The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 21, 1993 - Page A3 News in brief Docs interested in Terrace MORE MEDICAL specialists are interested in coming here because of cuts elsewhere, says a Terrace Regional Health Care Sociely spokesman. “There are closures of services in other paris of Canada,’ said Michael Leisinger of the response to ads looking for a radiologist who'll be using the new CT scan machine coming on line this No- vember. " Two Canadian radiologists are vying for the position while anoth- -er. Candian and a South African. have also expressed interest, Leisinger added. Several people are also in the running to replace obstetrician Dr- Doug Wateman who is leaving for Victoria this fall. Ministry battles dust SUMMER MEANS dust on gravel roads and the the highways min- istry has a plan to counteract the gritty clouds. The ultimate solution to this problem would be to pave all the roads, but that is fiscally impossible, Instead, we control the dust problem using other means thal are less costly to taxpayers,” says regional highways director Jon Buckle. Liquid or flake calcium chtoride and liquid magnesium chloride — both are non-toxic and environmentally safe — are used. Some of the work is done by the maintenance contraclors and some by the ministry, - worked to get the wheel running last Friday. The net scoops’ || MYSTERY RAFT: The Kitselas band's fish wheel beneath ; "of the strange looking craft turn slowly, scooping up fish. the old bridge baffled some passers-by as native fishermen Ungainly wheel snagging Skeena sockeye salmon TERRACE — It looks like a paddle wheel without the river- boat. Locals scratching their heads about the — bizarre-looking wooden contraption gently turning on the waters beneath the Old Skeena River bridge need wonder no longer, It’s a. fish wheel and it's being operated by members of ihe Kiiselas band. Natives launched the wooden plaiform with two revolving netscoops last Friday, It’s tethered by steel cables to cyebolls in the rocks under .the.bridge, The: baskets turn with | the cutient, scooping fish -out-.of: ‘ thé water and depositing them Or at least that’s the theory. Kitselas natives operated a fish wheel last year upstream on the river at Kitselas Can- yon. That site, however, worked poorly, and the wheel was nearly destroyed in a series of mishaps. Kitselas fishermen predict the old. bridge. site will yield better results, And the very visible site will give local residents a much better Look at the selective fish- ing technology. The Kitselas have been allo- cated £0,000 sockeye under the native homeland fishery on the Skeena this summer. The fishery — which allows to fish for the Pinkut and Fulton runs of enhanced sock- eye, Those fish retura in numbers well above that requized for spawning. The gales are closed once the spawning beds on ' Babine Lake are full and the thousands of excess fish are left to.die outside the spawning grounds, Only those enhanced sockeye are taken — the coho, chinook, wild sockeye and steelhead also moving in the river are thrown back, Another fish wheel is being tested at a site downstream of the Gitnadoix River on the Skeena. And Nisga’a natives in the Gitwinksihlkw (Canyon City). Two of the wheels are of a new three-basket design that works better in lower water, says fishery consultant Bob Bocking. The Nisga’a fishery, how- ever, is strictly a catch-and- release tagging operation — not a commercial fishery. All species of salmon are being caught and tagged with either radio transmitters ‘or “‘spaghett’’ tags and released. Bocking estimates the fish wheels have caught two to three per cent of the sockeye run and five per cent of the chinook migrating through the canyon. We in some ways were lucky because we have a lot of Dust contro! costs approximately $1,500 per kilometre and some areas require two to three applications a season. It’s not a secret A PROFESSOR OF law and history from Ontario has been hired to- be B.C.’s first information and privacy commissioner. David Flaherty was selected from 222 applicants and is now get-— ting ready for the fall when freedom of information regulations come into play. The appointment is for six years and the privacy commissioner’s office will have a budget of more than $1 million. Flaherty has been a full time academic for almost 30 years and has written books and papers on the subject of freedom of informa- lion and protection of privacy. Alaska Highway improved FIVE CONTRACTS - totalling $2.909 million for work on the Alaska Highway have been announced by the federal government, The contracts are part of a six year plan lo spend $40 million on (he highway. Involved is crushing and stockpiling gravel and road improve- ments north of Fort Nelson. Also included is a contract to paint lines on the highway. The contracts are expected to ‘provide work for 45 people and be finished by.this November. All told, the federal. government is. spending $13, 5 million on cap- ital construction and $6.5 million on nate on the’ highway in: _ in-holding tanks along the: y , ae -40 commercially sell . Nass Valley are, successfully .. good sites;onthe Nassparticu- [> tls, rons a hb> ammo eon tl i 7 es ¥ frie ¥ of ie trained oa ab ~authorizes them” ra operating three fish wheels al = larly suited for fish whécis.? |, a eae Ne ~ ae & . ' be ie 1 ~. an . 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