Low and behold
miracles never case. For
the first time in livin
memory the Provincia
Fishing Regulations are out
right on time.

In my business of selling
fishing tackle, it certainly is
a pleasure to hand out the
new regulations when
issuing a new license.

There are four new
changes in our Region 6 or
Skeena Region, as it is more
commonly called. In our
own backyard, there are two
changes. The Lakelse River
has had the ‘Fly Fishing
Only’ area altered. In 1976
the entire Lakelse River
was restricted to fly fishing
only after April 1 until May
31. For 1977-78 the fly fishing
area is restricted to that
section of river which ex-
tends from the C.N.
Railroad trestle to Lakelse
Lake, The 1978 opening date
for fly fishing will start on
March 1 rather than April 1.
With the fly fishing area
restricted to the upper
section of the Lakelse River,
it now means that the lower
river is open to conventional
angling methods. This
change is intended to give
anglers greater opportunity
of choice and experience,
while providing some
measure of prolection for

“ spawning steelhead.

Before going on to the
other changes, I believe it is
important to explain why
this change came about. The
Northwest Chapter of the
steelhead Society has been
actively lobbying the Fish
and Wildlife Branch to open
up the lower Lakelse River
to conventional angling.
Originally the entire river
was restricted to fly fishin
only ‘to: protect steelhead,”
which~‘were - declining in
part, from over-harvesting

y the sports fisherman. I
have heard of stories of
fishermen afew years back,
packing off Sunny sacks of
steelhead and many of them
dark and unfit for eating. It
is this sort of disrespect for

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ate Se’ nteretbet

The Northwest Chapter is
well aware of the past
mistreatment of the spring
steelhead fishery. For this
reason, they asked the

Branch to only consider
opening the lower Lakelse
River for a one year trial
basis. If the fishermen
abuse the opportunity to fish
the lower river by taking
dark fish and killing over
their limits, the Chapter will
be urging the Branch to
again restrict the lower
river to fly fishing only.

Those of you who fish the
lower Lakelse River can
support the Northwest
Chapter of the Steelhead
Society by releasing ail dark
steelhead you hook and as
well, consider releasing the
majority of bright fish you
put on the beach. Rather
than making a meat fishery
out of it, as it was in the
past, enjoy the thrill of
ooking, playing and
releasing a steelhead,
imowing that if you do so you

will be doing your part to:

maintain a healthy
population of steelhead in
the Lakelse River. As well,
if you see abuses, talk ta
your fellow angler and
explain to them what they
are doing wrong. If we want
the lower river to slay open,
it is up to all of us to police
and look after it.

The second change for our
area is the declaration of the
Clore River, tributary to the
Copper River, as a ‘Special
River’.

Qn the other regulation
changes, the Kispiox River
has been restricted to a
‘catch and release’ fishery
from August 15 until the end
of September. This means
that you must use a lure

_ with a single barbless hook

“nd release all fish that you
catch alive and with as little -

harm as possible. This
regulation is designed to
protect the huge world-
amous steelhead of the
Kispiox River.

The fourth change is the
closing of the Bear River to
all angling and that portion
of the Sustat River, above

a" the Bear, to all angling.

_ Ona province wide basis,
a major cha
made in steelhead annual

4 catch limits. The annual
#4 limit for residents has been

“| reduced from 40 steelhead to
=] 20 and on any individual
“| river an angler can kill only
“| 10 steelhead. For example,
“| if youkill 10 steelhead on the
K fo per River, you cannot
1 fis

for or kill any more
steelhead during that
calendar year on the Copper
River, Non-resident anglers
may only kill 10 steelhead in
a total season. .

And finally, in aneffort to
assist fisheries
management, it is now
mandatory to return all
steelhead punchcards at the
end of
whether you catch any
steelhead or not. Again the
Steelhead Society played a
major role in these changes.
For more than four years,
the parent b of the
Steelhead Society has
pushed for a 10 steelhead
river limit, mandatory
returns of punchcards and
more recently, a 20 fish
season limit. While many

anglers may view these .
‘ changes as an infringement

upon their rights, we must
understand that if we are
going to maintain healthy
populations of steelhead in
our rivers we must be
prepared to reduce our
demands upon the resource.

