a Tom Bruusgaard, manager of NOREDCO, recently advised members of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce to get In on the ground floor ofthe rapidly expanding B.C. aquaculture Industry. R g ht S continued from page 2 other areas of Canada because the wages in B.C. are relatively low and the cost of living is relatively high. Other specialties such as speech therapy and occupa- tional therapy are equal- ly scarce, and support _ programs such as respite care and group homes are non-existent 1m most communities outside the Lower Mainland; in heavily populated cen- tres where facilities do exist, the available pro- grams are inadequate for the demand. In assessing the pro- vincial government’s performance, one wom- an said simply, ‘‘Nobody in government is wearing the right shoes,’’ a reference to the lack of understanding on the part of those in power. Despite this criticism, local school boards were given credit not only for maintaining their own special needs programs during restraint, but also for adopting programs that were previously the responsibility of other agencies whose funding had either disappeared or been slashed so far as to make them ineffec- tive. A final analysis of the various problems iden- tified by the parents was reduced almost entirely to a single common denominator: funding. The B.C. Parents’ Net- work will begin with a bi- monthly newsletter for the exchange of ideas and information, and an effort by the founding parents to enlist other members throughout B.C. Terrace could bene “rave De “4B Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 19, 1986 3 fa vf fit. from fish farming boom TERRACE — By the mid- dle of the next decade aquaculture in B.C. has the potential to create 10,000 new jobs and reach gross annual sales of $500 million. Terrace, despite its inland location, could get a piece of the action in a number of ways. by Michael Kelly Tom Bruusgaard, man- ager of the Northern Economic Development Corporation (NORED- CO), said in a recent talk to Terrace Chamber of Commerce members that his job is to help diversify the northwestern economy and create jobs, and he called aquaculture “‘prior- ity number one’’ for his organization. Bruusgaard said aquaculture is the fastest growing industry in Canada, with 600 applica- tions for fish farms on the B.C. coast. The 70 ex- isting farms, he stated, are currently producing about 200 tons of fresh fish a year; in two years, that figure will skyrocket to 20,000 tons, about one- fourth as much as the an- nual catch by the commer- cial marine fishery. Most of the industry will focus on production of salmon, requiring that farms be located on the coast. Bruusgaard pointed out, however, that inland communities will have op- portunities in support in- dustries such as fish food production, manufactur- ing of specialized equip- ment, operation of hatch- eries, and the education of trained personnel. Bruusgaard said Ter- race has all the qualifica- - tions for a hatchery loca- tion. ‘‘For every three farms, one hatchery is re- quired,’’ he said. ‘The hatchery must be within six hours travel time of the grow-out area. It must have a plentiful supply of high-quality water.” Each farm, he said, will need between six and 10 specially trained people. This year Northwest Com- munity College launched a pilot course in aquaculture at their Prince Rupert campus. Bruusgaard call- ed the course ‘‘excellent’”’ and predicted an esca- lating demand for training in coming years. 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Bruusgaard gave little credence to recent com- plaints filed by commer- cial fishermen regarding the possibility for transmission of disease from cultured fish to wild stocks. ‘‘There is no fac- tual basis for these com- plaints,’ he said, ‘“‘but they have frightened in- vestors to some extent, it’s totally unacceptable be- havior." Bruusgaard said commercial fishermen view the advent of ‘aquaculture as a threat to their livelihood, but in fact the cultured fish create an entirely new market because they taste different from wild fish. Despite the daunting $1.5 million of capital re- quired for start-up, B.C. aquaculture is attracting international investment. Bruusgaard said part of — the attraction is a clear return of between 25 and 35 percent of gross. 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