninsula on which Shippegan is located. But this year it was different. Many local fishermen did not encounter these usual quantities, the beaches, the ponds and lagoons were empty of capelin.

Along the St. Lawrence seaway capelin has been reported on both sides, north shore and southshore, but since they are not commerically fished, we do not know what quantities were there, it might also have been less, although at IndustH:e Commerce, Rimouski, Quebec and Mr.Caron of the Ho.udrive (no. 5) district claims they were usual schools as were seen in previous years.

East of P.E.I. fishermen reported capelin but apparently it was not impressive at all, and it would not pay for Lady Noreen to steam up all the way to that area to end up not getting more than very likely $30. - per ton (compared to herring which sells at $180. to $210. - per ton).

The fifth of July Gemiml II returned from Newfoundland and reported no capelin after her second trip. On May 8th she caught with her herring seine 41 tons of capelin and after that she caught at Port au Port on June 25th 525 tons of capelin.

A second trip on June 30th proved that the large quantities were gone. With her first set she caught only 40 tons and the second set remained empty.

_ Also capelin was reported by a dragger at Natashquan Pt. Quebec to Gemini II.

This seems to coincide with the dates given by Industrie Commerce at Rimouski where the tailend of the capelin run was caught around the beginning of July.

Participating Vessels

In total 5 boats were to participate in this project, 2 small inshore boats 45 ft. L.O.A., Jo Ann Mick and Dawn H. and 3 large seiners, Lady Noreen, Ocean Leader, both from Caraquet and Nicole Daniel from Lameque. The 2 inshore boats were to fish together, pair seining and had two Scottish captains aboard, Andrew Flatt and David Tait to teach the owner skippers this method, unfamiliar to them.

The 3 large seiners were to fish with specially made up capelin seines. Eldege Chiasson, skipper of Lady Noreen and Fernand Friolet of Ocean Leader both had their seines ready, but it turned out that only Lady Noreen was ready to go. out. Ocean Leader was in the middle of a refit at the time of my arrival, her interior being modified. The entire operation of refit, spray painting her superstructure, cleaning and changing the oil of her hydraulic system and hauling for sonar repair took till the middle of July. She was on the slip from the 7th till the 12th of•July. Effectively this meant that she did not participate in the capelin project this year, but will hope-fully in 1979.

Nicole Daniel's seine was not ready till July 13th which also came down to having not fished for caplin either. The delay of the com-pletion of the seine was prolonged by management mistakes made by the net loft in charge.of the work. The 4th of July the floats and shirt had to be taken off and the seine had to be lengthened by some 180 feet (30 Fathoms).

Lady Noreen was the only seiner ready to fish capelin this year. She started to fish on June 1st off the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and landed her load of 150 tons at Connors Bros., Iles aux Morts, New-foundland.

The second day of June she returned and fished off Miscou Island, Birch Point and landed 32 tons. This load together with 169.37 tons caught the following day were landed at the wharf at Caraquet and processed by Carapec. So far no roebearers were among the catch and everything was reduced to fishmeal.

It looked quite promising because as the overall sheet shows, the-amounts-caught went up with the largest catches on June 5th and June 7th (192.00 tons). Yet the big decline was to come, having hit the tailend of the meager capelin run of thig year.

as TOTAL CATCH OF CARAPEC BELLEBAIE ABC CONNORS NSP OTHER ME LADY NOREEN IN LTEE BROTHERS SHIPPEGAN BOATS

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! .Birch Pt. 32.00 1 Birch Pt. 169.37 201.37 1 Birch Pt. 185.48 47.93 85.00 52.55 •1st trip 192.00 2nd trip 114.82 36.38 155.62 (35.75 • Birch Pt. 160.00 85.11 2)53.75 (25.32 3) 14.56

F Birch Pt. 192.00 42.03 150.46 No fishing Birch Pt. 184.81 86.41 54.00 44.40

) No fishing L Nothing Caught

Nothing Caught 3 Gaspe' 66.97 66.97

No fishing 5 No fishing 5 Nothing Caught 7 Nothing Caught

)tal Landing -1447.45 Tons

June 5th 1978, LADY NOREEN MADE two trips. The load of the last trip was processed the next day.

1st trip Carapec 36.38 tons ABC 155.62 tons total 192.00 tons

1) 1 short ton 2000 lbs. 2) bought from Carapec 2nd trip N.S.P. 35.75 tons 3) bought from Dawn H. (Fishmarket) N.S.P. 25.32 tons

Connors 53.75 tons Bros.

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At my time of arrival on Tuesday, June 6th I had to backtrack the quantities caught on previous trips and by whom they were pro-cessed. Initial communication difficulties with various companies as listed and Eldege's rather imcomplete log book caused a great deal of confusion. On June 5th, for instance 2 trips were made not clearly visible from the log book andIobtained information of the various companies. On the overall sheet this is explained.

The last large catch appeared on June 9th which was caught, like previous catches, off Birch Point on Miscou Island, 184.81 tons.

