B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 27, 1998 Save coho plan hurts locals: FISHING LODGE owners gay they’ve just lost thou- sands of dollars in business as a result of plans to ban any fishing that could threaten endangered coho in late summer. ‘Tt’s mind-boggling the money we're talking about that’s going to be lost," said angling guide Steve Nick- olls, of Komaham Lodge. “The lodges consider themselves closed for busi- ness afler Aug. 7,’’ he said. “It’s unbelievable — Ive never seen anything like. it,”’ Fishing lodge owners like: Dieter Hruby, of Skeena River Fishing Lodge, and Wolfgang Voelker, of Kermodei Bear Lodge, say the decision is wiping out bookings they had for Sep- tember aud October, In a normal year, Hruby and Voelker’s lodges do a combined business of nearly $1 million a year, they said. Much of that has spinoff effects in the Terrace econo- my.- Hruby says he normally employs up to £0 workers on a $142,000 three-month payroll to handle about 170 guests through the season. “T have a cook, cham- bemaids, three guides — it all adds up,’” he says. And even if some sport fishing of stcelhcad, chincok and sockeye is al- lowed after coha enter the river, Hruby says the inter- national perception that B.C.’s rivers ate devoid of fish will dramatically hurt the industry. “This is going around like wildfire in Germany,’ he said, adding people there are changing their vacation plans right now. “We can’t tell the client whether he can even angle,’ Nickolls added. “He knows he can’t keep a coho, but we don’t know if he can cven angle the Skeena.’’ “You're not going to fly all the way from Germany to not fish.” Lodge owners are particu- larly angry that they've just paid fees for their guiding licences to the government. Those fecs have shot up by 1,100 per cent from a year ago. Not only will most lodges not be able to use all the days of guiding they've just paid for this year, there will Dieter Hruby “This is criminal,’’ he says. “‘It’s not fair.”” Nickolls said local tackle shops will likely also be badly hurt, adding they depend on coho fishermen likely be no refunds. “These guides have paid anywhere from $4,000 to $15,000 for their licence and now they find out they can’t even use it,’’ Nickalls said. “It’s a really grim situation.”’ Hruby says he’s just had to shell out $11,000 for his guide fees, for a significant chunk of, Anderson has ‘right stuff FISHERIES MINISTER David Anderson’s move to preserve B.C. coho is tough but necessary medicine, says B.C. Steelhead Socicty past president Bruce Hill. He said the decision had to be made to save the species. “This is one of the most courageous posi- tions ever taken by a federal fisheries min- ister,” Hill said of Anderson. ‘“This guy is deadly serious about saving salmon. He’s the real thing. He’s got the right stuff as far as I’m concerned.’’ From front Hill said the Stcelhead Society bas for years called for curtailment of commercial fishing to cult down on the bycatch of threatencd coho and steelhead stocks. “What Anderson’s done we'd have to come to sooner or later unless we're prepared to accept the extinction of coho.”’ Hill said the sacrifices being made by the B.C. sport, commercial and native fishermen now sel the stage for tougher negotations with Alaska to get the state to easc ils catch of B.C.-bound salmon. Total shutdown feared Another possibility is that non-coho fish- ing will be allowed on lower tribularies of the Skeena — like the Kalum, Exchamsiks, and Gitnadoix — where the endangered up- per Skeena coho would not be found. : “There’s not much leeway there at all,” Culp said. ‘‘But we’ve got to find a way that our sportfishery can fish and not target on coho. I:’s absolutely essential.’ “The whole situation has gone a huge distance further than any of us in the sporl- fishing sector would have ever imagined,” he added. The sportfishing restrictions will extend out into the ocean, where fishing for halibut, chinook, ling cod —t and just about any kind of fish where coho might be pres- ent — will also likely be banned. Ui Oothing,-Footwe Aad il’s not just the recreational sector that will suffer, The commercial fleet will also face what amounts to a total closure on fishing once coho arriva And even natives — who have first right to fish after conservation needs are taken into account — will not be allowed to con- duct net food fisheries when coho are in the river. The only fishing that may be allowed on the Skeena after that point could be selec- tive fisheries involving techniques like fish wheels, traps and weirs. ‘We're challenging the fishery,”’ Einar- son said, ‘Can you design the fishery thal does not catch these fish when present? If so that’s a truly selective fishery and that’s what we're looking for.” iGollectibles’ > Wednesday, May 27 . to Saturday, May 30 Birthday Week! | i ee, “Saturday Events” Local musicians under the Maple tree Cake and lemonade Thanks For 5 Fun Years! =e aie. oe} 4548 Lazelle Avenue >SURPRISE PARTY! sings re coke Wolfgang Voelker their business, The measures announced by the federal fisheries min- ister were also aimed at put- ting pressure on the Alaskan government to now do its share to conserve B.C.- bound fish stocks. But Voelker and others are skeptical about whether B.c.’s_ sacrifices will have any effect on the Alaskans. “They've get the biggest hatchery in the world now and it’s called B.C,” Voelker said, Tertace city councillor Val George said the situa- tion is extremely bad news for tourism here, “Once the word gets out in Europe and Japan they'll just assume there’s hardly any fishing here and they’Il go somewhere _ else,’’ George said, ‘YT think the guiding in- dustry is going to be hit dramatically no matter what the eventual openings are,’’ he said, LUCKY DOLLAR BINGO MAY 1998 PALACE MAY 1998 “SUNDAY: MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY . ‘THURSDAY | -FRIDAR | SATURDAY , 3 | 1 Conan ? 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