eng arn en ee NN SEE OT sot bes __- Judy Hannon Definitely! Aside from sport fishing as such it is an impor- |...’ tant food supplement to all _ the people in the area that will. taken away. Tourism is. also going to be severly af- fected and therefore our local shops will be ‘affected after ‘Summer tourist stock has already been ordered. Again, aioss all around. | - Ell Welsh | suppose, for some species such as steelhead. | think the Sports fishermen should be able to catch pink. salmon also, Dick Johnston — Sure. i. The Terrace Review asked: Should limits be _ Imposed on commercial —. fisningtohelp conserve s ports: fish? yoo J _ : i, Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 26, 1987 5 _ @ Kindness misguided To the editor, ; As I waded through Millie B- Kelso’s letter, “Tourists praise friendly anglers’’, (Wed. Aug. 19, Terrace Review) I became in- creasingly concerned with the poor knowledge of fishing regulations and ethics displayed by all involved. The tourists from California could perhaps a. be forgiven for not knowing the ' difference between fresh and salt . ‘+ water and. thus not having the proper licenses. However, | a question why they didn’t: read the sport fishing regulations ‘Synopsis that they received when they bought their licenses. Less forgiving am I of the good _ ‘Samaritan fisherman who, while ~ ~playing a fish, kindly handed his rod to the tourist and: allowed her to land a 19 Ib. chinook. A |. nice thing to do on a nice day for a novice fisherman, but why did the fish have to be killed? Because the tourist was already fishing and because she was handed a second rod, this put Doug. . ~ Sales Ltd. 635-2033 her in the illegal position of. . fishing with two lines. Didn't the . local angler know this and didn’t he know that the chinook sal- mon card is to be filled out im- mediately after landing a fish, and not after soliciting another card from his fellow anglers?. Why didn’t he fill. out his own | card? Had he already caught or did he hope to exceed his limit of ten. chinook? Didn’t he know that the reason the chinook lim- - its are so restrictive is the drastically reduced returns of these fish? I doubt that the ‘Lakelse River has two hundred spawners. And by the way, ed- itor, the Kelso’s secret fishing ‘spot could not possibly be (I hope!) the Whitebottom CN Rail bridge because the Lakelse has been closed to chinook fishing above the logging bridge at its mouth for many years. Doug Webb ae So Terrace I stand corrected, Thanks, _M. Kelly ; CAMPER & R.V. REPAIRS « ICBC CLAIMS § - 4 Your shop for | | | SALES irisBrown ss ore’. Yes, commercial fishing ; PARTS should be limited. | like to see people fish for sport, if they - Theresa Doucette ; RY The commercial’ fishermen Ds |. have to make a living, but some mutual understanding. Should be reached so that _ letter 7 Catch and tO A nS Sar , OUTBOAR Now on sale: © release — not the — answer — To the editor, If it’s to become ‘an annual event, the proposal to turn the Skeena summer run steelhead fishery into a catch-release fish- ery to conserve stocks is well _ meaning but misdirected and ca- ters to a small interest group of purist anglers who are repulsed by the idea of bonking a fish, and who don’t eat the meat. There are many valid objec- tions to this proposal. _ Tourists who find weak coho’ ‘runs, as they invariably will dur- ing normal cyclical downturns, will not find an alternative steel- head catch-release fishery ‘re- warding enough for them to stay in the area and spend tourism .4f - dollars here, Those who catch a trophy fish On a once-in-a-lifetime basis \ | . Will bitterly. resent releasing a. beautiful wall mount, and they _ may. ‘well quit fishing forever because the sport has been reg- ulated to death for them, Sport fishermen who know te that the large incidental catch of steelhead in the ocean net fishery is the chief problem, started by the narrow-perspective huge Ba- | bine enhancement project, will be resentful of bearing the brunt of conservation measures to fur- ther subsidize the commercial and native fishery. We are still no closer to a ter- Minal trap fishery — which by all accounts would solve the pro- blem in large measure — be- cause of lack of political will. ~ continued on page 14 both Industries flourish. eat the fish and not waste It. | ~ Study to start soon for Terrace TERRACE — The Kitimat- Stikine Regional District has received four proposals from engineering firms to investigate the feasibility of providing city water, or some other alternate source of water, to the rural area north of Terrace, Assistant Administrator Bob. Marcellin stated the Tertace firms of Peterson Engineering Lid. and R. John Morgan Engineering Ltd., and KIM Engineering Ltd. of. Prince George and Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd. of Vancouver have all submitted proposals to 5 Tae : North water do an engineering study outlin- ing the cost and time frame in- volved in the proposed project. 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