The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 29, 1998 - BS TERRACE STANDARD CHRISTIANA WIENS — ee a oe cs ete wate ee ee ee ee a 'SKEENA. ANGLER. *. ROB BROWN Test your fishing | know-how Us time for the Skeena Angler’s Riverboat Daze Quiz. Sharpen your pencils and your wits (although the latter don’t have to be honed to a keen edge to pass this little test) and hurt your head over the following fishy conun- drums. 1. Bycatch is the amount of fish, or other crea- tures, killed in a fishery that are not the target of that fishery, and, therefore, go to waste. Two famous examples of bycatch are the sea turtles caught in the shrimp fishery off the east coast of the U.S, and the dolphins caught by tuna fishers. Bycatch can also refer to fish of the same family. For example, fishers attempting to catch sockeye salmon catch summer coho and steel- head. Which of the following Gshers will have the largest bycatch: a) a sport fisher with a barbless hook (b) a saltwater sport fishing guide (c) a gillnetter working the approach waters to the Skeena River? 2. Which of the following Scenarios represents the best economic use of the resource? (a) Scenario One: A summer steclhead is caught in a gillnet ai the mouth of the Skeena. Commer- cial fishers are required by law to report all steel- head caught to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Market fishers know that if large num- bers of steelhead are reported, fishing openings will be reduced. Like so many of his fellows the gillnetter takes the fish home. It winds up on the barbecue. (b) Scenario Two; Another summer steelhead” has the good fortune to reach the mouth of the Skeena when the commercial fishery is closed. Over the next few weeks the fish makes it as far as the Old Bridge in Terrace where it is snared in a gillnet set by First Nations fishers using Second Natious technology. Unlike the sockeye caught in the same net, which are sold to white folks, the steelhead is smoked and eaten. (c) Scenario Three: A third steelhead, fifteen pounds and as bright as a newly minted coin makes it upriver to Shames Bar where it is hooked by a German Sportsman who has spent over a thousand dollars on air fare and related travel expenses and is paying his guide a couple of hundred dollars a day. This Gentleman will spend another thousand bucks on fishing tackle and other goods before he leaves. After the fish is released virtually unharmed it makes its way up- stream, past native gillnets to Kitwanga where if is hooked and released again by a sportsman from Smithers who spends a thousand dollars a year on lackle and licenses, gas and food related to the sport he loves. By late September the same fish has made it to the Babine River where it is hooked and released again, this time by an Amer- ican Industrialist who is paying $3500 a week for the privilege of angling on the fabled Babine River. The Gish is released and spawns the nexl spring. 3, Which of the above represents the most ecologically friendly use of the resource: (a), ©), or (c)? 4. Coho salmon, abundant only a few years ago, are headed for extinction as a result of a hundred ‘years of overfishing by commercial fishers, habitat destruction, and dramatic changes in the marine habitat. As Scnior Mucky Muck of DFO do you: . (a) Shut down all net fisheries where coho are a bycatch. Severely restrict salt water sportfishing operations that impact coho. Remove all in river gillnets, ban bait and insist that freshwater sport- fishers use barbless hooks and release all coho. (b) Allow commercial fishing openings off the Nass where coho are no better off than they are in the Skeena drainage. Do nothing about the First Nations gillnets fishing the length of the Skeena, and close down the fucrative low impact sport- fishery for the summer. - (c) Initiate a task force and study the problem. Okay, let’s see haw we did. - The answers are 1.(c) 2.(c) 3.(c) 4.(a), IF you got them alf right, move to the head of the riffle. IT. you got three out of four good. If you got every . question wrong you may wish to consider a career’ dn fisheries management with the Department of _ Fisheries and Oceans. : - YOU GOTTA WATCH out 638-7283 She’s going big time SHE'S QUITE POSSIBLY provincial material. Fourteen-year-old Emily Arndt has been asked to try out for the girls provincial soccer team next spring. Thirty-six players from eight different B.C, Summer Games teams were chosen to try out. Organizers announced the list of qualifiers zone by zone, selecting qualifiers. Arndt’s name was one of the last called. She had no idea she was about to be chosen. Her team scored only two goals during the Summer Games and she didn’t think provincial team scouts had much to go by. “T sai and watched as other player's names were chosen,” said Amdt. ‘‘l was shocked when they called me, I just sat there.’