Bd - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 27, 1999 CHRISTIANA WIENS’ » KEENA ANGLER ROB BROWN Fishy fugitives our years ago the Ministry of En- vironment, Lands, and Parks and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food asked the Environmental Assessment Office to conduct a review of the adequacy of current processes used by the two ministries in regulating and managing salmon aqua culture operations in British Colum- bia. Over the course of that review, the gover-" inent placed a moratorium on new salmon farm- ing tenures, ; The right-wing media giants, hand maidens for corporate capitalisin that they are, with would like us to belicve that every problem, great or small, is the result of ineptitude on the part of our provin- cial government. The New Democrats have taken some heat for their handling of the aqua culture Situation, and they will undoubtedly take a lot nore No matter What course they choose to pursuc now that the review by the Environmental Assess- nent Office is complete, The aqua culture issuc is complex aud difficult. When judging the provincial government's haid- ling of it, we need to remember that the whole fish farming mess is the lepacy of the Socred regimes of Billy Bennett and Willy VanderZalm. When it became clear there was a lot of money in aqua culture, the cabinet of Bennett the Younger was quick to move on it. By the time Vander- Zalm’s wretched rule was mercifully aver, there |° were fish farms up and down the coast: Environmental groups, the Stecthead Society foremost amongst them, wrote letter after letter. to; " Vvels. Ol gove, tswarni . whee a it . own aie . all levels. of government; arming, thal, the. aqua. Y qgarter made the differences uOn 5 Friday, Jan, “as the Kermades’ went up culture industry: was.by: no- ‘méans*icléan. ‘Of! course, the Socreds, who never cared much for greenies, and whose aclious clearly shaw they viewed the Ministry of the Environment as an im- pedimeut to economic growth and fiscal well- being, powered ahead nonetheless, — In salmon farming, the fish are raised in cap- tivity from the egg stage until they are ready to be Shipped to market. The process begins with the collection and fertilization of eggs. from ‘mature female salmon. The fertilized eggs are kept in in- cubation trays at company hatcheries, After a mouth, or so, the ova are transferred to freshwater rearing tanks where they are raised 10 smolts. The _ smolts are then transported to saltwater farms where they are raised to market size. Originally coho and chinook were farmed ex- clusively, but, as usual, greed won out over sense. It was discovered Allantic salmon were cheaper to raise because of their high tolerance to stocking densities and because they grow more quickly. Environmentalists got exercised once again, and rightly so for the introduction of exotic species {even in penned environments) is a dangerous act, as has been vividly demonstrated all over the planet. Norway, the last bastion of great sportfishing . more Caledonia’s defense looked THERE’S nothing like Skiing a giant alpine race on your owl course to put a smile on local skiers’ faces, “Tt’s excelloul,” said coach, ' Andrew Rushton. - Sixty-eight skiers . from 100 Mile -House to Whitehorse raced through the rainbow, short cut and back eddy courses to. cover a 230-metre vertical drop.” On Saturday, Jan. 16 skiers tore through 29 gates _ in hard-packed snow. With no Terrace entries in the the boys 15-18 age group, Prince’ George grabbed silver and gold but 14-year-old Mathieu Leclerc from Shames racked wp .an impressive 49,42 race time lo finish less than two sec- onds off the best male time, Leah Leclere, Stacey Blake and Shaunon Kelly completed their first races Kermodes’ look strong as winning streak continues CALEDONIA’S senior boys basketball team added another win to their record, last week in an end-to-end battle against Hazelton. The game, which ended 69-66 Caledonia, was 40-38 Terrace at the half. Only one weck earlier the boys put in a very good defensive effort against . Hazelton on their own turf, Ih" the, second and third 74-35 at the end of: three quarters. Coach Cam MacKay then mixed up his line up to give less experienced players ‘floor tims. And TERRACE STANDARD Shames’ race day ever in fourth, fifth, and six- th positions. On Sunday, the skiers lacKied the slopes twice for a two-run race that saw Smithers’ Erin Harvard came in third overalt: ~ Mathieu Lecter from Ter. tace finished on top of his age group again with a com- bined time of 1,.41,78, Aaron Gingles placed fourth almost 14 seconds behind Leclerc ‘and Courtland Sandover-Sly won gold in the boys 13-15 age group. or HEADING YOUR of two runs