Fish fee debate heats up TERRACE — Charging non- residents an extra $10 or $20 a day to. fish many local rivers is driving some tourist anglers away, says a local guide. However, not everybody agrees” that’s necessarily a bad thing.” . Introduced last year, the re- quirement for out-of-province © anglers to buy additional licences for ‘rivers . designated as“special waters’? was the sub- - ject of renewed debate at a re- cent fish and wildlife -branch public meeting held here. | Local guide and tackle shop owner Gord Judzentis main-~ tained: the policy was causing potential visitors to go elsewhere. That, he said, was' particularly true in the, case of: those who had been in the habit of spending two or three mon-- ths in the Terrace area. ~ Faced with at $10-a-day premium on many local rivers — the Skeena, Kalum;, Copper and. Lakelse, for example — they were now. choosing to spend their time, and money, elsewhere, Judzen- tis said. The system also - meant rubber-tire ‘tourists needed an additional licence even if all the least a - tributed " economy. “visitor wanted to do was ; pull over and catch supper, he add- ed. However, local resident Tom .Protheroe said what. they were trying to catch was. not the point. “They’ re still taking up ‘a space on. the river, "he. said, ad- ding that on rivers: ‘where there was a. lot. of fishing: pressure, tourists should still have i 10 pay. Bob Hooton, head: ‘biclogist with the regional. fish and wildlifé branch, pointed out that concerns about .over- crowding on focal rivers had been one of the factors leading to the introduction of the new system. » One of the objectives is to reduce the numbers of long- term, non-resident, non-guided - anglers on certain rivers inthe ‘Skeena watershed, he said, . Because those anglers cane . . up in their campers and were fairly ‘‘self-contained’’, Hooton suggested they con- little to the local Protheroe agreed, saying local recreational anglers were “big buck spenders” by putting in more’ money pursuing their City has extra $55,000 in kitty TERRACE — The city now has an extra $55,000 floating around in its 1991 budget following a federal government decision to grant a one-year ex- tension to the cost sharing agreement on policing. - Under the old 10-year agree- ment which expired March 31, the city paid 70 per cent of policing costs, Ottawa had said a new deal would see that rise to 85 per cent, a figure it maintain- ed was non-negotiable, With that in mind, the city set aside $1.33 million in this year’s budget to cover the cost. of the RCMP contract. $194,000 more than last year and included a $55,000 hedge WILL PICK US UP y Tanks © FOR LETTING L ME STAY THE, Thal--was: - against having to pay a greater share of policing costs. Although . Oltawa's latest decision gives the city extra dollars to play with, alderman and finance committee chair- man Danny Sheridan says there are. no immediate plans to reassign the money, “There will quite likely be discussions on what to do with it,”’ he said. That could include individual aldermen asking for reconsideration of projects which were cut during the budgel process. ‘ Or a decision could be put on hold until council carries out its - annual budget review in Oc- tober, Sheridan added. DESIGNATED Jaa Bm ORIVER. AUSTRALIA Sydney the horizon. BEACHES fashionable attraclive suburbs. PASSPORTS nity into Australia. _ CREDIT CARDS small retail shops. : . ' CURRENCY 510, $5 denominations. When the first convicl settlers sailed into the harbour on January 26, 1788, Sydney wasn't even there — they had ta build it. 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