Page BA — Terace Standard, Wednesday, July 15, 1992

Chance for adventure on the high seas

Who's the boss?

After years of board room
skirmishes, countless letters to
politicians and’ awareness tais-
ing initiatives, it appears the
managers in Federal Depart-
ment of Fisheries and Oceans
are gradually coming to the
realization that they are,

Because stocks of Skeena
summer run steelhead, cohos,
dog salmon, chinook and even
Some races sockeye are declin-
ing rapidly, the DFO, respond-
ing to political heat and the
need to act according to their
mandate, was prepared to im-
pose restrictions in time and
gear upon the commercial fish-
ing fleet that prowls the ap-
proach waters to Skeena.
Stringent restrictions ~- accord-
ing to the industry.

In response the industry con-
vinced the DFO that a program
of conservation and research
was worth atry,

A creature of the industry-
dominated North Coast Ad-

visory Board, the Stcclhead -

Conservalion and Research
Program set out to address the
by-catch of Skeena steelhead
by the net sector of the fishing
ficel by testing the viability of
catch-and-release from gillnet
and seine boats. :

At’ the same time. the
fishermen hope to compile a
body of knowledge on the
Skeena runs and to enhance the
communication. between all
user groups. --

During this summer’s fishery ‘

gillnetters' will endeavor to
release all steelhead immedi-
ately, Fish that are in poor

condition are to be placed in a

holding tank which the gillnet-
ters will be forced to have on
board as a condition of licens-

ing.

As ‘well, one hundred boats.

will be participating in a tag-
ging. program | and maintaining
a log,

Fishermen on the outside
waters will keep their steel-
head catch aboard in tubs until

The Skeena
Angler

by Rob Brown

they can be collected by a
retrieval vessel -- a steelhead
‘ambulance or recovery centre,
if you will -- that will hold the
fish so that they will not have
to navigate the net labyrinth
once released.

Seine boats that are not
equipped with hydraulic stern
ramps will be required to -brail
their fish aboard. Those seine
boats who wish to participate
in special. seine fisheries . in
Area 4 (the waters directly in
front of the mouth of the
Skeena) must also be equipped
with holding tanks and be
prepared to Jog their catches.

The processing plants will

also be participating in the |

conservation _ program. —. All
members of the. Northern Pro-
- cessors Association will forego
-direct purchases of steclhead.
Instead they will deposit the
proceeds ‘from. the processing
and sale-on any steclhead
delivered to them into a con-
servation fund which is to be
administered by the North
Coast Advisory Board.

If the program is to have any
ercdibilily both the commercial
and sport fishing sectors real-
ize that there must be some im-
partial observers aboard the
vessels to monitor operations

and to collect informalion on
the health of the fish, the sur-
vival rate, the numbers of fish
caught and so on.

To this end a crew of ten

paid observers hired by an in-
dependent contractor, Ministry
of Environment personnel, and
volunteer observers from the
sportfishing sector will be
placed aboard boats with dip-
boards and tally sheets,
This is where you come in. If
you have a thirst for adventure
and would like ta find. out
more about how the commer-
cial fishery operates, contact
me, the grisled old Skeena.
Angler, at 635 - 9351 and I
will arrange to have you placed
upon a fishing vessel for one,
two or three days.

Each day you. will be taken
out info the fleet by charter
boat and put aboard a gillnetter
operated by a friendly skipper.
We will cover expenses to the
tune of $75 per day, $35 dol-
lars of which will go to a motel
room at the Neptune in Rupert.

. together.

Of course we will havea quick .
orientation that will show you
what to look for and how to
gather dala. a

For Skeena spor fishers who
are concerned ‘about declining.
steelhead, coho, . and chinook
runs, here. isan ideal op-
portunity to rub shoulders with
a with a commercial:fisherman,
and see how business is done.
out there in the brine.’ v3 ;

By the. end of this season we |. 2

should know if " catch-and-
release is a viable option for
the net fleet, both the provin- .
cial and federal managers will
have more valuable. data than.
they have had previously, and,
hopefully a better method of
gathering it.
If there is a solution to. the
‘thorny problems arising from
mixed stock fisheries it is more. .
likely to be found by sport and
commercial Gsherinen working

The Observer Program is a
hesitant first step in this direc-
tion.

_ final,

Official
junior
tennis
action

The sun shone and so did the

players as Terrace hosted its

first sanctiondd Junior tennis
tournament on the Interior cir-
cuit,

Celebrating the local club’s
arrival on ihe circuit in fine
style were Darren Shalupiak
and Marcel Page with a victory
in an all-Terrace under-14 dou-
bles final.

Although they took the
match in straight sets, it wasn’t
as easy as that sounds.

After cruising to a comfort-
able 6-2 first set win, the duo
faced a determined rally by
clubmaies Frank Gration and
Chris. Hernes, -

‘However; . Shalupiak --

‘Page were. able:to put it away .

with, a-7-6 tie breaker win in
the final set.