at Shames' in . WAY: Mathieu Leclere on his first Merill Lynch/B.C, Alpine Norther Zone giant slalom race Sunday, Jan. 17: strong with four Caledonia players recording double- digit score totals. “Hazelton did not play like the team they’ could be,” said MacKay. Billed to be dark horse in the AA zones, Hazelton showed potential by ont- scoring the Kermodes 34-18 in the final quarter of play to make, the game final 92-69... Caledonia, “" 15 Caledonia beat Prince Rupert 80-71 in a game full of intense action. The clas- sic Kennode-Raiumaker batile was stacked with changing leads and lots of physical play. Caledonia took the first quarter by a only two points, making the score 19-17. Mackay said the Kermodes could have easily been up by 10 but the Rain- makers kept the game close by capitalized on Kermode mental errors. The Kermodes then got into trouble with three starter picking up three fouls ach in the first half and, the. Prince; Rupert’s- discipline , took over, The Rainmakers led at the end of the third quarter 59- 56. , But Caledonia’s Mike Hovanes didn’t let down the home-town crowd in - the final quarter by leading the _Kermodes to a 12-point 638-7283 scoring run. MacKay called the game *“scrambly”’ as the Kermodes fought to come back from an 11-paint loss. Saturday, Jan, 16’s game was a high-scoring, close game with a lead that never exceeded eight points. The Kermode’s won the match 93-87. MacKay said there Were - obvious , defensive lapses'by both teams in such. high-scoring. -. games, -. The Kermode defense also lapsed as Ryan Bishop, a Rainmaker shooter, scored 36 points. The Kermode offense on the other hand was balanced with as five separate players scored in the double digits, Rebound’s key to girls’ success COACHES and referees of a north- tournament nominated .Terrace’s Tabitha Nen- ninger as Tournament All Star Jan, west girls — basketball 15-16. - Alan Neufeld was happy with the Caledonia’s girls’ offence after threc games Jan. 15-16, Jenn Vanderlee leads the team in ag- gressive drives for the basket but Vanderlee bad Kathy Arbuah and Megan Corp’s help. Both girls ex- ecuted effective drives in getting bas- kets and drawing fouls from the oppo- On Jan. 15, the against Prince Secondary here. Prince Rupert won the match 47-45 Tabitha Neufeld is alsa sceing.more aggres- sive play under the basket as the girls grabbed the more rebounds and pre- vented other teams from setting up “crucial plays under the basket. Nenninger Vanderlee (11 points) and Danna Haworth (10 points) ted the scoring. Heather Kelly, a steady force on the team, set up excellent plays and Corp girls squared off Rupert Senior and Caledonia’s (12 points), team. sive defense, Saturday, squashed Smithers in Hazeiton 64-48. Nenninger (18 points) and Vanderlee (16 points) led the scoring while three scorers racked in cight points each. Game three of the tournament was played in Houston against an ever-popular hometown Caledonia lost the action- packed squecker 47-45. Nenniger (18 points), Vanderlee (11 points) and ‘Corp (6 points) were Terrace’s lead- ing scorers and all three had great Jan. 16 Caledonia multi-vente _ tournament. Juniors’ beat Kitimat - SKEENA’s junior boys bas- ketball team managed to beat Kitimat Jan. 15, but came up short in Houston one day later. And Wildcat coach Scott _ Stewart knows his team can do better. “At this time of year, we need our senior players to start playing with intensity and an aggressiveness, espe-- cially against bese older and more physical senior high teams,” said Stewart. ‘Kitimat played hard Fri- day, Jan. 15 but they still losilo the Wildcats 77-42, Skeena wasn’t quite so lucky when they travelled to Houston Jan. 16 for senior The young team fared well in the in the first game, losing by six points in a 49-43 game final. Robert Haugland led the Wildcat’s with 18 points, In their second game Skeena played the number- 10 ranked single ‘A’ Hous- ton team, The Wildcats looked whipped after the first quarter ended 24-5 Houston but the team managed to rack up some shots in the 77-54 Houston final. Skecna’s Sean Dusdal led the team’s * standings with 12 points while Grade for European Atlantic salmon, had to poison over ‘| sition. Jed the team in rebounds and aggres- rebounds, 8 point guard Bryan Mat- thirty of its wild salmon rivers because the fish in thews played well. those rivers had been infected with diseases intro- ’ = duced by escapees from nearby fish farms. In BC WOMEN’S SOCCER Mid-season hockey stats the occurrence of such a disaster would be even ae . . more catastrophic sinoc fish farm fugitives pose a | | Recreational league standings to Dec. 31 threat, as disease vectors, but they may also pose a OWe i