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‘TERRACE — The Nisga’a
 Tribat Council has asked
~ federal fisheries minister Tom
... © Siddon to bargain with the
United States for fish stocks it

says it needs to > settle its land
claim.. : oe

che! request was. made after
the: Nisga’a. said there weren’t
enough sockeye returning to the
Nass River to meet its commer-
cial, food and other needs,
bs _Management and control of
the Nass fishery is one of several
areas under negotiation between
the federal government and the
Nisga’ @ to settle the latter's land
claim. centered in the Nass
Valley. as
The Nisga'a made the request
after. learning in December that
38° per-cent of the 1989 Nass
“2 SOckeye run was caught by
“os Americans,
“Although the Nisga’a have
ois been negotiating a fisheries set-
©-tlement’ for some years and
«knew the American catch rate
=<: Was high, the figure came as a
Surprise, said tribal council
«(president Alvin McKay,
- Its certainly double, if not
>) triple of what we first thought.
“At this rate, the river will be
dried up for sockeye,’’ said
McKay,
“Canada has an international
‘(salmon) treaty with the United
States but for some reason
”there’s more attention made to

- the southern portion. But up
North it seems there is no focus
2 on it — no attempt to keep it in
ae balance,” he said,

,. “Figures for last year’s catch
... indicate the American fishery
“> took 344,000 Nass sockeye and

Canadian fishermen 144,000

‘once the fish passed into Cana-
“dian waters. That left less than
:14,000 sockeye available at the
mouth of the Nass once calcula-
-tions were done to leave suffi-

: cient fish to spawn and
“Ss. -Feplenish the run,
i Federal land claims

Fes Jegotiator Fred Walchii called
the issiie“coniplex as it involved
“not only ‘a settlement of the

me ‘Nisga’a claim but. considera...

‘tions involving the entire nor-
_ thern fishery.
- “We've looked at everything,
“The ‘difficulty is to change the
. whole (fishery) management

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The American catch is a com-
Plicating Factor as it occurs out-
Side of Canadian jurisdiction,
Walchli added.

He said some trade-offs are
being contemplated by the

federal government as part of .

the negotiations. Nisga'a
fishermen, for instance, also
fish the Skeena runs,

Federal fisheries regional
director general Pat Chamut
called the Nisga’a problem one
of several involved in deciding
who should take what fish and
how much should be caught.

The long standing position of
Canada is that American
fishermen are taking too much
fish returning to Canadian
Fivers, he said.

The Nass fish caught by
American boats are mixed with
those from other rivers, making
it impossible to separate or
allocate catches for Canadian
and American fishermen, he
said,

A salmon treaty signed bet-

‘ween the United States and
Canada in the last decade
doesn't set out catch limits, say-
ing only that the fishery should

“benefit bath countries, Chamut

added.

. Land claims negotiations bet-
ween the Nisga'a and the
federal government are schedul-
ed to resume next week in Ter-
race. Itll be the third session
since the fall,

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