Po The Policy is an- intelligent attempt . { wee oe :“I low-gross title on a final day Guide. Management by.well-informed, hard-working fisheries - Managers to solve a ‘pressing and complex manage- ment-problem. Like any revolu- © tionary idea, it has been widely “misunderstood. “Faced with a diminishing, - inite tesourcé and a bourgeon- " ing ‘angling population, while - Tecognizing that fishing success arid’ quality” are in inverse pro- portion to fishing pressure, the authors of. the policy have. . Sought to preserve a reasonable: measure of quality angling’ op- ‘ portunities for resident and non-resident anglers alike while .. simultaneously setting limits on the grawth of guiding. After some growing pains, the: policy’ will not only bring order. to a fishery which -has -become increasingly chaotic, - but also, through the establish- ment of a river classification 6 system, give value to a resource that we've been ‘virtually. giving away, ° ‘Last year, for example, Ma - and Pa Alberta could sail their land yacht into Terrace, plunk $14 on the counter of one of our local sporting goods stores, pro- ceed to Mud:Lake, tin boat in tow, and troll for chinook salmon, Tf, at the end of a week's stay, their luck had’been good, they might well have had two large salmon as well-as an assortment of trout and jack springs in their fridge. For their $14 investment they could have captured aver a hundred dollars worth of fish flesh and had an exhilarating - outdoor experience besides. Under the new management regime, however, Ma and Pa will each have to’ pay $10 a day to enjoy their traditional fishing on what is now ‘“‘class two” water. For a six-day period, that The Skeena Angier by Rob Brown nae comes to a whopping $134 in- cluding the $14 licence. Faced with this huge increase, the.cou- ple may well hop back in. ‘their camper and threaten to head for Alaska, willing, apparently, to cough up the extra hundreds of dollars for gasoline. - Goodbye, 1 say. And good riddance to anyone who thinks they are entitled to angle for a fish on par with the much prized Atlantic salmon for less money than it costs to stay ina skid row hotel, | If our hypothetical couple seeks a comparable fishing ex- perience -in Quebec, they will find it within a “‘controlled ex- _ ploitation zone.”’ To fish within _ this zone they will have to apply on a first come, first served basis. If they are lucky: enough ; to be assigned a beat on a river, ‘they will discover, ito their chagrin, they will have to pay up to $395 per day to fish. In New Brunswick the best . pools o on ‘the finest salmon rivers are now being leased for a term: of 10 years to people willing to : “(pay rents of up to $400,000. Nope = no room for Ma and Pa there. . But in good old ‘Supernatural ; British Columbia you.can angle - steelhead and giant salmon. for what it would cost for-a night at the local bingo hall, and all you _ get to , bring home froni .the-fat-. ter “recreation ° is the ‘smell of stale smoke on your clothes. ‘In this: wonderful -mercantile- minded society of ours nothing is deemed to be of any value un-__ til it is measured in terms of - dollars, The Guide Manage- © - envision the shape of the: future ment’ Policy has identified potential ‘‘million-dollar’’ fisheries and defined them as “class one.”’ The conceptual seeds of class one-ness have been sown intefnationally and, if all goes well, other interest with designs upon the water- sheds thus. ideritifi ed wil think twice. before treating them with ‘the callousness shown 'so many - similar streams in the past. ‘Those who decry the new legislation governing guides and guiding and the classification of rivers. should realize ‘the’ pro- liferation of guides and packers “on those rivers; ‘if left: uncheck- ed, would‘ have’ creatéd an even more economically insecure en- vironment for guides and would have eliminated any chance for . solitude. for all but ‘the most well-heeled angler... Lét the critics of this policy study it carefully, look: outside their. own immediate interests, from current trends, and if they are still dissatisfied, let them come up with a better plan. I’m sure the directors of the Fish and Wildlife Branch of the en- vironment ministry would like to hear it. © JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 _ SPORTS NEWS _ TERRACE STANDARD -~SPORTSCOPE- Northmen vs Camels SMITHERS -- In the pour- ing rain in Smithers, the Ter- trace Northmen rugby team took on and once again van- -| quished the Smithers Camels — this time by an 11-0 score. Players described play in the wet game as being like “trying to catch a greased pig.”* The Northmen grabb- ed.an early three-point lead on a drop-kick field goal by Willie McCleary. They next scored when Er- nie Dusdal crossed the try line to make it 7-0. Winger Leon Schulte added. another | try late in the gami¢ to'secure the+11-0 victory.: ‘ J. All the scoring plays went ‘unconverted a small wonder given the slipperiness of ball‘and field. The shutout was the Nor- thmen’s second in as many games, and they went ‘into the Seafest weekend in Rupert looking to keep the string alive. Classic golfing SMITHERS Terrace players made their presence felt at the May 19-21 Smithers Spring Classic golf ‘| tournament. Championship flight ac- [tion saw Terrace’s. Dan | Rosengren ride a three-day 1-232 total to third place ‘behind low gross winner Steve Kerbrat’s 223 and the ‘] 229 shot by Houston’s Chad 4 Belbin. On the women's side, Lin- da Juba of Terrace was low ‘| gross runner-up. Larry Philips took low net in men's .