Expanding numbers of logal
and alien anglers, along
with negative en-

vironmental changes, are
putting- increased pressure
on the steelhead stocks
throughout B.C, As with our
economy, we cannot stretch
the steelhead resource to its
limit. Restraint and com-
mon sense must prevail,
otherwise steelhead runs
will continue to decline.
Since I have made
reference to ‘dark’ fish and
‘releasing’ fish, I would like
to expand on the subject a
little more. 1 continue to see
andhear of anglers catchin
and killing dark steelhead.
While the law does not
discriminate against
anglers killing dark fish,
myself along with many
hundreds ‘of steelhead
anglers are of the opinion
that once steelhead become
‘dark’ or spawning condition
they should be home free.
They are very close to

spawning -at’ this stage of -

eir lifecycle and are poor
quality as table fare. They
are however fun to cate
and as long as we release
the majority of them, rivers
such as the Lakelse, Copper
Kalum and Cranberry wi
continue to produce quality
steelhead angling for many
years to come. 7

e has been.

the fiscal year, .

MATTI NYSTROM of 4726 Loen Avenue in Terrace proudly displays the

20 pound 2 ounce Dolly Varden that he took while ice fishing at Meziaden
Lake a week ago Monday. He was using an Abu spoon ona 25 pound test
line. This is the biggest taken by Matti in 30 years of fishing. Bert Goulet
ot the Northwest Sportsman weighed in the prize as a verification.

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conservation that ruins it for
everyone,
B.C’S RICH -- AND
SOMETIMES SHOCKING
-_ HORSE RACING
HERITAGE

prepared by the B.C. Sports
Hall of Fame

In a matter of weeks,
Exhibition Park will come
alive with cries of ‘‘there
they go’’ and once again the
sport of kings will draw

ousands to the track, al] of
them looking for a way of
turning a $2 wager, into a
windfall.

Horse racing goes back to
the earliest days of B.C.
sports history and it oc-
cupies a large section in the
B.C. Sports Hall of Fame
complete with a life-sized
statue of the famous George
Royal.

However, unlike today
where computers run tote
boards atid everything is
sleek and modern, those

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OPPER

early days of racing were
quite something else. __

The sport many times
wasn't what you'd call a
“Teputable pastime” and
like any other endeavor
where a fast buck could be
turned, it drew perhaps
more than its fair share of
characters, some of whom
were not above painting a
fast steed to disguise it as an
unknown and thereby cash
in on long odds.

To get a rare, humovous
and sometimes shocking
account of B.C.’s early
horse racing days, one and
only one, book is a must.

It is “A Hoofprint On M
Heart’, written by well
known Toronto sport-
swriter, Jim Coleman
(McClelland and Stewart,
$4.05).

Coleman has penned a
beautiful piece of work and

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on sports

REPEAY|

even though it was written

in 1971, it will be just as
worthwhile in 1991 because
the days about which he
writes are now frozen in
time.

Coleman was born in
Winnipeg but spent a con-
siderable part of his early
life on the west coast, in
particular Victor:a, where

e attended boarding
school. And when he wasn’t
attending school, he was
attending to the needs of his
admitted first love, horse
racing.

In giving background to
the earliest days of Victoria
racing, Coleman says,
“They say if you dumped an
Englishman on a tropical
island, he'd found two en-
terprises: a tea plantation
and a race track, Although,

_

NAW

Montreal and Toronto may
claim priority in Canada, it
is ‘recorded that race
meetings were conducted in
Victoria as early as 1860.
Those antediluvian race
meetings took place on
Beach Hill...by the time I
had lodged in University
School, Beacon Hill Park
had become a tryst for
audacious young lover-
s...however, there was
racing at the Willows and
some emigrant heirs to the
Coventry estates in England
had built a one-mile course
at Colwood, ten or fifteen
miles from downtown
Victoria.”

Coleman tells many tales
about his days. at Colwocd
and some of his ob-
servations are certainly on
the unusual side. A farmer,
he says, raised turkeys in
the track’s infield and the
birds were permitted to run
loose all year. Frequently
the turkeys became excited
by the crowd’s cheering and
they ran wildly onto the
track. He says that a jocke
once won a race there, wit
atom turkey perched on his
shoulder and his horse was
thus disqualified for
carrying more than the
statutory five pounds of
overweight.

Another tale concerns a ’

Scottish lady who owned

horses. When one of her
horses was running, she'd
stand in the infield, wildly
shaking her tartan ankle-
length skirt while singing a
Highland war-chant.

The stories come quickly
one after another, like
bullets out of a machine gun.
Sometimes, you get a little
dizzy and you have to stop to
rethink what you've just
read,

Editor's Quote Book

Enthusiasm is at the bot-
tom of all progress. With it
there is accornplishment.
Without it there are only

alibis. Henry Ford

Ltd.

