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Salmon fishing poor

The first opening of the

northern salmon fishe
“ayear that is predicted to be’
a “below-average year on
‘the 10-year cycle,’* has
ced catches even lower.
that expected. The depart-
‘ment of ‘fisheries has
‘responded. to the poor
salmon showing in the north,
by declaring a 10 day closure
for the northern salmon
- fishery, in both the Nass
area, and in area 5, which
includes the Grenville and

Principe Channels,
Both areas are‘ scheduled

to reopen July 1.

In the Nass River fishery,

. EDMONTON (CP) —

- Metis settlement leaders in

__ Alberta remain suspicious of

the provincial government

- despite weekend efforta to

patch a rift following a
seizure of files last week,

_ _“T atlll feel insulted and

degraded and we really don’t

1 wpect next,’’.

Allan Martineau of the

Paddle Frairie settlement ©

sald after .a. two-hour
meeting Saturday with
Social Services Minister Bob
Bogle. -

Bogle said he promised to
discuss.’ greater autonomy

Carter wants cutbacks.

TOKYO (AP) — US.
President Carter wants
Canada and the other major
industrial countries ‘at-
tending the Tokyo economic
summit conference to make
a joint effort to reduce oil
impotts,
officials aald Monday. .

- This might aggravate the
oil shortage that has caused
long gasoline lines in the
United States. But officials
said an import reduction
- would help avold worse
problems in the future. -

The officials spoke at the
end of the president's first
full day-in the Far East,

ery, in:

fisheries reports that-a total

of 410 gillnets caught 8,165
sockeye the first day. © The, ,
number of gillnets dropped -

dramatically as fishermen
decided the poor: salmod
showing was insufficient to

pating
second day. The total
sockeye catch for the
opening was 15,020 fish.
Barry Huber, the fisherles
field officer for the Nass,
says that all indicators point
toa very poor salmon season
inthe area... .
Heexplains that the return
of four-year-old fish to the

and selfdetermination for
the province's eight Metis
settlements at a meeting
July 9, :

The minister said all files
seized from six of the settle-
ments not required for a
pending cout case will be
returned ‘ng later than next

Friday"- He “ssid |‘ Om-

budsman Randall Ivany will
conduct an independent in-
nquiry into the seizure in-
cident. .

“*A lot of people back home
are not going to be satisfied
by what we can report back:

during which he conferred
about energy and -Viet-
namege refugees with Japa-
nese Prime Minister
Masayoshi Ohira and at-
tended a banquet given by.

_Emperor Hirghito, 78.
administration ©

An administration official
said Carter stressed to Ohira
the need for countries to
admit or provide ald for the
tens of thousands of
homeless Vietnamese.

The official also sald the
leaders discussed trying to
get assistance; from the.
government in. Hanei,
“where the baais of the
problem resides,”

Cutting, corners |

causing problems

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
Some independent Interior
vegetable growers are
destroying the industry by
circumventing marketing
regulations, says the
‘ n of the Interior
Vegetable Marketing

Agency.

Bennett Hove sald officials
are more tightly enforcing a
British Columbia Marketing
Act regulation that says
vegetables like tomatoea,
_cabbages, carrots and onions
must sport tags from the
B.C. Vegetable Marketing
Board before being sold.

. Some ere are refusing

to e tags.
ntRe market is becoming
most unstable because of
these people so we have
decided to re-establish this
rule to give us control and
knowledge of where . this
produce is going," he sald.
“These pirates myst be con-
trolled in the interest of the
eng a, ae
e tags are
from the marketing board If
the beard approves the
marketing of the produce
and must be attached to each
package.

However, Gerald Niessen,
president of the United Fruit
rowers, a group opposed
central marketing
organization, said after a
weekend meeting of about
100 growers that the regu-
lation is dictatorial and runs
counter to the principles. of
free enterprise.

He said growers should be

. allowed to sell their produce

whenever and to whomever

they please. .
Niessen, who manages a

600-acre orchard, vineyard

and: vegetable farm near

Osoyoos, B.C., said his boss
would "plow his onions back
into the fleld before buying
those tags."

“There will be a con-
frontation," he said,

Hove gave one example of
two truckers arriving in
Prince George, B.C., with
loads of similar produce
when the market could only
handle one truckload.

The result was a price war
which hurts the grower‘ and °
which may give consumers
temporarily lower prices but
leads to confusion when the —
prices go back up, he gaid.

- the eivil-servants."”  “*”

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| SECOND SECTION

Nass last year, which ls'used
‘as an indicator for the return
of this year's five-year-olds,
was about 25 per cent of what
had been predicted. If the
same ratio of return applies
to this year's salmon, Huber
says the fishery could. be’

. “really a disaster.”’

