the North Pacific, Red squid is. the target; their skippers say Only.a short time ago, whe Tange. of .the fleet has: _ threat of economic retaliation should such violations continue. t Angler . . But. continue, they do, as the pilots of the U.S, Coast Guard, did many of the Oriental Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Novembér 27, 1951 who fly over-the fishery have: ~ Page C1 South East Alaska. Coalition. - Opposed to the Piracy of - -. Salmon, estimates that approx-. . imately. 22 million immature: salmon. including. Sockeye, ” dosymented again and again. cere coho and possibly t time is oes nm _. The fishing zone in question steelhead are scooped anniially the boats: were. armour forget by Rob. Brown. -: ds bigger: than the contiguous © by the Aslan squid feet ote ilgs, and were selective becdus UDTANAB- .eroecemmenie re es f , United States. Given man- ‘much again falling into the | Of that, we might have believed... rae Ta ; Power, money and time con- deeps,. 9 Shem: But now, with each boat’ catch. Ir _ ez Straints, the U.S. simply does epee eg Paying out 30 to:35‘miles of gill. belonging to made boundaries, and even if it .not have the ability toadequate. This is strip-mining the ik sh ‘set, it's obvious: the -the United St 1 the Ii -gtown. to terrible Proportions... €5, The nets are all but invisible: even the sensitivity of whale and © Porpoise sonar will not detect them. The four-inch mesh is in-.*. discriminate. The sea mammals. - tangle and drown screaming. So do fur seals and sea birds. "Between 700 and 1,500 boats,-: ed ‘depending on. opportunity..or appetite, makes for: death “ih grand dimension; 21,000 miles of gill net hanging thirty feet i ta the cold waters of the Pacifi scrutabl . SY AyNe Lewis tional. Marine. Fisheri ly hold the line, pseudo-squid Boats have shawn . | Nor do the Soviets, although they would have ignored it anyway, _ In April of '89, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard vessel, Jarvis set oui in dogged pursuit of a Taiwanese fishing vesse] fishing some 450 miles cutside the legal fishing zone, . “During the 700-mije chase, the Taiwanese vessel cut free its net'and dumped its cargo over- board. The result of .the epic chase was a stern warning from the U.S, State Department -to the Taiwanese along with a fishing . within their 200-mile limit - were. dealt with con. siderably’. more severity than those apprehended by the U.S, And Canada? Well, Canada under the Conservatives hasn’t been able to protect its inshore fisheries. Schools of fish, like schools of children, have a drop-out Tate. For every fish that is gillnetted and brought on board by the squidders, one falls out of the net. SEACOPS, the : the. three... Taiwanese boats | ocean. It is amassive removal of biomass: that threatens the entire pelagic ecosystem. ‘Lately we have'heen hearing abyssmal runs ‘blamed on poor ocean sur- vival. Last year there were almost .no. ‘coho in. Georgia Strait. I say we make the reasonable assumption that those Asian Pirates in the North Pacific have a lot to do with the survival rates of our saimon. Maybe it’s time we let our federal politicians know that in- ternational embargo and even gunboat diplomacy deserve serious consideration, -Kermodes set for new hoop season — TERRACE — The Caledonia Kermodes of 1991-92 will be a younger and less star-studded, but possibly more balanced ve;- sion of last year’s zoné cham- pion basketball team, “It’s a rebuilding year,” says coach Cam MacKay, "but these kids still have the potential to do better than ‘last ‘year’s team.” Tas Four Kermodes retura to the team for their senior, year — under pressure. It’s not a big team — Geoff McKay at six-foot-four is the biggest on the team, while most of the rest of the starters come in at under six feet, But the team is healthy — a far cry from the injury-plagued team MacKay coached last season. *'Y don’t think I could ever get a team that was as in- jured as last year’s team,’? he any cther sport.’’- a Several Caledonia players are on the school’s senior boys volleyball team right now, and that could put some of them behind schedule in their basket- ball skill development, _ But MacKay said that’s not necessarily bad, Suggesting teams in recent years have peak- ed too soon. “I think it'll be OK if we peak a month later than said, usual,” he said. _ ~ Geoff..McKay,Mark .Neeve, 200 . Defensively, the Ketmodes Mike Newhouse ‘arid Shawn ° phe ge have the potential to be ve Stanvick, 9 5 ~~ "tS a rebuilding year. Ot 4 good, he added, but offence will require more work and pa- tience, _ Some players like . Fraser McKay could be surprise per- formers for the team, he added. “‘He’s smart. He knows the court and he’s smart the way he goes after rebounds,”* Phillip Bradshaw, a Grade 12 student who didn’t play last year, also joins the team this year and is expected to adda new element to the team with his aggressive brand of defence, “He gets in their way and basically makes them pay for every point,’” MacKay says, The number of ‘outstanding players — like last year's Paul Manhas, Mike Par/cer and.Kan- nin Osei-Tutu — nay be fewer, but MacKay suggests the team may actually hav: more depth because they won't be as reliant on their top-eight. - a “It wouldn’t br: a surprise to see everybody play each game," But these kids stil! have the potential to do better than last year’s team.” - The zone final against Rupert saw Cal fight a knock-down drag-out battle before narrowly edging the Rainmakers to goon to the provincials, where they were quickly eliminated. This year’s zones won’t be any easier, MacKay predicts, ‘Rupert’s always tough, (PRSS coach) Mel Bishop always puts together a gZood team. And his kids don’t play he said, New players ie Kurt Muller and Shawn Palagian have arriv- ed from Thornhill. Ir. Secon- dary. The Thornhill players are. good athletes, good natural shooters, and respond well Ribbon cutting | at new gym TERRACE — Three years of concentrated effort pays off this Saturday. when the. Terrace _ Gymnastics Club. officially Opens its new Thornhill training Mecllty, “Attached to the Thornhill Community. Centre, the facility ~ Was built with the help of pro- - ¥incial lottery grants and local ~: Contributions and volunteer FAY HOPP bops to the beat as she leads her class in Step aerobics. Parks and Recreation will be offering several such classes in the new year, Pg ‘Tunning at a 7.5 mile-per-hour pace but at the -impact level of walking, adds the Parks and Rec . , : department's Shawn Krienke, com “Running exerts the pressure of five tines the ody’s-weight on the joints, he says. Step train-. . ing exerts only 1.5 times’ the body’s weight — y" comparable to the 1.3 figure of walking, but: siving a far more intense workout. a |