flats — TTL SL eerie ge Anglers ousted TERRACE — Copper River one of the most popularfishing spots on the Skeena — is now off-limits to anglers since local. natives - blocked off the access road last Friday. But Kitselas band chief Mel Bevan says the blockade has nothing to do with land claims — it’s a simple matter of private property. “People think we're playing | politics, but this is purely a private property issue,’* he said. Both sides of the river are -§ Kitselas band reserve land, Bevan said, but that doesn’t stop fishermen or partiers. ‘We've put up signs before," he said, ‘‘and last year we put up a gate — somebody drove a four-by-four right through it."* Unrestricted access has meant partiers. go there, and some locals use the area as a dragstrip, he said. Several burnt-out car shells now litter the flats, along with other gar- bage, Bevan said the environment - ministry has told the band to clean it up or the Kitselas will be — ‘billed for cleanup. r ~ “People don’t recognize it as private property — they just “want tofish there,’? Bevan said, _ ‘At first we didn’t mind, but in the last couple of years it's “become a real problem.’’ x ‘Bevan ‘also, said the. ‘band is working | ‘on: plans to itiake the -site into a band-operated sport- .fishing lodge and campground. Terraca Standard, Wednesday, July 18, 19980 — Page Ag TERRACE — Unless there is a marked increase in the number of stecthead returning to the Skeena River, the Fish and Wildlife branch will have no choice but to impose catch and release~restrictions again this year says its head biologist. ’ Bob Hooton delivered that _ warning following release of the first week's results from the Tyee test fishery and reported incidental catch by the commer- cial fishery. Those figures show an July 7 — the lowest number for 10 years and less than half Jast year’s total of 218, That com- same date in 1985, While cautioning it was “very early to be drawing any sweep- ing conclusions,”’ Hooton said the fishery might be facing a repeat of 1983’s poor returns. That year, what is known as the El Nino effect raised water temperatures in the north Pacific. ‘‘The information that's coming through in the case Of the water temperatures is that they're higher than in TERRACE — Council believes it may have come up with a way to establish customs services at the Terrace-Kitimat airport despite federal refusal to‘ assign an officer for the job. Mayor Jack Talstra said the city might look into having customs duties handled by the commissionaires corps. It’s made up of former RCMP of- ficers and armed forces members and already provides security at the airport. He also suggested the local RCMP detachment could designate officers to provide customs services. The ideas arose following a onstructive art THE GREAT. PAINT; UP saw the wooden, sidewalk structure adjoining the construction work at Kalum Street evolve from drab, dusty wood into a brightly coloured mural. With paint brushes in hand local youths being assisted by the Reconnect program and other community service organizations pitched in and splashed on the colour. Paint was supplied by local businesses. where they discussed the situa- tion with federal revenue of- ficials, estimated 98 steethead entered . the Skeena in the week ending’ pares to more than 2,600 to the gaq trip Talstra and alderman Dan--- ny Sheridan .made to- Ottawa °: Steelhead run in hot water | 1983, ”? he said. Explaining . salmon :. avoided “warmer water, Hooton said ‘the. sockeye run -- early) ‘Skeena pt returns for that specie are‘also. ..” lower than expected .— had | altered its migration route and as a. result was moving into. coastal waters further north than was normal, And. that . brought it straight into the nets~ - of the Alaskan commercial fishery. “The Alaskans are beating - them up pretty good right now,”” he said, adding Fish and’ Wildlifé was trying to find out whether they were catching steelhead as well. ‘We're pur- suing a couple of leads,” he ad- Pointing out early steelhead return figures for 1983 had been only slightly higher than this year’s, Hooton said it had prov- ed to be “‘a poor year all the way round’? for summer run steelhead. If the pattern was. repeated this season, the branch would have to step in to protect the fish, “‘Conservation is para- mount,’” Hooton emphasized.: Corps may offer customs answer The nearest customs officer now is stationed in Kitimat and any aircraft passengers seeking clearing must wait for that/per- son to travel to the airport. _ While the Kitimat workload prevents that officer from easily making trips to the airport, Talstra said federal officials told him there is not enough business at the airport to justify hiring another person. Federal officials had - repeated earlier claims the amount of foreign traffic using the airport was not enough to justify establishing a customs office there. 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