? But shock soon led to excitement and the realization she had a lot of training ahead of her. Well, more than she usually does. She trains with her coach Nick Kolias three, sometimes four times a week. But she also takes the ball out before dinner, on breaks and whenever she can to work in a little more practice time. ; *'T just love soccer,” said Arndt with an infectious grin. “The playing is just all there,”’ Amdt went on to say that soccer is just one of those sports that you can make the most of. If you want to stand on the sidelines you can, but if you want to go for it, it’s up to you she said, And Amdt has a reputation for playing hard. She pulls down her knee length sporis sock to show off a football- sized bruise. ‘‘That’s going right through my shin pad,’’ she said. ‘‘T would have broken my leg if I wasn’t wearing protection,’’ She has also sustained multiple scars, numerous sprained fingers, a broken toe at last year’s summer games and broken thumb the only time coach Kolias ever put her in goal, “That was the last time he did that,” she laughed. Her favourite position is centre forward, because she gets to move fast and score a lot af goals — six hat tricks so far this year. - Her favourite move is the slide tackle, a down-and-dirty play banned in the women’s league. Laughing, Arndt tells a story of a game she played against an adult team. ‘‘I slide tackled the doctor who gave birth to me. She told me I had to show some respect.” Though Emily would like to play professionally some day, she knows that living in Terrace has some dis- advantages. ‘‘Other players can practice 12 months a year,’ said Emily, who said she has a little bit of soccer withdrawal when the season ends. Last winter she worked out indoors and she helped coach Kolias train youngsters in his winter workshop. ‘‘Practic- ing indoors actually helps with ball control because you don’t have a lot of room to work with,’’ she said. She also referees the youth league, and helps with work- shops and coaching whenever she can. She started playing at nine against 12-year-olds because there weren’t enough female players in her age group. She’s trained with coach Kolias ever since then, sometimes in her own age group, sometimes with older girls when the younger competition was too easy. ; ‘But I wish I started when I was six," said Arndt who thinks she has a lot of work to do before the provincial qualifiers, ‘‘I’d be that much better by now.” By Bees "LOOKIN' LIKE A PRO: That’s Emily Arndt in her new provincial team T-shirt that she got at the Summer Games in Maple Ridge. Arndt qualified for next spring's try outs despite a disappointing turnout for the zone seven under 14 girls team. Se ge HE’S A STRONG ONE: Kiel Davis brought home one of Terrace's two gold medals. Davis threw the discus 44.91 metres in his first throw, wowing all his com- petitors before they stepped up to the plate, Davis also placed fifth in javelin. B.C. Summer Games results Double medalist Lynn for those quiet ones. Levoic won a gold and sil- At least that’s what Kiel Davis's competitors were saying after the 15-year-old Greenville boy who goes to Skeena High Schocl won the gold discus medal in his first throw, ‘‘I just started practicing this spring too,’ he said quietly with a huge smile on his face. Another local track and field competitor in Maple Ridge July 23-26 was Kolten Tackama in the 1500 metre steeplechase and 3000 metre race (eleventh and sixteerith), Jared Connaitti placed seventh in the boys long jump, Deserai Vandevelde placed tenth in the girls 100 metre and Kaliopi Kolias —_ placed seventh and tenth in the 100 and 400,metre races. ver in the westem equestrian division. Audra Jobnson placed fourth in the equestrian jumping competi- tion. Tennis competitors Deane Jenion and Chuck and Dianne Cey placed eighth in the ladies open doubles and the masters mixed doubles. Two wrestlers, Angie Mcrae atid Ajit Jaswal com- peted in the zone seven wrestling team. Their teams placed seventh and sixth. Cadet cyclists David Andruezyn and Lance Pierce placed in the top twenty, junior off road cyclists Jon Lambert, Kyle Mason, Chris Scarborough and Brandon Smoley came in sixth, thirteenth, seventh and fourteenth. Roger Chicoine The boys basketball team placed sixth, the boys soccer team placed seventh out of eight teams, girls soccer placed last, boys softball came in seventh, girls soft- ball came in fourth, boys volleyball came in last and the Lakelse Water-ski club placed fourth. Terrace’s Roger Chicoine won silver In parachuting, completing 15 new jumps. . Tennis trouble in Stanley Park . VANCOUVER’S STAN- LEY PARK open was Richard Kriegt’s last tennis tournament of the season and he wanted to win. And after winning his first two rounds of singles play in the July 25 to Aug. 2 tournament, he wasn’t doing too badly. But then he got to the third round, looked up, and saw Anton Rudjac — the same guy he’d lost to in bis last two meels. But the Stanley Park open registered 128 players and what are the chances? Not great, but . there Rudjac was and Krieg] had to make the best of it. The games started out well, with Krieg! leading 4- 2, 5-3 in each match. Stocked with long ralleys and hard hitting serves the — games were tough and ended 6-2, 7-6. In doubles play, Kriegl' and his partner Alex Kotai : lost in the quarter finals 6-3, 6-4, ‘The games were terrible. We started play late Tues- day at 8 p.m.,”” Kricgl said, after they waited for misscheduled match ahead of them to clear the courts. “We just weren’t prepared mentally once we finally got on the court.’' Kriegl played in the recreational Terrace Open Tournament at the Halliwell courts during Riverboat days last weekend. He com- peted in singles and doubles competition with Jeremy Lafontaine against some- time doubles partner Alex Kotai. Score Board Women’s Soccer July game results to July 23,1998 duly 9 Ariistio Halr/Northern Synge. 4 — Blessings Children's Wear 2 duly 14 jasis Sparts Club 2 — Blessings Children’s Wear 0 Artistic Halr/Northern Svngs. 2 — Central Flowers 0 duly 16 ‘Team Sexsmith 2 — Central Flowara 1 duly 21 Anistic Heir/Northern Svngs. 1 -— Almwood Contracting 1 Oasis Sports Club 4 — Team Sexamith 0 ; : duly 23 Central Flowers 2 — Blessings Children’s Wear 2 Artistlo Hair/Northern Svngs. 4 — Oasis Sports Club 2 as