A rough day without fishing, some more trips around Miscou Island without any results and a final catch in Baie Gaspe'brought a meagre harvest of 66.97 tons, consisting of immature females.

Included are charts showing the trips made with their date and locations, so I will not go into detail describing the individual trips which can be found in the weekly reports.

The 13th oddly enough, seemed to be the last of it. Trips made after this date remained fruitless with a last search trip made on June 17th. Altogether during the first 17 days of June Lady Noreen landed a total of 1447.45 tons (all male fish). Actual fishing days numbered 13 which gives an average of 111.35 tons a day.

Processing Companies Belle Baie Ltee

The column of Belle Bale Ltee appears to be empty. As mentioned before all catches consisted of male species and were reduced to fishmeal, so Belle Baie's specialized capacity of handling and sorting out the roebearers was unfortunately not used.

Carapec

The first load they received, 201.37 tons (Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd) was used as a sample run and here from the following figures were derived. No other fish was mixed in.

. fishmeal rendered : 31.21 tons (15.5% of gross weight)

. fat content : 3-4%

. oil rendered : 3624.3 lbs (9/10 of 1% of gross weight)

. protein content of : 69%-70% fishmeal

. price payed per ton: $30.00

National Sea Products in Shippegan

. protein content : 65.43%

. fat content 7.15%

. fishmeal moisture content : 5.11%

. rendered oil 2%

. price payed per ton : $30.

During the processing of capelin the machinery was not cleaned prior to processing. To come up with accurate figures as far as purely capelin fishmeal analysis is not to be expected. Roughly 20% groundfish was added in order to get a thick enough cake out of the press and this changes the protein content from 70% tb 65%.

A.B.C.

The following figures were derived from the load received on Wednesday 7th (150.46 tons) and handled in cleaned machinery.

. fishmeal rendered : 315.3 lbs. per ton (15.76%)

. fat content

: 6 - 71/2% . rendered oil : 30 gallons (imperial) . fishmeal protein content: 65 - 68% . fishmeal humidity : 4% . price payed per ton : $30.

Other production figures are not accurate as far as showing true values of processed capelin due to mixed in groundfish or not cleaned machinery.

41.63 tons scrapfish 164.32 tons capelin 205.95 tons

. fishmeal rendered : 296.5 lbs. per ton (14.82%)

. rendered oil 1.5 gallons per ton

. fishmeal humidity : 4%

Connors Brothers, Ship egan

They claimed no oil has been rendered at all. All loads_were slightly mixed with cod and rendered 15% fishmeal of the gross weight. The moisture content of the fishmeal is 6.8%, fat contents 3-4%.

DATE LOAD OF SHORT FAT CONTENT FISHMEAL 15% OF -FISHMEAL TONS IN PERCENT GROSS WEIGHT IN HUMIDITY IN

TONS PERCENT

Ine 4/78 85.00 4 12.75 6.8 ine 6/78 53.75 4 8.06 6.8 lne V78 54.00 3. 8.10 6.8

The analysis of capelin fishmeal (with groundfish mixed in) made in the New Jersey laboratories show the following results.

. protein content 62.2%

. fat content 5.30%

. moisture content . 7.68%

. price paid per ton $32.=

Another batch had more capelin mixed in and less groundfish.

. protein content 68.3%

. fat content 6.25%

. moisture content 5.85%

The fishmeal analysis of the load of capelin landed on June 1st by Lady Noreen at'Iles aux Morts, Newfoundland show the following figures.

. protein content.

. fat content

. moisture content

69.9% 13.7% 4.47%

Towards the end of June another batch of capelin fishmeal was analysed.

. protein content

71.1% . fat content

11.34% . moisture content

5.98%

Conclusion

Probably a combination of factors caused a lower yield as was expected from this project. In the Baie des Chaleurs area the capelin ran in smaller quantities than normal so -we may conclude that the seiners were either too late with fishing (a month maybe) or not ready. At lease 3 skippers got actively involved with fishing and the others will be fully prepared as well for the next year. The processing companies are also set up to process

either roe and roebearers of fishmeal. July 20th Emilien Hache dropped by at Mr. W.W. Johnsens office and talked about his capelin fishing experience off Newfoundland and American Banki which revealed some very interesting features. His logbook clearly shows that definately capelin has been in various locations, such as Port au Port, American Banks and Natashquan. It shows that in the future we can start as early as the beginning of May or possibly even earlier carrying on till the first week of July. After 'that we should not have any expectations. And we all know that in fisheries it is often to be there at the right place and at the right time. As an example of illustrate this: 3rd set on June 25th 480 tons, Port au Port. So, we may conclude the potential is there, what was thought initially. Experience in the near future will show that.

Hopefully next year mother nature will create better circumstances and bring richer harvests to the fishermen of Caraquet.

F.D. Aeyelts

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Capeline project, Caraquet N.B., June 1-July 17, 1978 Final Report