- With Juminaties in the B.C. wildlife. "Federation declaring ‘war ‘on commercial fishermen ‘om War, they. hope ..will ; “ultimately. ead to the. banning Of: all: gillnetters on- ‘the B.C, “oast —, Des Noble , and the ‘members of : the Gillnetters’. ‘Association. in. Prince. Rupert ‘could be expected to be less than .Feceptive: to-a trio of dedicated ; ‘steelheaders. from Terrace. g° Sul, we had been offered an . invitation’ some time ago, so Webb, Hill and 1 hopin Webb's ‘Shiny: new truck that rides like a ‘Car. ‘and make for Prince : ‘Rupert. =. We oughta ‘discuss our posi- ‘tion’: before the meeting,” says Hilly. » : “Yeah, we oughta,” 1 say agresably. “We can caucus over fish and hips” adds Webb. We do that, or rather we have every intention of doing that, } ae ETE Pa Ba _: Torna Standard, Wednasiay May 1, 1991 ‘ime for sot . but conversation is ‘difficult - with our mouths full of halibut, - fries, coke and coffee. After dinner we. find the meeting room in the back of the ’ Prince. Rupert Library, and _walk in like a trio of Daniels in- ‘to.a den of lions. ‘Assembled are. 20 gillnetters. They appear human and diverse. They could easily be mistaken for a group of sport- fishermen. They look’ serious, deadly serious, We- sit. down near the door and look uncom- fortable. © Des Noble introduges himself and bids us do thesame.. “This is Doug Webb, Bruce Hill and [’m Rob: Bypwn,” - I say. ‘We're members.-of. the Steelhead Society. Our Position is that the commercial. fishery i is leading to the extirpation — the inevitable extinction — of sum- merrun steelhead. One of the gilaettert, growls, ‘The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown ‘continue to lead with my chin. “We think that traps and weirs ~ selective harvesting methods — are the way to go.’” "You're the problem!” shouts a green-jacketed fisher- man on my flank. ‘‘You sport- sinen are Killing too many fish." -. **How can we ‘when the limit on them is one or none every “year?” [ counter. * The temperature in the room begins rising rapidly. “*Hold it,’” says Bruce in an intimidating voice. ‘‘We’ve got PORTS eS See nothing against you guys. We. don’t want your jobs. But you. must know you're in trouble, - Gilinetting has caused problems | for anadromous fish all over the world. Sportfishermen, guides ‘and lodge owners are starting to get Organized, they’re not going 40. sit, by:and,avatch fish that are. ‘their’:livelinood ‘disappear. = They’ ie: setting the ears: of the Politicians. ae a “The: ‘gillnetters seem to ap- preciate Bruce’s candour, The meeting Slips. into: a more con- “structive mode. We begin EX. ploring areas of concern, ~ “What's wrong with hat- cheries? asks one of the gillnet- . ters. ‘Yeah, hatcheries are the vanswer,’* says another... | Webb’ explains. the. problems _we encountered trying to raise a few steelhead in our Deep Creek "facility, ‘Brisce ‘and . I: follow Webb’s :lead citing ‘plological problems and the baleful ex- ~-periences with hatcheries i in ‘the United States. , in What about the Babine | pro- ject?” -asks another gillnetter. . *'That’s a big success.”* -_ We point out that. the increase . _in Babine Sockeye has led to in- ., creased . fishing. pressure of :-.- them by the fleet and finally to the problems facing | us right now. . The discussion moves. from enhancement’ to seals, to gear types, to: Japanese drift nets, to the preservation of fish habitat “JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD -——— BREAKAWAY! 