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Ad Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 12, 1991

— COMING EVENTS —

Our Coming Events column is a public service offered by the Ter-
race Review. Deadiine is Friday at 5 p.m. Coming Events must be
mailed in or dropped off at our office, 4535 Greig Avenue, typed or in

7 legible writing.

. 7 Information concerning the Twin River Estates project is available
“from the Skeena Senior Citizens’ Housing Society office, corner of

Apsley Street and Lakelse Avenue, each Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Branch 73, B.C, Old Age Pensioners Organization, hold a pancake
breakfast at the Happy Gang Centre the first Saturday of every month
from 8 to 11 a.m. Everyone welcome!

Heritage Park Museum, sponsored by the Terrace Regional Museum
Soclety, is open for tours daily from Tuesday to Saturday between
40:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Office hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For group tours,
school tours or weddings, please make an appointment by phoning
635-4546 or 635-2508.

Register now for the French Preschool! fall ‘91 program. Children must
- be a minimum of 32 months and toilet tralned. Knowledge of French is ~

not required. For further information, call Pam at 635-4260. (6/26).
‘Volunteers are needed for child health clinics (immunization clinics)

1 every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and from. 1:30 to 4 p.m., and
| -the first and third Thursdays of every month from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Duties
~ Include: weighing and measuring children. No lifting necessary. For

more Information, call Debra at 638-3310. (6/26).

- BCTV Is.now offering free tours of the studios in Burnaby to familles

and smail groups. Tours run Monday to Friday until the end of August
at 12 noon, 2 p.m., 3/30 p.m. and 6 p.m. For more information and reser:

_ vations, phone 421-9437,

_ June 7 to 27 — Babytimes for 18- to 23-month-old children at the Ter-
_ race Pubtic Library, Thursdays at 10 a.m. Free. Register now by phone

638-8177.

Thursday, June 13 — at 1 p.m. at the Terrace Women’s Resource Cen-
- tre — Film Stil Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Images of Women: This
is a fast paced, amusing commentary on advertising reveals not only
‘how the ad industry sells It products and promotes negative images of
women, also the power it has to shape attitudes and behavior.

Thursday, June 13 — There willbe a General Meeting of the TLT Socie-
ty at 7:30 p.m. at the McColl Playhouse. Please attend up wrap up this
‘season and set plans for next fall. See you there and wish us well at
Mainstage.

Friday, June 14 — Support group meeting for persons suffering from
M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), also known as C.F.I.D.S. (Chronic

_ Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome). We will be meeting in

the downstalrs meeting room of the Terrace Public Library at 7:30 p.m.
For more information please call Kathleen Talstra at 635-2718.

Friday, June 14 — B.C. Trade Development Corp. is offering a 1% -hour
seminar, “Finding the Right Representative and Distributlon Chan-
nels”, from noon to 1:30.p.m. at the Training and Enterprise Centre,
Terrace. To register, call Donna at 638-3570.

Saturday, June 15 — A Stroke Tag Day In the downtown area trom 10

-a.m..to-5 p.m. will be.held. The Terrace Cubs will be asking for-dona-

tions to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon and will
be handing out red “strike back against stroke” stickers in return.
Please give generously. For further information, call 638-8464 or the
Foundation's head office toll free, 1-800-663-2010. ,

Saturday, June 15 — The Terrace Women's Resource Centre will be
having an Anti-Poverty support group at our facility from 7 to 9 p.m.
This meeting will be to encourage networking with other agencies in
Terrace and individuals who may have an Interest in ending poverty.

Saturday, June 15 — HOWDOYOUDO DAY!! The Terrace Travel In-
foCentre would like to invite the entire community to come join them
on their open house from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This special day is the of-
ficlal opening of another busy touristic season. Come in and see what
the IntoCentre has to offer you, Its residents, as well as thelr visitors.

Sunday, June 16 — No-host luncheon for Provincial Liberal Party
Members at 2 p.m. at Gims Restaurant. All interested people walcome.
Please try to be on time. Call 635-5731 (let it ring) for more information.
Sunday, June 16 — Music in the Park on Father's Day at 2 p.m. in the
Bandshell by the Terrace Community Band (Thank-you Concert)
Monday, June 17 — The Millis Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will be hav-
ing their wind-up meeting at 6 p.m. at Avaline McConnell's home at
Lakelse Lake. All members (old and new) are welcome. Hope to see
you all there!

_ Tuesday, June 18 — A diabetic teaching clinic will be held at Mills
Memorial Hospital.

