AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Fish closure devastating

Dear Sir:

I have been working in the fishing-tourism industry for
10 years now. As a fishing guide I have a very keen inter-
est in the preservation of salmon stocks.

But what the Department of Fisheries and Oceans came
up with this time is absolutely deadly for the sportfishing
industry in Terrace, Let's face it, the tourists do not come.
here to go trout fishing, they come for salmon, By closing
the Skeena River for all salmon fishing (that means no
catch and release) from Aug. 2 to Sept. 5 the DFO has all
but put a sign up saying, “We don’t want’ you to come
here and spend money on sport fishing.’

The $2 million the DFO is planing on spending on an ad
campaiga to promote fishing in B.C. comes much too late
and is a waste of our tax dollars. The damage is already
done, most fishing guides and lodges around Terrace have
63 to 80 per cent cancellation tates from overseas

customers,

This, in conjunction with a 1000 per cent (yes, no
misprint — 1000 per cent) increase in guiding licence fces
last st Year will close the doors of fishing lodges around Ter-

er a
CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE.TERRACE STANDARD

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The DFO wants to protect the coho run in the Skeena,
which is good and understandable. But a proper catch and
release program with barbless hooks for coho would save
the industry and would hardly effect the survival rate, as
has been shown with the catch and release program with

stecihead on the Skeena.

Logging almost gone, commercial and sporfishing gone,
tourists gone — Terrace gone.
Alexander Hruby, Terrace, B.C.

(received via email)

Recycling, environment ignored

An open letter to:
Regional District of
Kitimat Stikine

Dear Sirs:

This letter is in response
to the subregional landfill
study solid waste collection
questionnaire,

There is no awareness of
the possibility of recycling
as the indicated by the num-
ber of garbage cans (3) per
household that would be
picked up weekly.

The possibility of reduc-
ing the amount of garbage
to be disposed of should be
considered. The © Terrace
area has the ability to sup-
port a full recycling centre
as other towns smaller than
the Terrace area have done.

Composting, recycling of
pegr products, cans and
glass are basic to the model
of recycling and environ-
mental impact awareness
and management.

Moving the dump out and
onto the Onion Lake area is
an atlempt to move the
problem out of sight and, as

a consequence, out of mind, -
district

The regional ~
should initia recycling as a
mandatory step in the man-
agement of solid waste. To
do otherwise is negligent.

-The other area of concem< JJ

is the alternate location of
the dump to the Onion Lake
arca, This is a high use

Credit given
Dear Sir: ,

Re: front page article June
3, 1998: Hospital trims
surgery time.

- While it is admirable that
the Terrace Area Com-
munity Health Council,
feels the newly purchased
endoscopy cquipment will
save money and cut the
budget, let's
where it is due.

This equipment purchase
was spearheaded by Drs.
Evans and Dunficld and
made possible by donations
from Hydrecs Fund, Terrace
Rotary, Order of Eastem
Star, Terrace Royal Purple
& Elks Clubs, Terrace
Shrine Club, the medical
staff, personal donations and
Dr. R.E.M. Lee Foundation,

No monies have been
forthcoming from either the
B.C. Ministry of Health or
Mills Memorial Hospital.

Fund raising is on going

and donations may be sent.

to the Dr. R.E.M. Lee Foun-

‘dation, Box 1067, Terrace
B.C. V8G 4V1,

Marylin Davies,

Chairman, Dr.

R.E.M. Lee Foundation

Useless law

Dear Sir:

We were stopped recently
by a police officer while rol-
ler blading down Park Ave.

To our surprise she asked

us to remove our roller —e

blades as there is a by-law
in Terrace against them.
Roller blading is a form of
transportation and should be
pemnitted, What is ihe dif-
ference between roller blad-
ing, skate boards and
bicycles?
. We waderstand that proper
safety equipment should be
worm, 80 we do not sce ral-
ler blading as Illegal. Things
that are iflegal should not be
sold in stores, and you can
find roller blades anywhere,
We find this law useless.
Heather Wilson,
Michelle Fawdrey, and
Amanda Hart.
Terrace, B.C,

give credit’ &

recreation area.
There is extensive snow-
mobiling, hiking, skiing,

fishing, camping at small
lakes, mountain bike riding,
climbing, etc. along with a
number of forest recreation
use sites. These are all en-
joyed within an environ-
ment that has an outstanding
tree growing ability.

Did you say you want a
major regional landfill
dump here? It is also the
drainage base for both the

Lakelse Lake and the
Kitimat River,

The Onion Lake area is a
permeable base of gravel
and sand that will not hold
waste drainage. How do you
intend to prevent the con-
tamination of these waters
from toxic wastes?

There are high fishery and
recreation . values
downstream along with
community water uses that
also need to be considered.

I hope these areas of con-

cerns will be investigated
further as the overall in-
tegrity of the environment
needs to be addressed,

There is a lack of recogni-
tion of the need for the
ploper tmanagement of
waste. The principles of
recycling and sustainability
aren’t addressed.

As well there is a lack of
recognition of the values of
recreation and water quality
for the people of this area.

Cheryl Brown, Terrace

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