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’ Nechako Northcoast °

been complaining long and loud
about. having ; to’: purchase
special licences to fish many

area ‘rivers, but some visitors: ;
can’t understand what all the

fuss is about, -
John Wilson was in ‘the nor-
thwest last month to film a seg-

ment for Go Fishing, Britain’s . |

top angling television show. The
program will be aired nationally
there next summer.

“—. can't understand what
people -are angry about,’’

Wilson said of the controversy. '

Anglers, he said, would never
respect the fishery unless they

were -given- some responsibility a

for its future.

However, he added, that also
meant all money raised through
such special licences should go
back into the resource.

Maintaining. “nothing's
free’’,
and il rivers were not exhorbi-

tant for a full day’s fishing.
But, he warned, fishermen

a

Fees for fishing don 1
pose a problem, says.

TERRACE —° Tourists ‘have.

Wilson said the fees of -
$10 and $20 per day on Class I

John Wilson
paying those fees had to get
value for their money. Wilson
pointed out he had just spent

. Five days on the Copper River to

catch just a single steelhead,
Martin Fownds, the British
travel agent who arranged.the

trip, said the cost of fi ishing

B.C. rivers paled in comparison
to that in Scotland.
Explaining most waters there

ae pee ae
Steve Nickolls

were privately owned, he said

anglers,
they came from, could expect to
pay up to $60,000 for just one
week's fishing - on a good
salmon river.-That-cost also in-
cluded a ‘stipulation of no more
: than Six anglers i in the party.

_ Alternatively; a British angler. .
could book a 10. day trip. to B. C. :

Road companies leaping |

around the northwest —

TERRACE — The process of
negotiating new. . road
maintenance contracts in ithe
northwest is becoming a + game
of leap frog. ;

It began a month ago when.

Nechako Northcoast Construc-’

tion Services found that the pro-

yvincial government didn’t want ©

to renew its contract for the
Smithers and Stewart area.

Instead, the ministry chose
Lakes District Maintenance of
Burns Lake’ as the preferred
company: with which it would
try to negotiate a new agree-
ment,

p And now the focal firm with .
North.

the Terrace. contract, .
Coast Road Maintenance, has
lost out to Nechako Northcoast.
- In both cases, price seems to
have been the determining fac-

tor is ‘the province deciding

what company it chose, -
“Tt would appear there was a
very substantial difference in

price — up to $3 million,” said.

North Coast. ‘Spokesman: Lloyd
Scott-of his* company’s ‘loss to
“in this
area.

He added that the province
generally places priceat 40 per

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cent and ability to do the work
and company track record at 60
per cent when determining what
company it prefers,

North Coast's three-year con-
tract expires Nov. 30 and has a
value of more than $12 million.

That price is expected to in-
crease for the new 28-month
contract because more roads
have been added and the pro-
vince wants more work done
during the summer, said Scott,

Nechako Northcoast officials
and those from the: highways
ministry met last week to begin
detailed talks for the new con-
tract...

_. -The. province, will, choose the:

company that comes second on .
its preferred list if negotiations

with Nechako Northcoast are %

unsuccessful,

-Nechako. Northcoast
spokesman John Ryan said it
was still too early to determine
what the final outcome might
be.

“Obviously we'll . have a
significant presence in the Ter-
race area but ali those details
will come later," he said.

Nechako Northcoast has also
placed a bid for the contract

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