Tuesday, June 18 — Friends and Families of Schizophrenics Support
‘Group meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Mills Memorial Hospital psych con:
ference room. Contact 638-3325 for further information.

Thursday, June 20 — Terrace Women's Resource Centre is holding a
workshop — Public Speaking. Come join us for an overview of how to
be an effective speaker. Please pre-register at 638-0228.

Saturday, June 22 — The Terrace Women’s Resource Centre will be
holding their annua! general meeting at 11 a.m. at the Centre. All
members are requested to attend. New members are also welcome.

Saturday, June 22 — B.C. Senlors' Games Society (Zone 10) monthly

general meeting at 2 p.m. in the Seniors’ Centre, Kitimat. A social
evening, dancing and refreshments to follow at 7:30 p.m. in the Kitimat
Legion Hall.

June 21 to 23 — Crafts people are invited to participate in the eighth
Midsummer Festival In Smithers. For any information or application
forms, write to the Midsummer Festival Committee, P.O. Box 2209,
Smithers, B.C. VOU 2NO... or phone Pat Bradley at 846-5422.

Wednesday, June 26 — Start up group meeting of Canadian
Crossroads International at 7:30 p.m. at Northwest Community Col:
lege, room 2002 (cafeteria bullding). Looking for people interested in
cross-cultural and development education activities. For further Infor:
mation, call Kim Saulnier at 635-6776,

Thursday, June 27 — The Terrace Women's Resource Centre will be
showing the film “Ruth", a woman's moving story of childhood
physical, mental and sexual abuse, or her work as a prostitute, and her
determination to stay off drugs, at 1 p.m. at the Centre.

July and August (through Labour Day) — A park interpreter is
available to conduct guided hikes and educational programs for
school groups or other organizations. To book your group, call the
B.C. Parks office al 798-2277. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: day
and evening programs. Sundays: day program (Jerry's Rangers) and

evening program. Mondays: evening program.

Fee questions divert

angling policy forum

Impact on tourism

concerned

has guides

by Tod Strachan.

- A public meeting in Terrace last
Thursday night was supposed to
offer an opportunity for people to
voice their opinion on some pro-
posed changes to Angling Use
Plans for the upper Skeena and
Kispiox rivers. It appears, how-
ever, there is little concem.

At the advertised time of 7.p.m.

only two local residents had

arrived, The meeting began at 7:15
p.m. with 12 people in the room.

“Two more people showed up in

the first 15 minutes of the meeting,
bringing the total number of inter-
ested anglers and guides to 14.

Economics and the $10 per day fee
for non-resident anglers, however,
was of more interest to these
people than Angling Use Plans.

Under current licensing regula-
tions, if you’re a B.C. resident
between the ages of 16 and 64 and
want to fish for steelhead and
chinooks, you have to pay $17 ($1
for seniors) for an annual licence,
$7 for a steelhead licence and $3
for a chinook stamp. A total of
$27 for -the:yéar? And'if you‘ want
to fish in a Class I river — the
Babine, Dean, Gitnadoix, Sustut
rivers, or the Copper river above
Limonite Creek — you will have
to pay an additional $1 for each
day you want to fish.

If you’re not a B.C. resident,
though, you will pay a lot more. If
you're Canadian, it will cost you
$39 for the licences and chinook
stamp. And if you’re not Canadian,
it will cost $72 for licences and
the stamp. On top of that, if you
want to fish Class I rivers, it will
cost another $20 a day, and to fish
Class II waters it will cost you
another $10 a day.

In the Nortnwest region, there
are Class II waters on 20 rivers.
These include two sections of the
Skeena River; from Exchamsiks to
a point 1.5 kilometres above the
Kitsumkalum River, and from the
headwaters to a point 15 kilo-
metres upstream of the Copper
River. Other Class J] rivers close
to home are the Kitsumkalum,
Kitwanga, Lakelse, Kispiox, and
the Copper from Limonite Creek
to the Skeena.

Some local residents think the
high cost of non-resident licences
is chasing tourists away. An
American angler who wanied to
fish the Remo sandbar for a week,
for cxample, would have to pay
$142 in licensing fees, and accord-
ing to Terrace angling guide Gord
Judzentis, this is chasing non-resi-
dent anglers away from Terrace.
He suggested the system might be
more fair if there was a $10 daily
fcc for non-resident anglers on all
rivers.

