AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 2, 1997

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Reverse fishing fee hikes

An open letter to Cathy McGregor,
Minéster of Environment, Lands &
Parks

Dear Ms. McGregor:

The Terrace & District Chamber of
Commerce is concerned about - the
recently announced increase in licens-
ing fces for non-residents to fish in
“classified waters’’. ene

We understand that the exorbitant
fee increases, which are scheduled to
become effective April 1, 1997, were
established without consulting :the
recreational fishing industry, We also
understand that the affected - parties
were not made aware of the increases
until mid-March of this year.

We appreciate your ministry’s con-
cems about overcrowding in the clas-
sified waters and the need for some
action to preserve the quality of the
angling experience. While we can
even support modest fee increases to
address the problem, we object to the
level of the fee increases, the lack of
consultation and the manner in which

Beyer was

Dear Sir:

This letter is in response to the
recent Hubert Beyer column about a
helicopter logger from the Cranbrook
area, apparently being thwarted from
access to salvage timber duc to
“excessive red tape’’.

Unfortunately the article has some
significant flaws in it and these should
be pointed out to your readers.

The Forest Practices Code brought
into British Columbia a certain set of
principles for the management of our
forests. Certain operational plans,
necessary for prescribing standards on
the harvesting and reforesting of
forest land, were made mandatory and
enshrined in law. °

In the example (Matthew Creek)
mentioned by Hubert Beyer, areas set
out for harvesting have boundaries es-
tablished which dictate where timber
may be harvested.

Any transgression of these bound-
aries, along ihe same principle as
someone trespassing onto someone

the fee increases are being introduced.

The guiding community, for exam-
ple, commits to reservations up to a
year in advance. It will have toe absorb
these increases or risk losing its reser-
vations as the foreign fishers go else-
where to avoid the high costs. Many
stand to Jose substantial sums of

- money-as-a -result!. We are aware of.

one lodge whose angling guide license
fees are increasing from $1,127 to
$12,637, an incredible 1,121 per cent.

And the non-guided fishers will not
fare much beiter! The angling fee for
‘‘classified’? waters increasing from
$10 to $40, some 400 per cent. That is
ontop of the $60 cost of a B.C. fish-
ing license.

There are 42 classificd waters in the
province, 28 of which are in the Ter-
race and Smithers areas. A non-
resident. couple would spend up to
$1,359 for two weeks fishing on the
local Skeena river. That same couple
would spend only $161 to enjoy a
similar fishing experience in an un-

classified water such as the Kitimat
river. Guess where they'll go if they
fish in this area! Worse still, we could
Jose their precious dollars to Alaska.

Which brings us to the next equally
important point, The higher fces will
also have a Significant negative im-
pact on local tourism revenues. Those
same tourists, who spend an average
$1,000 in the community, will take
their spending cash with them when
they go elsewhere to fish. This will
have a devastating affect on our com-
munity, which is already beset with
problems related to forestry. ;

We implore you to reconsider the
planned increase in angling and guid-
ing fees, to consult with representa-
tives of the recreational fishing indus-
try regarding required changes, and to
introduce those changes in 4 manner
that fosters and protects the industry,
not destroys it!

Skip Bates, President
Terrace & District
Chamber of Commerce

off base on salvage

else’s private property, is considered
unauthorised harvesting and dealt
with accordingly.

Also mentioned in the article was
the shutdown of operations for en-

While it may have the ap-
pearance of | being
bureaucratic, imagine the pub-
lic outcry if such work wasn’t
undertaken and some form of
catastrophe occurred as a
result.

vironmental reasons. Matthew Creek
is a communily watershed, The Forest
Practices Code, in recognition of the
high water quality standards that ail
British Columbians desire, has sig-
nificant protective measures for com-
munily watersheds. These measures
include the legal requirement to assess

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the stability of the terrain prior to har-
vesting. From the assessment, pro-
tective requirements are built into har-
vesting and silviculture prescriptions.

While it may have the appearance of
being bureaucratic, imagine the public
outery if such work wasn’t undertaken
and some form of catastrophe oc-
curred as a result.