Have a

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THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 6, 1977, PAGE AIS, ,

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Birds protected
in Canada

which feed entirely, or
chiefly, on insects. These
birds are protected at all
times of the year. ek

The third category, *
migratory non-game birds,”
includes albatrosses, auks,*<
bitterns, gannets, grebes, .-
guillemots, gulls, herons, -
loons, petrels, . puffins, ...
shearwaters and terns. All

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of these birds are protected, |;

Under the Migratory
Birds Convention Act the
government of Canada is
responsible for the
protection of migratory

irds which inhabit Canada
for all, cr part, of the year.
There are three categories
of birds protected under the
Migratory Birds Treaty and

el

In the first category,
migratory game birds, are
included wild ducks, geese
and swams; cranes; rails,
including coots; shorebirds
such as curlew, avocet,
turnstones, woodcock and
yellowlegs; pigeons, in-
eluding doves and wild
pigeons. There are open
seasons in British Columbia
for ducks, geese, including
brant, snipe, pigeons and
mourning doves, but not for
swams, cranes and
shorebirds. In the second
category, migratory in-
sectivorous birds, are in-
eluded such birds as
chickadees, flickers,
grosbeaks, larks, swallows,
waxwings, woodpeckers and
all other perching birds

Golf course ‘
eould open te

ale,

J

to hunt them or collect their ~
eggs. os
The provincia] govern--,
ment issues hunting licences °
but in order to hunt
migratory game birds, it is
mandatory to obtain a.
permit from the govern-| =
ment of Canada. This may.”
-be purchased at any post ~
office. Information...
regarding open seasons may, .
be found in the B.C. Hunting *-
Regulations. Ff
For publications regar-
ding the federal migratory..;
birds regulations, apply to*.
Director, Canadian Wildlife’,
Service, 400 Laurier Avenue <-
West, Ottawa, Ontario K1A™
owl. a

reached this week that’:

would allow the course to...

open shortly. Stas
Plans are now underway.

There is a __ strong
possibility that Terrace
golfers will be on the links of
Thornhill Golf and Country

Club within the very near by several local:i-
future. businessmen to purchase
Cari Cederberg, this property from Northern

president, said an interim

: Securities and continue the<=
agreement will hopefully be .

operation of the golf course:

The District of Terrace
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will
be held on proposed Land Use Contract
Modification By-law Project No. ADP-02-7708.
The proposed Land Use Contract Modification is
concerned wiih the following area:

Folio 02511.000, Block 33 (except the part
subdivided by Plan 6496), District Lot 362,
Range 5, Coast District, Pian 967 and the
west half of Block 34, District Lot 362,
Range 5, Coast District, Plan 967, Street
Address 3629 Eby Street and 4830 & 4836
Straume Avenue.

The general intent of the proposed Land Use
Contract Modification By-law is to modify Land
Use Contract No. 8720S between the District of
Terrace and the Roman Catholic Episcopal
Corporation of Prince Rupert fo:

(a) extend the date of completion for con-
struction of all items listed on Schedule “L’
to September 30th, 1977;

Oe ae

(b) add to Schedule “L” the requirement that
all works not constructed by September
30th, 1977 shall be completed by the District
of Terrace at the sole expense of the Roman
Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Prince

Rupert,

The proposed Land Use Contract Madification
By-law may be viewed by any and all persons
requiring more specific information, during
regular business hours at the Municipal Hall.

ae

which means that itis illegal’: - -

a a rs

ee ee eared

eRiding lessons — registration for pupils
for riding lessons this
Friday, Saturday &
Sunday. Everyone

eHorseshoeing — welcome.

eEnglish & Western tack and clothing

eSchoo! horses available for children & nan-horse owners
Coniact Nina Kavanagh or Harry Houlden

638-1798

The Public Hearing shall be held in the
Municipal Council Chambers on Monday, April
25th, 1977 at 7:00 p.m. |

Complete line of G entals

Any and all persons having an interest in the
proposed Land Use Contract Modification By-
law Project No, ADP-02-7708 shall take notice
and be governed accordingly.

Lawn Mowers Compressors Spreaders

Roto Tillers Lawn Rakes Lawn Rollers
Lawn Aireators Lawn Seeders Ladders

=| 3010A Kalum = Phone 635-3038

APES A ESTE

G.W, Buchanan |
Clerk-Adminisirator..
DISTRICT OF TERRACE