’ The last decade has: brought us some. new shibboleths —- buzzwords if you will. Green, sustainable, —. recyclable, biodegradable and the .lamen- table. term’ environmentally friendly.: . The environment | everybody’ 8 lips. Everyone from’ George “:Bush’ to: Bill | Varider.Zalm ‘to. the: ‘foppish kids with ‘green mohawks would like.us.to believe in their sincere conimitment to things j Breen and 7 Ratural. have ‘called’ themselves “en- vironmentalists, but in thought anid deed they were, green, ine deed. ., Recently. | have been wonder- ‘the answer has to do with -vision and. evolution, By way of explanation letn me explain what guys win it-all TERRACE — A Terrace all- star: men’s hockey team battled through: he:back doar to win a tournament in Prince Rupert two weekends ago. ‘The: °Skeena Hotel Orafigenien lost their first game . in-the: Prince Rupert Commer- cialAll-Star Tournament — ig 7-6 to: Rupert ‘A’ — but ‘stormed, back: with four straight victories’ 4o Win the tourney. : They started out by hammer- ~tng-Prince:Rupert“B’- IL-5 ¢. Orangemen took on Burns’ Lake, and played to a 6-6 tie. . The. game went to a shootout and it was Terrace’s - Brad Owen coming up with the big Boal To‘secure the win. The Terrace team then dispat- ‘ched Kitimat 3-1 to advance to ‘the ‘final against Rupert ‘A’: This. time it was. the Orangemen’s turn, edging the ~ Rupertites 3-2, ”, Bob Dempster got Terrace on the doard'in the first and Troy .. Farkyam’ gave the team a brief “2d ‘lead in the second. It would be vMarlo ;DesJardins who “would: ‘break, the” 2-2. tie “and "Score: the. -winner’— unassisted —:“at’.19:28 of the sécond period. - Terrace goalie Dave Scott was named ‘player of the game for his..performance in’ the final. The tourney MVP was Skeena ‘Hotel. goal’ -machine Troy - Farkvam..: Mario DesJardins - WAS ‘the tournament's top scorer ..and. was also named best for- ward: Best defenceman honours : “went : to Terrace’s Howie O'Brien... 7. It was.a good defensive bat- ate paid. team spokesman Rit- allett, “We won with ‘ lefence and tight checking not’ ‘to. mention some big : ‘goals. from Mario and Troy,”’ The Orangemen brought Ss ‘home $1,000 for first place. ‘angling i is by explaining what it . is” ‘on: ost of the anglers I know arid';have :. known’ were’. en- ue entalists’ long’ before’ tt’ was fashionable. They may not ing why this isso. At thispointl is not. Angling is not simply cal- ching fish, which is “why you won't, find an angler sitting beside a pay-and-play pond dapping’ worms for. hatched-out _ trout. To an angler competition i is anathema. This is why the men who pitch plugs for bass in tour-- naments dedicated to that pur- suit or those who drag dodgers in derbies are’ fi shermen not anglers, - . Initially, it’s the magic of the sport that swallows the angler and leads *-to° “his incurable, lifelong addiction to jt: He soon tires of the superficial thrills, though, and begins to notice thé. ‘intricate relationships. between his prey and the things his prey preys upon. .. At-this point the angler ‘starts to: ‘understand .some: “of: the; rhythms and cycles. that, spin around: us all and encompass "The Skeena S Angler | by Rob Brown the thirig “called: angling. As he evolves, the angler starts to ap- preciate the small things in the ecosystems where he finds his sport; things like the difference - between a mayfly dun and a ‘Spinner, Or the shimmer of a young pink salmon and the sub- tle orange cast of a coho. By focussing. on the smallest events, he begins to. appreciate: the connexions: between. all he, paradoxically, comes to a greater. understanding of larger landscapés, “6. Because angling. includés > reading, studying, tackle craft, the athletic skills related ta per- formance, the preparations: for the trip to the river, the Grip itselfs . because it requires wading, . ‘watching, contempla- tion; "because it has been: around . since the beginning of recordéd time; because it has a literature ! dating back to medieval times; because of all of those things ‘angling transcends the meaning oF: the: ‘term sport and becomes natural things, and in.so doing *- an art — an art with a distinctly spiritual side. “An ‘angler sees. a fish : as mich . More ‘than a pound or two of flesh, Prey owes a debt. to "' debt to prey — - Mected and indebted to each predator and predator « owes & they are con- other. The angler knows this relationship, understands it.and knows. the same relationship and obligations exist between him and his quarry. This is why anglers. make fine distinctions between..the: condition of the ‘fish they catch and why they knew long before scientific con- firmation that there were-subtle differences. between the behaviour of fish from different rivers or lakes. - : Given this, is it any wonder that angling acquires such ar- dent devotees? Is it any wonder that | the: angler develops an acute sensitivity to changes bold and subtle j in the landscape sur- rounding. his. angling environ- Inent? - Is-:it. surprising that anglers in Skeena and elsewhere can, bé found'on the vanguard of the environmental move- ment. — To an angler quality angling is’ defined - in wilderness: the closer an aquatic ; ecosystem is to, its pristine state - — the wilder the wilderness and - the wilder the fish — the. better the quality of the experience, Variety is Nature's prescrip- : -tion for health, Variety’ is biodiversity, | Biodiversity is a! guarantor of healthy wild stocks. "The angler realizes. that the: kind of market fishing. that goes . on at the mouth of the. ‘Skeena each year works’ against biodiversity, and he realizes that: hatchery production -has. made the problem worse,. and. that solving the problem with more hatcheries will perpetuate the cycle of overharyest. The angler realizes that hatcheries, because they play fast and loose with the gene pool, threaten the very soul of angling: they threaten to tah the wildness from the ish TAKING THE PLU NGE: A swimmer heads for splashdown at the start of the 50- metre freestyle event at - the Terrace Bluebacks invitational meet. Swimmers from Kitimat and Prince Rupert came here for the competition at the Terrace Aquatic Centre. Bluebacks set numerous pool records and won the meet on overall team points, id his Terrace rink pulled out ‘¢luitch.7-6 win in-11 ends to a: t* ‘fellow Terrace: curler John “Heighington in” the Terrace Cash Spiel final Nov. 10. hs first prize, Ietory. !: pa ritice Rupert ated To Jpdzentis took the $1,600 . while: Heighinigton picked up $1,100. 7 ~ And it wasn’t an easy road to for fourth. - be another rink edi with _ ends to beat Palmer, of Smithers, by an 8-7 score to ad. vance to. the’ _Hinat.. "against Heighington.: ., ioe oo Third place went ta Kitimat’s Friesen rink, beating Palmer, oft B Smithets, ‘for’ ‘first .place- and $900. -Paliner ‘picked up $700 On the consolation side, it was Terrace's Larry Burke: br. inging home’ $400 for their vic- tory over’: Tertace's Ron Couns who. claimed $180, udzentis tops cash bonspiel | * TERRACE - — Gordie Judzentis