While the need to recover salvage-
able timber is always a priority, there
are other considerations that Hubert
Beyer failed to point out. There exists
the requirement for some recognition
of the biodiversity requirements that
the Forest Practices Code has em-
braced.

Salvage timber also has value in the
form of snags and coarse woody
debris for wildlife. Snags are favourite
haunts for cavity nesting birds like
woodpeckers and blucbirds, important
components of our forests.

Janna Kumi, RPF
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ministry of Forests

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Industry made own bed,
forests minister says

By MALCOLM BAXTER
’ FOREST MINISTER
Dave Zimbelt rejects ab-
solutely that government
policies are the cause of
northwest forest industry
woes.
Reacting to the suggestion’
increased 9 stumpage rates
and the cost of following the
Forest Practices Code had

‘made’ logging © uncconomic

here, Zimbhelt exploded:

“That’s a bull shit argu-
ment,”

Maintaining the problems
were caused by poor man-
agement, he charged that
unless companies were al-
jawed to ‘‘absolutely rip
and tear (the forests)...it
wouldu’t solve the problems
of industry in the north-
west.”

While he appreciated the

region, Zirnhelt pointed out
he recalled logging outfits in
the Stewart area going broke
five years ago — before
stumpage rates were hiked
and the Code introduced,

As for Repap’s financial
woes, he said, “You can’t
tell me industry didn’t make
money (in past years).””

Zirnhelt said it was time
for the companies, com-
munities and workers to
“step up to the table’’ with
Forest Renewal BC projects
that would create jobs in the
short-term, something he
suggested they should have
been looking at already,

As for what the govern-
ment was doing to help
northwest industry weather
the financial storm, he
pointed to the bridging
financing — loans — being

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The City Beat

Bench apartments opposed

RESIDENTS on Mountainvista Drive are mobilizing to

- fight a proposal to build an apartment building in their

neighbourhood.

Several residents say they’ll be at a public hearing at 7
p.m. next Monday at city hall to oppose the rezoning.

The 1.5-acre property owned by Maggie Hodges is just
cast of Floyd Ave. on Kalum Lake Dr,

Council has already introduced bylaws to change the
property’s zoning from Ri one-family residential to RS
multi-family residential and to change the Official Com-
munity Pian designation to multi-family apartment,

Resident Samantha Plovie said neighbours are concerned
that the building there would look over the Skeena Saw-
mills mill yard.

“We're concerned il’s going to be Jow income,’ Plovie
said, adding that would affect property values. ‘‘No one
with any kind of moncy is going to want to overlook the
mill yard.’” She said they also think access to the property
could be dangerous,

Billboard revenue eyed

BILLBOARDS on the sides of city garbage trucks or
snow plows?

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council to consider some kind of advertising billboard pro-
ject to bring in extra revenue.

He’s asked council to think about the idea at its upcom-
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“7 don’t think you'll see the sides of our city works
trucks carrying corporate logos, but i think there’s ap-
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Kathleen Duffy, Robert Hewitt, and Ryan Orr for
achieving a Standard Ministerial Score Total of more
than 1,700 in their three best Scholarship
Examinations, based on the results of the January
1997 Provincial Examinations. All three will qualify
for $1,000 Provincial Scholarships valued at $1,000
each provided that they fulfill graduation require-
menis. Thirty-two other students had forty-three quali-
fying Standard Ministerial Scores of more than 475
and have a very good chance of qualifying for pro-
vincial scholarships in June 1997.

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scholarship sludents are as follows:

Kathleen Duffy: Biology 12 (SMS 703), Chemistry
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over financial responsibility
for $100 million of sil-
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work curently handled by
the Forest Service, Zirnbelt
explained it was a case of
the government “‘getting out
of things FRBC has a
mandate to do.’”

Describing FRBC as ‘‘the
logical agency’’ to co-
ordinate silviculture, he said
the Forest Service would
concentrate on the planning
end of forestry.

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silvicultural net expendi-
tures in the province would
rise this year from $315 mil-
lion to $400 million or
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million worh of  sil-
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thing that’s related to jobs.’’

The budget also included a
$152 million cut — nearly
25 per cent — in the forest
miinistry’s dudget. With
FRBC apparently going to
cover $100 million of that
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