an i a _.__.» Women’s Re-entry Project | THINKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO WORK? . CONSIDER SKILLED TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY! One Day Seminar Friday, October 18, 1991 . 9:30 to 4:00 Terrace Women's Resource Centre With Dr. Norma Kerby, college instructor and planning consultant ne _ | FREE -- NO OBLIGATION. : «; Find out why women like you are choosing to enter career fields like @ © engineering, carpentry, mining, welding, forestry and logging, health = sciences, plumbing, electronics and the construction and transportation industries. LIMIT -- 35 -- COME EARLY! Seminar topics include an overview of technical and trades opportunities, training options, specific information on a variety of fields like forestry, = carpentry, drafting, engineering. Meet women from the Terrace area who % work in “non-traditional ” jobs. o There will also be a description of a new 18 week course for women ms interested in trades and technology, and application forms will be available. Sy See NO OOP GT SY PORT SEE For those women interested in further exploring trades and technology, an 18 week course will be held starting October 28. There is no fee and a training allowance and child care funding may be available to you. Topics covered in the 18 week course include: introduction to computers...transferring the skills you already have...women CAN do math...trades orientation...stress management...women in business...work placement...resume writing...films, speakers, hands-on projects and more. To be eligible for the 18 week course, participants should be in need of assistance to enter or re-enter the workforce, interested in upgrading their math, science and communication skills, have an interest in a non- traditional or technical field, and willing and able to complete an 18 week training program including 4 weeks of work experience. FOR MORE INFORMATION about the one-day seminar or the 18 week course, contact: Charlynn Toews, coordinator Women’s Re-Entry Project ‘Terrace Women's Resource Centre 4542 Park Avenue, Lower Level Terrace B.C. as V8G 1V4 Phone 638-0994, ask for “Char” Dave Parker has put Skeena tront ss centre Mm in Victoria. “Kitimat’s 1993 BC Winter Games + Terraceview Expansion « Mills Memorial Hospital’s Designation as a Regional Hospital + Kitimat City High « Rosswood Community Hall » Heritage Park + Terrace Kinsmen ~ Community Hall « Natural Gas Distribution + MK Bay Marina + Onion Lake Cross Country Ski Trail « Shames Mountain Road « Para-Transit Buses * Terrace Regional Correspondence Centre + Camaby By-Pass + Haisla Village Bridge + Gitanyow Community Hail + Peaks Gymnastics Club « iskut Road + Mills Memorial Nuclear Medicine Facility « School Upgrades to Uplands and Kiti K’Shan « Nisga'a Highway | “ Air Park Upgrade It's a matter of record. | Paid lor by The Gammutten To Elect Dave Parker Terrace Review —— Wednesday, October 2, 1991 3 Fishing guides say business sinking fast Steve Nickolls: Opportunity more important than cost. by Tod Strachan Northwest Sportsman manager Steve Nickolls urged members of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce last week to lobby both Victoria and Ottawa for more equitable commercial and sports fishing regulations. Speaking on behalf of the Sport- fishermen’s Coalition, Nickolls ge focused on the incidental commer- cial steelhead catch and the $10-a- day non-resident angling fee in Class 2 rivers. And of the two, he says, low steelhead returms due to the incidental catch is the greatest cause of concem for both the Angling Guides Association and the tourism industry. Tourists come to this area to fish, don’t like what they sce, and say they won’t be coming back. Non-resident (out-of-province) anglers, says Nickolls, often come to his store and other local angling licence outlets asking for informa- tion on the best fishing holes. He says he can direct them to spots on the Skeena River system, but ulti- mately must explain that these are Class 2 waters (with the exception of Ferry Island) and carry the $10- a-day fee. The Kitimat River, on . the other hand, is a Class 1 river and doesn’t cost a thing. And for many anglers, particularly those from Alberta, this makes a big difference. Nickolls explains that European tourists generally travel wilh a larger budget and fishing opportun- ity is far more important than the cost. Tourists who have travelled a shorter distance, though, usually have less to spend, and $10 a day becomes the deciding factor. These tourists head for Kitimat... But they’re not happy, and most say they won't be coming back. And then there’s the European fishermen. ‘They’rc not happy cither and they’re also not coming back. They don’t mind spending $40 io $50 a day on lishing... but at that price, they want to catch some fish — particularly steclhead —- and they can't. Even without restrictions, there are virtually none to be found. As an example, Nickolls offers the following: Two weeks ago, 16 Swiss fishermen spent around $20,000 in this community in just seven days and they didn’t catch a single fish. Are they coming back? They would be foolish if they did, says Nickolls, Situations like this are not un- common, he says. And because of il, fishing lodges in the Northwest are in serious trouble. The ‘situ- ation is getting worse each year, and this year many non-resident fishermen with plans to visit here cancelled their bookings. That trend must be reversed if the in- dustry is to survive. But what can be done? According to Nickolls, the Class 2 designation is designed to reduce pressure on specific rivers: local anglers can fish freely, but non- residents, the designation plan assumed, would be deterred and seek out Class 1 rivers. But it’s not working, he says. As we have already noted, Europeans in par- licular are not deterred. - They ask why some rivers are designated Class 2 and decide that’s where they want to go when told it’s because the fishing is better. Better regulation of the commer- cial industry, both in Canada and the U.S., may be the only real answer. But there are things the provincial government can do as well. At the present time, fishing lodges advertise in Europe in the spring and a short time later the tourists begin to arrive, Then the regulations change, the steelhead fishery is closed, and the high expectations of the high-paying clients are dashed. Nickolls says the province has it backwards: place a permanent closure on steelhead and open the fishery when returns warrant it. A steelhead opening, then, would become a bonus. And ownets of fishing lodges could fairly repre- sent what they have to offer and therefore make sound annual busi- ness plans with some guarantee of SUCCESS. In lobbying for change, though, sports fishermen have a small collective voice when compared to that of the commercial industry. One is concerned with recreation, the other with jobs. For this rea- son, Nickolls asked ~ Chamber members to write to both Victoria and Ottawa asking for change. One hundred letters in Ottawa repre- sents a major problem for politi- cians . and bureaucrats, says Nickolls, because to them it repre- sents 1,000 taxpayers who have similar concerns but didn’t bother to write.