danuary 7, 1987 BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR CASHES IN ON SMOKED SALMON SEABRIGHT, N.S. (CP) — Simon Krasemann hated being unemployed, so he borrowed $50 from his mother and built a smokehouse. When the final figures are in for 19867 barely three years after the loan, he expects to gross $120,000 selling his lightly salted smoked salmon to Atlantic fish markets and big-city delicatessens. “Unemployment insurance was great — but boring as hell,” says the former international fisheries observer. “I guess it was the old work ethic coming through.” Today, Krasemann keeps occupied running a business that is a cottage industry in the truest sense. Seabright Smokehouses Ltd. is a lot less imposing than it sounds — as a fish buyer from Genoa, Italy, recently found as he drove up and down the windy shore road in search of the green and white plant half-hidden by pines. Krasemann’s original updraft smokehouse, built with make-do materials and the know-how of his engineer father, has long since been replaced by the 65-square- metre building. Tourists on their way to the famous lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, just a few kilometres to the south, can easily mistake it for an oversized one-car garage. Krasemann, who still scales and cleans most of the five-kilogram salmon he smokes, was born in Britain but his parents moved him and his brother and sister to various world locales, including Barbados and New York, before settling in Nova Scotia about 15 years ago. LIKED OUTDOORS Young Simon entered Dalhousie University in Halifax to study philosophy and English literature — only to find he was happier outdoors, or more precisely, working on or near the sea. On this windy winter day, however, with bushy beard, curly locks, red tuque and ‘layers of lumberjack , plaid, Krasemann looks more like Paul Bynyan than a salty seadog, Articulate and d has an A amount of faith in himself and the way he views the world. Some might call him cocky; he prefers to describe himself as non-conformist. “I don't have much time for fools,” he says with an easy laugh as he admits that’s one reason he left his job as a government fisheries officer. He also wanted to be his own , The drone of the kiln in the whitewashed smokehouse is constant as Krasemann checks the 15 grey salmon from Labrador — each costing about $50 — laid out on the metal counter to thaw, e In winter, with the entertaining season and the lack of demand for horticulturists, Kathleen Krasemann gives her husband a hand in the spick-and-span room. Otherwise, he works alone, answering to no one but his customers. ‘Of course, he's found out that self-employment isn't all it’s cut out to be. For one thifig, he can't stand the paperwork. “I don't know numbers — I just know how to smoke salmon,” he says. As for the fish, a good size for smoking “is about 8-12 pounds,” Krasemann says. “Once you get any larger, you run into problems with oil content, muscle, texture of the The fillets are layered in fine-grain salt in plastic bins for about 10 hours before being soaked a half-hour in a brine. Then it’s on to wooden trolleys znd into a kiln for eight to 10 hours. He says his customers — from the Halifax supermarket a 20-minute drive north to the New York delis a jet flight away-~— appreciate gentle salting of his product, unlike the heavy hand used traditionally on Atlantic salmon. And they're willing to pay more for it. Where other producers may charge $20 a kilogram, Krasemann unashamedly asks for $29 to $34. “My philosophy is basically this: Smoked salmon is not something you buy often,” he explains. “So when you do buy it, you buy the best, maybe a little less, and you really enjoy it.” Part-timers' wages increase WINNIPEG (CP) — As the number ‘of Canadian part- time workers continues to account, part-time workers are well behind their full- time counterparts in terms of wages because of what he felt were essential differences between part-time and full- job attachment,” jobs and there usually is little he said in grow, the wage gap between full-time and part-time work- ers may not be as large as generally thought, says a University of Manitoba econ- omist who studied the issue. Prof. Wayne Simpson said he found certain factors ig- nored in previous research bring the wage difference down to about 10 per cent from the 27 per cent cal- culated by a 1983. federal commission on part-time em- ployment. Such things as education, age, sex, religion and most importantly, unionization total employment compen- sation. “Those things are the really big problems as far as part-time work is concern- ed,” said Simpson, who re- cently published his study in The Canadian Journal of Economics. The ranks of part-time time workers. “Generally, part-time em ployees tend to be younger, less well educated, are more likely to be female, especially married females, and are less likely to be unionized.” He found unionized part. time workers could earn as much as 42 per cent more workers have swell since 1983 when a fed- eral commission spent a year travelling, the country study- ing and making recommen- dations on the part-time work force. Among other play big roles in the wages earned by part-time employ- ment. But despite his research, he said when other factors such as fringe benefits and job satisfaction are taken into things, the ission rec- ommended that benefits available to part-time work- ers be improved. CITES DIFFERENCES Simpson said he was inter ested in taking a more de- tailed look at part-time to than part-time employees. In contrast, unionized full-time workers earn only 19 per cent more than non-unionized full-time workers. In the sample of workers Simpson analysed, only 17 per cent of the part-time em- ployees belonged to unions compared with about 38 per cent of the full time workers sampled. “There tends to be a high turnover rate in part-time explaining why unions have problems organizing _part- time workers. Despite concluding Cana- dian part-time workers are not as badly underpaid as previous research has indi- cated, Simpson stressed he is not saying they are well off financially. “That 10 per cent differ- ential is still important .. . I wouldn't downplay the issue at all.” LITTLE DATA There is still more re- search to be done on the situ- ation, he said, because there is very little hard data avail- able outlining what fringe benefits, if any, are available to part-time workers in Can- (7a. JANUA STARTS ‘CLEARANCE (Up to 50% OFF all Ladies Winter Stock All Coats & Jackets All Dresses Including “rt Dresses Suits, Mix & Match Wool Blend Sportswear all Belt: s Assorted & Blouses Selected Jewellery ge. 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