7. : HEADING FOR the. "hoop; Uplands Grade 7 boys basketball olayer Lee Moroko streaks in to put his team. up by two points Ina game against Centennial Christian School. In Grade 6 girls basket- ~ ~ bail action at'Uplands-Apr..13, it was Cassle Hall coming out on tép, tying Thornhill 20-20 and” “defeating Clarence. Michiel 26- 22, Jf TERRACE — The 1990-91 NHL hockey season may well .be remembered more for the “pallooning popularity of sports card trading than for anything that happened on: the ice, - When the, current craze for -collecting hockey cards first ‘started, no one’s quite surt, But. ‘the best guess among collectors ‘is about: the same time Wayne Gretzky’ was“traded- south to’ ‘Los Angeles three years ago. ' It’s. undisputed that this _ season has been.a banner year ifor cards. Players. have been ‘mobbed, by fans, wanting them ito sign cards. Retail sales have “skyrocketed. “Wayne Gretzky ‘and Kings’. boss ‘Bruce McNall “paid ’ at record: “$45%,000 for a “1910 Honus | Wagner. baseball ‘card, Ard stores ‘specializing ‘strictly inthe selling and trading ‘of sports cards are springing up pe “Really alld: subsidize what’ addictive.”’ She operates out. of her own home or rents tables at the mall. But with more than three sports card stores in Prince George now and new stores opening on a weekly basis in‘ Vancouver, - she predicts it's only a matter of time before somebody opens “one here. Most new cards ‘are sold as ' “wax packs’’. that you pay’ a ‘dollar or two for and get an assortment of several cards. She pulls a dated Ken Dryden rookie card out of the plastic, holds it up and grins. _. “— like to get hard-to-get cards,” she explains, ‘and cards of some old favourites.’’ High- up on her hit list right now is the first-season Brett, Brett was playing for four years © «before. his card came out in the *88:'89- season. ‘He's really hot right now,"" Hamer says. ‘Nobody wants to | let go of that one.” * : “Kids really rule the market — who’s hot and who’s- cold.. There are different: surveys that different magazines do to chart the ups and downs of the market. It’s supply and demand." : they determine - “They're fun because. you don’t, know. whe! you're going : to get — you could end up with an Eric Lindros card worth $15," she says. ‘And the other thing with wax packs is youdo a lot of trading | — that's the fun. of it.”" ~ “Right? how f'n going’aft favourites —. favourite _ Players,” she says, “Eventually T'd like to. complete. sets, -b ould “be: 'very.; hard. Some aim to. collect complete “t ., Sets of cards, but:nol Hame ‘Although the object of al this at ‘Interest is & piece of printed : cardboard with no real value, | prices of sports cards soar and .: plummet like penny stocks on ‘the Vancouver Stock Exchange. ~~ “Kids really rule the market © saps etal scoring system had them even at ae “round,’”. — they: determine who's. hot ng . | and covers many ‘closely related : topics. At-the end of the: night : we realize that our ignorance ‘of commercial ‘fishing . jis parcial by their ignorance of steelhea steelheaders. arid the’. sport: fishing world in general: By the time we have to ‘go, the meeting is in. the » problem- solving mode, We. come away feeling we have met with a group of men threatened by economic changes-and forcés within. the industry. itself: honest, hardworking. men who make their living riding atap the waves: analyzing time and tide, We have a lot in common with them. , There-may be a. ‘solution to this. problem’ of declining:, fish. ~ stocks. If there is, we will find i it through , communication and cooperation, which , begins’. by learning about each ‘Others needs and concerns in meetings like this. Boxing the best Silver, bronze | for Terrace boys | TERRACE — Terrace’s Joey Losier won two straight fights at the Canadian Junior Na- tional boxing championships before narrowly losing a split decision in the gold medal round last week. The 14-year-old boxer pushed the defending national cham- pion — 16-year-old Stevie Watts of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island — to the wall in his silver-medal performance at the nationals in Sarnia, Ont. “That was the mast exciting fight of the championships — Joey's gold-medal fight,”’ said B.C team coach and local box- ing clu! coach Jeff ‘Dilley. ‘‘The “onthe” “Sdinpulférizel the end of the bout.” But when ‘the decision was given, the points deadlock was given to Watts. The PE] boxer was two years older than Losier and had twice as many bouts under his belt. “It was just so close,” said Dilley. ‘It was a well fought fight, but Joey came out on the short end of it.””