Asan example, the Kitimat River
is unclassified and there is no $10
daily charge, and our American

tourist could fish there for
steelhead and salmon for only $72.
And he could economize even
further. If he scratched his
stcelhead ambitions and went after

_just chinook, he could get away

with buying a six-day licence
instead of one that covered a full
year, But he might still be inclined
to head for Kitimat. His six days
of fishing would cost $78 at the
Remo sandbar and only $18 in the
Kitimat River.

Not everyone agrees with Jud-
zentis, though. The majority of
those attending last Thursday’s
meeting were more positive. Last
year was the first in the province
for classified rivers and daily non-
resident fees and we only have to
wait for non-resident anglers to get
used to the new rates.

As Region 6 Fish and Wildlife

manager Bob Hooton explains,
there was a negative reaction sev-

eral years ago when steelhead tags
went from 25 cents to $2. But
while it reduced the number of
tags sold, it didn’t reduce the num-
ber of people fishing for steelhead.
Hooton also points out that the
average ‘tourist still has plenty of
opportunity to fish unclassified
waters, Non-residents can fish, for
example, at Ferry Island or Lakelse
Lake and pay only $15 for a six-
day licence or $27 for an annual
licence.

Hooton says the only people who
are really affected by the daily fee
are "trophy hunters". And those
people will pay the price. Federal
fisheries officer John Hipp agrees:
"We have fishing here second to
none and I don’t see anything
wrong with getting our value for
it," he says. "The fishing in the
Kalum right now is phenomenal."

And even if a few non-resident
fishermen don’t return to our area
because of the cost, it might not
make any difference to our econ-
omy anyway. Hooton says the
classification system and daily fee
schedule were put into effect in the
first place because non-resident
fishermen were parking their
motorhomes at key fishing spots
for up to eight weeks at a time,
contributing little to local econ-
omies.

Local fishing enthusiast Tom
Protheroe agrees with Hooton. He
says local sports fishermen spend
thousands of dollars in Terrace
every year; as much or more than
the annual influx of non-resident
anglers. Protheroc also has food
for thought for those who complain
of the daily levy on classified
waters. "The people who complain
about $10 a day for fishing," he
says, “are willing to pay $50 a day
for golf and $45 a day for skiing."

As interesting as this debate was,
though, there was some discussion
on Angling Use Plans as well.

Hooton says the upper Skeeria (1.5 —

kilometres upstream of the Copper
to the headwaters) is under-util-
ized; 11 of 18 licensed guides only
used 250 guided rod days last
summer. Current regulations pro-

vide for 24 guides and 3,000 rod -

days, and Hooton suggests the
number of licensed guides should
be lowered to 10 and available rod
days should be changed to 1,000.
Because of the short "window" in
the upper Skeena, though, Terrace

angling guide Jim Culp suggests.

ihere may be room for more than
10 guides if each applies only for
what they think they can use;
perhaps between 50 to 80 rod
days. "Access is difficult,” says
Culp. "Everybody should be realis-
tic." ;

Hooton agreed with this sugges-
tion and it could become a part of
the upper Skeena guiding licence

formula, but if and when any ~

changes are actually made to the
upper Skeena quota, Hooton sug-
gests, there might be a more com-
plicated formula. Because most
sports fishermen and angling
guides tend to congregate around
Kitwanga and Hazelton due to easy
access, raising the rod days from
250 to 1,000 might mean four
times the problem. He says, there-
fore, they might consider "zoning
in time and space".

Other ideas being considered by
Hooton include de-classifying
portions of the upper Skeena and
regulating other sections of river
for drift boats. And he had an idea
that might take pressure off the
Kitwanga and Hazelton areas.
There is an opportunity to develop
better access at several points
along the upper Skeena, he says,
and this would encourage use in
areas where access is difficult at
the present time.

Little change was suggested for. .

the Kispiox Angling Use Plan. The
Kispiox has been a favoured desti-
nation since the 1950s when world

record tackle and fly tackle
steelhead catches were reported. It
scems the current plan and. daily
non-resident fee has corrected the
overcrowding problem there, how-
ever. According to one angling
guide, the number of fishermen
using the Kispiox dropped notice-
ably last year. "I liked it," he says.
"It was nice fishing.”

And finally, one other change
was suggested that might become
a provincial policy. Hooton was
told that tourists driving into areas
of Class II water are “driving into

a nightmare" due to the lack of

appropriate signing that notify
anglers of restricted waters. Local
sports fisherman Don Gillanders
told Hooton that signs are needed
on both highways and rivers at the
boundaries of all Class I and II
waters, and federal fisheries officer
John Hipp agrees. Hipp says that
because of the lack of appropriate
signs he has had difficulty charg-
ing fishermen who are unaware

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