OWe r | O S Ee 7 a coipetitive threat to wild indigenous salmon that ; fe Team Cable Canad ap w L r ‘PTS ; : “| Skeena Cable Canadians deal with nough ‘avironmental — " fi ee ze Chapter One Aeros 2 i 4 #5 2? , : : | ! ee, °F All Season’s Lightning 22 9 %F 44) 22 Last year the prophecies of -the Steelhead | 'f S a C O Year “| Precision Buliders 20 8 8 4 20 Society came to pass when Atlantic Salmon juve- + J Back Eddy Bulllas 2 5S 14 1 11 niles were discovered in the Tsitika River. The ‘THERE’S a first for everything. make the final 5-1. ; ‘J White Spot 20 4 #13 383 ~ «11 Tsitika is a wild river with no hatcheries or other Ladies soccer Tuesday, Jan. 19 saw the And Jate action Thursday night pitched — Leading scorers facilitics in ils watershed. Except.for a small league-leading Flower Power lose for the Braid Insurance against the Purple q release of steclhead fry which came from the river first time this scason in a 1-0 game against’ Panthers, Lianne Funk scored in the first Team ™ G A PTS PIM some twenty years ago, there has been no stack- Beginner's Luck. The Beginner’s trait half to put Braid Insurance ahead. The Troy Butler SCG 27 24 51 12 ing there, About three kilometres upstream on the | Flower Power by 16 points this season and Panthers tied the game late in the second Troy Ferkvam COA 27 22 49 18 river there is a barrier to pink, dog, chinook, and: their big win was brought to them by goal half with a goal from Barb Bissanti to end ‘lan Alger SCG 28 15 43 15 sockeye adults and juveniles, Until recently; only - scorer, Linda Zimmerling.. the match 1-1. Mitch Shinde re 4 a7 a 18 dolly varden, sea trout, coho and steethead made ‘The low-scoring theme took root in the |. Hele ns ASL 27 11 3B 3 it over the barricr, In the last few years Allantic, | second game of the night when Artistic Leading scorers to Jan. 20 ‘| Dave Jones PB 4B 19 «37.73 salmon were sighted ‘there, and rhe regional .[ Hair Design took on-the Purple Panthers in . cha d Meky PB é 4 38 24 fisheries staff have captured Atlantle salmon ju- | a0-0 tie, AeKeme veuiles above the barrier. . Other games last week saw Blessings atid iE wood Goals oat aris Emile Gagnon _ : scC 14 13 27 8 Barring alien intervention, it was patently ob- Braid Insurance play to a 3-3 drawand the Pat Koznk 15 Flower Power Oldtimer's standings to Dec, 31 vious that these fish were the progeny of fish farm Back Eddy. Butlets defeat Oasis Sports 6-2. Heid Siebring 13° Back Eddy Bullets escapecs. Being good scientists, the provincial Thursday’s games ended 2-0 Artistic Hair Diana. Wood 1L Beginaers Luck “| Team GP W oL fT -pPts biologists subjected. the fish to tests and con- when they played against the Blessings, . Pam Kawinsky Il Oasis Sporis NM Inn Okles 2002«413=~=~C*dS 8 firmed that Atlantic salmon are getting out of Flower Power alse beat out Oasis Sports in Barb Bissanti 10 Purple Panthers Terrace Timbermen 40.685 3 3 19 iheir pens and occupying niches left because of } a 1-0 game, Lori Kasperski 10 Back Eddy Bullets qerrace Subway a 3 MF 3 dwindling steclhead runs. , _ The week before saw the Back Eddy Bul- Carmen McChesney 8 Braid Insurance SRD B ues a Fish farms are hard on the ocean bottom and ad- lets take on Beginner’s Luck, Lori Sheila Denomme = 8 ~—Oasis Sports Leading scorers jacent marine environs, They have siting prob- Kasperski wasted no time putting the Bul- Te a tandi : 7 Te: Sea Jems vis-a-vis marine tourism and: First Nations lets on the board when she teceived a great eam 8 ndings “Team =. ™ G A_ PTS PIM endeavours; but the threat they pose to our wild pass from: the corner, Back Eddy strength- Team Ww L “| Darcey Mallet: TT 22 19 #41 «9 salmonids — now confirmed on tie Tsitika — is. ented their lead with goals from Heldi Siebr- Flower Power 15 1 oy m ‘|B. Walkenshaw NM ' g 8 23 ; 2 tore than sufficient to warrant a continued | ing(2)and-Rhonda Abou... Oasis 9 -§ 44D: Seeatounat TT 6 415 21 3 moratorium on the expansion of the industry, The Miscommunication between the’ Back - Artistic Hair 4 ood ( Payjack NMG 14 20 3 provincial = government — should - keep’ the |. Eddy defense resulted in Beginner's. Lick - Beginner's Luck — 6 Cb RE an Frose =. -NMI-10 7 17 0 moratorium in place aid move aggressively on netting a goal. The Beginness-putina good. Purple Panthers 3 - 6g Sid Bandstra.- SWY5 12 #17. 6 the recommendations in the Salton Aqua culture [| defensive effort. in the “second: half but: Braid Insurance 3 7.7300 ; Porat wy? 5 i a7 Review that deal with cleaning up the existing |° couldn’t. finish. The only. goal of the half Back Eddy Bullets 5 84 BG a M Molaskt NMI 6 9 18 24 facilities, © 0S re “was Lori Kaspeérski’s second of the night.to Blessings. «> “3 io 4 28. _ =