. _ It was Losier’s third bout of .the championships, fighting in the 125-lb Junior ‘C’ division ' against eight other boxers. In his first fight, Losier won decisively, leading by twice as many points and scoring a second-round knockout to ‘eliminate Manitoba's Kelly Brown. |. . “Joey was ‘tight in n the first . Dilley said. *“His power and: hand speed j just over- whelmed this kid in the second ‘round. He stopped him just a ‘Ininute into the second round,” © In his second fight -~ a-semi- HE CARD CRAZE ‘peen.. involved in drugs or whatever. — their card just _ about falls off the markei.”” © The value of Edmonton Oiler goaltender Grant Fuhr's card, . for example, hit the toilet after ~he was suspended by the NHL tt. .for admitting to cocaine use. . ‘Hull card. St. Louis’ Golden: Now that the Oiler goalie got a “reprieve from . the league and ~-has been performing well in the Chet in the playoffs, Fuhr's ‘card, a like Ben Johnson, may get a se- ‘cond chance with the fans. : “Some, kids seem to be will-”- |: “his card is out proclaiming him “as ‘‘future superstar.” “His card in Vancouver is “gelling for $18 right now and he { 7 oh, Poa . o fe ae ’ enough to get them on a card: | ven, before they first hit NHL”. ‘ice: Bric’ Lindros hasn't: even’. [-- ‘played his first season yet, but ~ “hasn't even” made ‘the NHL | final for the right to advance to the gold-medal round — Losier built a 23-11 point spread over his opponent by the end of the regulation three rounds, Dilley said the Terrace fighter was having more difficulty penetrating the defences of the other boxer. ‘You could tell that Joey had the power over everyone. else. who, was Ahere,”? mn he explained.” But’ he’ Was'to actually beat this kid. Butit was | too late by then.’’ The other northwest boxer on the B.C, junior team — Prince Rupert’s Brian Kohnn — also. picked up a bronze medal. *. He won his first bout by a healthy decision on points, before falling to Quebec's Bob- by Boucher in the semifinal, | sigh Dilley | said the Terrace dox- — ‘ performances‘ serve notice sinexperienced: io gel those’ hard “blows through | their deferices.” ‘tHe survived more. on. natural strength and agility than on boxing experience,’’ he add- ed. ‘We're going back to the drawing board to work out a: _plan, He knows what he has to do to win their next time.” Terrace's Darren Bell cap- tured a bronze medal at the championships. He got a by in the first round before stepping into the ring for his first fight against Ontario's Nicky Farrell. Bell lost the match, but Dilley said it was a lot closer than the scoring indicated.. Bell was ‘rattled by the fact that _ Farrell: is black, Dilley noted, and that meant a psychological | struggle for the Terrace ‘boxer to get back to concentrating on his game. “The best boxers in the world © "are black -boxers,’’ Dilley said, ‘Darren let it get to him. He didn’t realize’ until the end of the second round that he could the: ‘dub will be relurning to the médal’ ium of the nationals in the years ahead. Both Losier and Bell — who were raised an age level to allow them to com- pele — still have two more years of competition ahead of them in their present age category. ‘Both the boys feel a new confidence now that they know they can compete with the best in Canada,” Dilley said.’ Bell and Losier accounted for half of the B.C. team’s four medals. . . “We by no means got blown out of the water as a team,’’ Dilley said. ‘In terms of, pro- vincial standings, we “were fourth in total medals,"* kkk Kitimat will be the centre of boxing action this weekend, where Prince Rupert's. Steve Yeager is headlining a 12- bout boxing card. ‘it’s set for 7 p.m. May 4 at Mount Elizabeth Senior Secon- dary school, ~ Sporting Goods’ f the design