“‘A” flight (12-20 handicap) with a 207. || Prince Rupert’s Jason | Gordon was the tournament winner, earning the overall | subpar 71 that gave him a j 219 total, More than 170 ‘| golfers, competed in the | Classic. Soccer title The men’s title went to ‘| Prince Rupert, but the Ter- _| race Steelers women's soccer Jteam nabbed the women's *} zone soccer championship ‘Hast month and the right to ‘Feo to the B.C, Summer 4 Games. Alter an easy win over Houston and playing to a 2-2 draw with Prince Rupert, the. | Terrace team posted a 3-2. ‘| win over Rupert — scoring the winner in the final minute — to take the title. Prince: Rupert's . Ocean- ‘| view men’s soccer club. came’ up with, the. needed win over. Kitwanga to earn, the trip to the Games. nt tes ri THE UNDERDOGS slugger Karyn Kirk prepares to put the ball into orbit during her at-bat against the Skeena Athletics in one of the first games of Big Bob's Ball Banger slo-pitch tournament at the Thornhill diamonds. Complete tournament results next week. moon ‘grant file TERRACE — With the an- nouncement last weekend of a $40,000 lottery grant for a gym complex, the Terrace Peaks Gymnastics Club is ready to start building. The grant covers up to aie. ‘third of the $120,000 project to - be built as an addition to the Thornhill Community Centre. | The club hopes to raise the. ' rest through membership fees and donations. But the club will get: “the ‘money in stages, Peaks spokesman Erika Neves said. last .week, and the: resulting: cash-flow‘ ‘problem could: force ’ them to borrow money.” ° _.A third of the lottery grant is vst, ‘be awarded when ponstrug i tion starts, another third when it’s halfway done, and the final third after it’s completed. “If we have to we will borrow — just to get the first stage up,” she said. The project is:a scaled- down “Version of the club’s original plans. The club will consider ex- pansion of the centre after ihe initial gym is up, "The Peaks expect to: get ap- proval from the Kitimat-Stikine * regional district building soon: = _ They hope to put the projedt Out.to tender as soon as they eet approval, to begin «$0 far the club has raised iat “least: $44,000 in corporate and & fonations, Neves sald noo 7 wath Ves Track meet - “TERRACE — It was a day of - fun. aid exercise for city elemen- . tary. school students who par- i tielpated in a city-wide track ‘and field meet two weekends : Ago. Clint Sheppard (age 9), Charles Parks of Thornhill and Ryan ‘Orr of Céntennial Chris. -tian/Alliance Church {age 10), : Chad Toovey ‘(age 11, Centen- _ nial/Alliance), Tommy Munson and Steve Belanger of Thornhill (age: 12), and Jassie Osei-Tutu and, ‘Treyor- Blanco (age 13 of Uplands). - Girls ‘named outstanding athletes are: Jesse Bartlett noe -age 9}, Roxanne Chow (Uplands, age 10), Jenny *Henderson (Uplands, age 11), — ~ Joelle Walker of Veritas and’ . Liberty. Huli of Thornhill (age “13, and Indira Thandl (age ir ; Hall)... "More than 240 kids tuned: ; out from at least seven schools. ’. Outstanding athletes on the _ boys side included Cassie Hall's “A> St se Aron tin AN couthd en ee a Hendry on nat'l team TERRACE — Michelle Hendry is back in a Team Canada uniform playing basketball in Eastern Europe. The 20-year-old’ Terrace basketball player made the na- tional women’s basketball team’s travelling roster last week, and left immediately to play in Italy. The Canadian t¢am finished _ its four:game' ‘schedule’ there ‘ Monday and are now in’ Bulgaria for a eight-country tournament. Hendry made the initial cut last month to join the national - team, and then made a further cut to be classified with the na- tional ‘A’ team. She was con- firmed to play with the traveil- . ing team last-week following a five-game series pitting Team Canada against the U.S.S.R. Alison McNeil, her coach at . Simon Fraser University, said her outstanding play against the - Russians assured her of a berth on. the team, Although she did not dress |., for the first two games of the * ‘five-game | series, Hendry prov- “ed her mettle i in the final three Rames after which coaches con- firmed she would play on the travelling team. “It’s pretty hard to break the line-up there,’? McNeil said of the national team tryouts, She noted that, like last year when she also played with Team Canada, Hendry is the youngest member of the team. ‘‘Many of _the players are 27 or 28, Last * year ‘it““was “a ‘real adjusting “period for Michelle. She was only 19%tfen arid some of the players on the team’ were a bit cool towards her.” . But she’s. more experienced this year and having-fewer pro- blems adjusting, McNeil added. After the Bulgaria - tourna- ment, .McNeil: said,-. theteam returns to Vancouver to train for a few weeks before heading for Malaysia for the world championships.in, July. : Hendry led the SFU Clan women’s basketball team to its best season ever and into the na- tional chanipionships ‘this spr- ing. She earned numerous awards — and was named to an All-American team : we: in the process, _ TINY: POWERHOUSE Felecia Arbuah clears the bar at 1.18 metres on her way to first-place in the 10-year-old girls’ high jump atithe June 2 elementary: school track and field meet. . a ene ete Sle "