Vancouver-Kispios Indian Band and the Federal Fisheries Service have been wor king together since the ginning of August on a oject that is — en- usiastically endorsed by both groups. Un to twleve members of the Band have been em- ployed on the Kispious River under a $55,000 contracat funded jointly by the Salmoni Enchacement Program and the Canada Wor Program. hey foe n carrying out a varie’ of tasks related to salmonid enhancement. The Kispios Band took the Initiative to propose a stream clearance project last fall. ‘We asked for an lip winter work contracat to clean up some of the nearby creeks and keep our com- mercial fishermen em- ployed in the off season", BLACKWATER, Chief Councillor for the Band, relates. ‘We thouth there might be some summer employment for students later on, as well.” -Canada Manpower con- sulted the Fisheries Service, who were reluctant to a prove a plan that seemed propose’ indicriminate slashing of streamside vyegationa dn removal of beaver dams and log jams. At the same time fisheries managers knew there was potential for enhancement of salmon and trout stocks on the ;Kispos systemm and suggested a modified plan, much more extensive and longer term than the original scheme The Terrace office of Manpower’s Job Creation Branch brought representatives of the Service and the Inidan Band together, and the result has been the combined job- training, salmonid enhancement project currently under way. — Three crews of e to four men are employed on the project plus one in- diviual. The latter band members has worked as a river: guardian, assisting Fisheries Officer Maurice (Bud) Bogart, and isc carrying out a survey of sports fisherment on the ver. The crews are in- volved pink salmon enumeration, stream in- provement activities, and physical and biological ventories, The enumerastion team counted and tagged pink salmon spawners as they made theiy way up the Kispiox. Subsequently tage were recovered from the carcasses of spawned-out © salmon. The tag-and- recovery operation give Fisheries an accuarte in- dication of the numbers of inks returning to the river; fhe ratio of males to females’percentage of successful spawmers and their distribution throughtou the river sustem, and other valuable informationthat will assist in management of the Kispiox pink salmon stocks. e stream improvement crew has been engaged in clearing the river and tributaries of log jams and other obstruction that collect debris and have the otential to completely lock fish passage even- tually. Sun obstructions can alos lead to erosion of streambanks and displacement of bottom Fravel. For the most part e cleanup was ac- complished with power sawa, axesm and hard manual Jabour, but at one int explosives were used fO remove a rock ob- struction ina canyon area of the main stream. While not impassable to fish, the rock barrier had injured many spawners and delayed others. Its removal was recorded by CFTK and is schedualed to be seen on local television September 3. The clearance crew also opened channels: to premti sh to pass around numerous beaver dams. According to Bill ‘Black- water, “When you fly over the river you can see why it’s not producing any more. It’s been long-neglected and there are . beaver everywhere--on some creeks there are a series of dams, one after another, the Jength of the strea,.'' However the beaver dams are not removed com- letely, because, as Fishery ervice biologist Dave : Kispiox band and federal fisheries | | Co-operation revives salmon streams Harding explains, usually some spawners can get past the dams, and they are not all bad from a fish managementpoint of view; often their role as an ob- stacie is more than offset by their copacity to retain a supply of water that keeps fish-rearing streams from going dry. Harding, responsibel for planning and monitoring the ee iect componenets t gt e project, agrees fe work has been done on the river in the past. Tight budgets and lack of man- power have prevented it. Te entory crews, he says, will rovide the Fisheries ce with fundamental information on the Kispiox watershed that the Service “has not had the time or the resources to gather.” The crew doing a physical inventory of the upper Kispiox watershed were flown in by helicopter beyond road’s end and have lived out of tents. Their job is to catalogue stream characteristics, note rearing ans spawing areas, the type of streamside vegation, flow ans tem- perature of the water, nature of the stream bot- tom, species of fish present, and other information pertinent to an un- derstanding of the capacity of the Kispiox system to support saimonids. The biological inventory crew is currently doing similar work on the lower river, concentrating their efforts on locating fry and juvenile salmon and steelhead rearing the river and feeder streams, checking their numbers, size and movements. All the new knowledge wiil contribute to _ better management of the salmonids that use the Kispiox system, and could be the foundation of basic data needed cfr major enhancement measurese in times to come. \ The crew members themselyes are gaing new knowledge and skills. Theyu have learned how to handle live fish in the tagging operation;hot to sample fish populations b live trapping and beac seining, and other biological sampling methods, how to inventory a stream for its fish-producing capability; how to improve the natural capacity of a stream-and many other things related to the life support systems ofsalmon and trout. They brought to the job their own long familiarity with the They brought to the job their own long familiairty with the outdoors, keen powers of oberservation, and high enthusiasm for the work. Stu’ Barnestson, Fisheriest ethnician who has spent a great deal of time in the eld with the crews, has high praise for their work and their abili skills quickly. As one of the people provind instructio and technical advice in the Fisheries Serivee advisory role on the project. neston says the calibre ofthe men hired by the Band has made his job easy. Biologist § Dave Tiaeding is equally” complimentary, and in common with other officials with the 3 connected Salmonid Enhancement 9 Program, he is hopeful that some of the project workers will ‘want to carry on in fisheries work. 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