In that case the fisheries
department would place ita
+ first priority on achieving its

hoped for escapement : of

180,000 fish, but Huber says -

the escupement would most
Ilkely range from ‘poor to
barely adequate.” He points

‘to the 1974-75 season which

saw an escapement of only

to them,” said Martineau, a
spokesman for the
‘Federation of Metls Set-
tlements delegation that met
with Bogle.

“A” lot of our time was
spent discussing what we
couldn’t discuss — how and
why our files were seized by

refused to discuss the file:
seizure “because that's a
matter pending before the
courts... I understand the
examinations for discovery
will start the middle of
July,”

The official said no
decisions were made arid
that the refugee question will
be a major topic discussed at
the summit conference, ;
_ With half of the day's
meetings devoted to energy,
one official told reporters:

“What we are after is a

. collective effort on the part

of the countries’ at the
summit to reduce energy
imports and we will’ be
working with those countries
as we have in the past to
come up with some common
approach to doing this.”.

But he said the U.S. will
not enter the summit with a
preconceived plan on the size
of a reduction,

Tn addition to Canada and.
the U.S., the summit on
Thursday and Friday will be
attented by leaders of

Britain, Japan, West Ger-.

many, France and Italy.

Rodeo |

horses

run amuk

' ASHCROFT, B.C, (CP) —
Rodeo cowboys saddled up
for an unexpected midnight
roundup Sunday night after
about 20 bulls and horses led

’ their own version of the Ash-

croft Stampede with a run
through town.

As the animals munched
their way across lawns in
this southern Interlor
community, the RCMP
rounded up several riders
who had competed in the
three-day rodeo to corral the
wandering herd.

“We got them all back
where they were supposed to
go,” said one officer.

* The animals apparently

were only finishing the job
they started Saturday night .

‘when a visiting bear caused

horses and bulis to panic in
their enclosure. The bulls
broke several fence posts,
but didn't escape. The bear
ambled back into the woods.

by
- Bogle confirmed that he

75,000 salmon on the Nasa. —

Firat in area 5, is
described as ‘normal’ with 16
gillnets dividing 600 sockeye
and 150 chum salmon.

Fisheries Field Officer
Randy Branluck, says that

the area 5 fishery will. ob-.

serve the 10 day. clogure of
the north: cogst salmon
season because of

fears that many of the boats . :

which normally fist the Nass
area would overcrowd area 5
fit were open,

Branitck adds that the.

area 5 fishery does not
become fully productive
until the end of July.

He was referring to the.

preliminary questioning of
witnesses in a $30-million

claim by the Metis for oil

royalties collected on their
settlements in the last’ 40

ears, .
The Metis claim they are

entitled to fill miberid rights |
becauseof reguistions in the

1989 Metis Betterment Act
that set up thelr colonies.
The government clalms they
are entitled only ta surface
rights. .,

“This casé has been
hanging over our heads for
five years now,” Bogle aaid.

“Until itis settied we cannot. .
amendments to

make any
the Metia Betterment Act."

Bogle said in the
legislature the files were
selzed last week: at the
request of Edmonton lawyer

Jean Cote, who is handling -

the government's defence of
the court action. .

Martineau said = the
federation would like tosee a
law society investigate the
ethies of Cote's role in the
affair,

But lawyer Dennis Roth,

representing the federation,

‘sald he will not recommend

such action now “becawe we
have no direct evidence that
Mr. Cote acted improperly at
any time,” :

Tho court case centres
around a claim by 76-year-

‘old federation secretary

Adrian Hope of Kikino that
Social Credit welfare

‘minister W, W. Cross

promised the Metis in 1942
they would get any revenues

from mineral rights on the -

1.2 million acres occupied by

” 4,250 Metis on the eight
_eelontes,

Martineau sald the
government still lreats Metis
as illiterate children who
don’t need to be told what is
done with thelr money. |

He sald that until lafe last
year the settlements weren't
given a full accounting of the
Metis Betterment Trust
Fund, set up almost 40 years
ago and administered by
Bogle's Metis development
branch.

When the first statement

finally arrived it left almost *

more questions unanswered
than answered.

He sald the statement -

shows an $8600 cperating
loss and a completely
Unexplained §282,000 in
adjustments during the year
which depleted the b by
about $368,000 toa balance of
$1.1 million. .
Revenues in intereat from
trust funds amounted’ to
about $87,000 compared with
$125,700 in 1977 but the
names of the trust funds and
the yleld from each is

psing.

“We are unable to make
any sense out of these figures
even sith the help of our
bank ‘™onager.”

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