paint with a brush in his mouth

‘Artistic rendering

JERRY DUHAN from the Terraceview Lodge has learned to

because he has a rare form of .

epilepsy which prevents him from using his hands. He ‘paints
- Scenes from around Terrace, and donated one of them that

has a Remembrance Day theme to the lodge. Taught by artist
Donna Orr, a recreation worker at the lodge, Duhan has:a
show at the Terrace Art Gallery Aug, 4, . : a

Steelhead numbers rise

TERRACE — Provincial fish
biologists are more optimistic
there’ll be a strong run of
steelhead for recreational
anglers in the Skeena River this.
year, .

The estimated total run as of
last week stood at 2,065 which,
says senior fisheries biologist
Colin Spence, is more than dou-
ble the return of 891 at this date
last year.. The number is based
on a test fishery at Tyee, about
‘halfway on the Skeena River
between Terrace and Prince.
Rupert, and the reported catch
of commercial fermen, at the
river's. Mouth, a

enn looks like it’s going to be
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optimistic that there are going

to be some fish this year, ‘and
that this trend is going to con

tinue as long as the stocks aren’t -

hit too badly by. the commercial
fishery.”

Recreational fishermen and
fish biologists continually WoITy
that commercial nets ‘set for
other salmon species also cap-
ture large numbers of steelhead;

Spence attributed part of the
stronger return to the reduced
commercial fishing catch and
the small number of days the
fishery has been ‘allowed to™:
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temperatures — known as the

‘resulting poor . commercial

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better early season . fishing

El Nino effect — are believed to
have delayed. the commercial
sockeye run, or redirected the
salmon run further north.

“There are unusually warm
water. temperatures from Prince
Rupert all the way out to the’
Charlottes — temperatures up
to 60 and 70 degrees
Fahrenheit, ” Spence explained.

“The feeling is that it’s chang-
ing the sockeye migration pat-
tern.”

With sockeye runs diverted
north by the effect, and a

sockeye fishery at the mouth of ..
the Skeena, he said steelheaders

upriver, .~

Colin Spence.

‘Band inks
leal_

fish.

_ TERRACE — After a more
than 20-year absence, the Kit-
sumkalum band has resumed
fishing on the Kalum River.

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The band began gill netting
chinook salmon in the'river this

week after issuing a plan for a
native food fishery there to the
Department of Fisheries and
Oceans (DFO). The band will
- also continue its food fishery on
the Skeena River, :
° The native food fishery on

. the Kalum River was abandon-.

ed more than 20 years ago.due
to declining stocks,

But DFO figures now show
surplus stocks of chinook in the
river. Fisheries spokesman
Laurie Gordon said DFO’s
target escapement number for
the river is 15,000 fish, and
that’s been exceeded by 4,000 to
6,000 over the past four years,
“We don’t think it’s
unreasonable for them to fish
there,’’ he said. :

Kitsumkalum band
spokesman Alec Bolton said the
band worked out the plan in
consultation with DFO of-
ficials.

“We'll be going over escape-

ment numbers and determine
how many can be taken,’
Bolton said, ‘then we'll issue
our own permits.’

Bolton emphasized the band

* would be careful to restrict its

catch to the surplus fish over
and above the levels required
for spawning,

‘Conservation is number one
with the native fishery," Bolton
said. **We will be monitoring it
pretty close in conjunction with
fisheries and we'll be having
weekly meetings with
fisheries,”

Bolton said fishing on the
Tiver this year will be ex-
perimental, to “figure out what
works best where.”

The acceptance of the plan by
fisheries officers has been

i] credited to the recent precedent-

setting Supreme Court decision

in the case of B.C, native : fisher- .
man Ron Sparrow, which Is said «

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