. For Page, the result was con-
solation - for the. under-i4

singles where he tan into -

Kitimat’s: Mitchell Sierecki in
the final,

Sierecki wasted hittle time in |
taking the title 6-0, 6-1.
’ Gration took the consolation -

side of that event, ©
Tn ‘under-18 action, Jeremy
Lafontaine led the local chal-

“Jenge but had to settle’ for a
_ couple of:tear misses.

Partnering Shane Rooker of
Prince: George in the doubles

wrong side of a'6-4, 6:2 result

. against the Prince George pair-

ing’ of. Les Anklovitch and
Jaspaul Bul. ,

“hé.-came out: on--the ’

{VE GOT IT Marcel Page assures. his doubles ‘partner Dar-
ren Shalupiak during Terrace’s first sanctioned junior tennis
tournament. The duo were victorious in the under-14 final.

Anklovitch is ranked number
nine, for his age group in
provincial squash.

Lafontaine also made the

singles where he met Fred

Sicrecki of Kitimat.

In what tumed out to be the
match of the tournament,
‘Lafontaine fought back from a
6-2 first set drubbing to take
the next 7-5: :

- That set up the decider which
Sierecki managed to squeeze

- 6-4 for the victory. ,

“Tn. consolation “wnder-18
matches, Bul dispatched Eric
Hernes 6-3, 6-2. in singles

while the doubles saw Matt
Phillips, partnered by Kelly
Gingles, assert bis aulhorily
aver younger .brother Patrick,
partnered by Stephen Fleming,
6-0, 6-0.
Describing Terrace’s first |

circuit toumey as a great suc-

cess, Holkesiad acknowledged _
_the support received from local

business and individuals.
‘Mother Nature also gota pat
on the back for providing the

: sunshine.

From here, the circuit was set

. to move on to Prince George

and then Kamloops,

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Final summer gala

Nearly undefeated in the north-
west, the Texrace Northmen ven-
tured forth undaunted to play
against some serious competition
from the Lower Mainland and the
interior.

The rugby team travelled to the
William’s Lake Stampede tourna-
ment July 4-5 for their last games
of the summer.

In their first tournament game

against the Abbotsford Football

Rugby Club the Northmen fought
hard to a 10-10. tie at the end of
regulation time,

The teams played two periods
of five minute sudden-death over-
time to determine the winner,

“The Northmen had the first
kick off,” said Dave Hull,
Northinen spokesman. ‘‘We got
the ball to Willie McCleary for a
drop-kick, Willic missed it from
35 yards out?

But McCleary came back for a
45-yard drop-kick, giving Terrace

the three points they needed for

the win, ;

“The. Northmen’ § next’ game was.
against the SFU Clansmen ‘--
complete with ‘‘horrible screechy
bagpipes”’ according to Hull.

Still on.a wild high from their
win °. over Abbotsford,
Northmen beat SFU 19-8,

Terrace entered the winning
side of the championship round
Sunday morning to lose against
their old nemesis, Langley, 20-4,
Brent Rogers scored the only try
for Terrace,

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That left Terrace to play the
combined Prince George team of
the Guats and the Barbarians to
determine third and fourth place.

The Northmen came out the
wrong end of a squeaker 20-17
game to take fourth in the tourna-
ment,

The Northmen have the rest of
the summer off, and won't play
again till the annual Gobbier

Thanksgiving tournament in’ Ab-.

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‘For those foliowing the course
of the Ducklings -- the three

Skeena Valley

OVERALL LOW GROSS
Kathy Horcoff - 172

OVERALL LOW NET
Leona Wilcox - 133 ,

CHAM PION SHIP FLIGHT
~ 1)-Laina Bitnér 273, isi

2) Bibbi Dozzi'"173= 1

3) Vern Zavaduk - 187

Low Net:
1) Heather Gallager - 143
2) Lana Long - 150 ‘
3) Jane Wall - 152:

FIRST FLIGHT
Gross

1) Selma Stranding - 190 —
2) Irene Skolos - 194

3) Marion Broome’- 197 |
4) Gail Johnson - 199

transported New Zealanders
who’ve been playing for. the
Northmen this summer -- they
left the team after the Williams
Lake tournament for a tour of
Jasper, Banff, Regina and New
York.

According to Hull, the Kiwis
plan to jog naked through Central
Park and go for-a bike ride
through Harlem singing, ‘‘This
land is my land.”’

If they survive the trip the New
Zealanders will be. back in Ter-
race in early August.

Ladies Open
Net

1) Linda Hamilton - 140

2) J.D. Amey - 141

3) Judy Lloyd Jones - 142
4) Susan Little - 146

SECOND FLIGHT
Gross
1) Gail Shinde - 203 :
#2) Brenda Dejong- 206... 4
43) Joy Stevenson - 209 a
~ Net 28
HI Doreen Jack= 143 -.
2). Sharon Zenuk -'146""
3) Anne Pruner - 146.

EXTENDED FLIGHT
Gross

1) Lyn Apolezer - 228

2) Rhonda Fedderson --242
Net

1) Edith Gieselman - 153»
2) Surinder Dhami - 161 -

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