thousand gillnet, and seine boats
plying. the.-migratory corridor
for Skeena salmonids as I write
this..." Seaentron

Skeena: another fishing season
for an unwieldy ‘net fishery ‘in
Area Four. with the result that
summier-run steelhead, coho, as
well as. some ‘runs... of . wild
sockeye will be a year closer ex-
tinction. i
Well -not quite business as
usual, All impacts considered,

this is probably the largest:com- -

merclal fishery. for Skeena fish
Over

. This. ig - a. grave situation..

’ Anybody witha genuine con-
cern for the héalth of Skeena
salmon stocks should be think-
ing about ways to limit this kind
of pressure: The collapse of the
fishery ~ the kind of debacte
we've already been witness ta
on the east coast and on river

CE — The Terrace
‘Peaks Gymnastics Club ‘is
almost. ready to move into.i
jew BYM pata oe Sea

A little paint and some wiring:

_ is all that.stands ,between the |

club and ‘its’ first full-fledged
gym.in town.» - mo " :
* The building ~« ‘attached to
the Thornhill‘ Community Cen-
tre — is up and the club hopes it
will be ready by the time its slate
_ Of programs -starts in: early
September, vo
Until now the young gym-
nests had been practising on
school gym floors. :
Erika Neves said the club is
Still looking for another $20,000
portion of its approved GO
- B.C, lottery. "grant,’ but the
; Money hasn’t arrived yet, a
_ She said the planned’ opening
— already set back three weeks
from the original opening date
of Aug. 1 — could end up being
delayed past the start of: the
season if the grant money
doesn’t arrive soon,” .
“We're really. counting on
that right now,” Neves said,
She said the club has planned
‘several programs to start in
September: the:red/white/blue
‘badge program, recreational
" program, . Moms - and Tots, a
pre-school “program for three-
. tO five-year-olds, a-midget rec
‘A’ program for up-and-coming
competitors, and~ the com- -
: i a rogram, . ‘ we

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ultimately- contrary
everybody's best interests, _
Paddy Greene,“CEO of. ‘the

to

ne ee Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-
Business: as usual “in and’ ~ op
around ” the». mouth. “of” the

~ Op, has -larger conderns
+: ger fish to. fry. ‘According to a
“recent Prince “Rupert Daily

_News story, Paddy and ‘his: .

' cohort Greg Taylor are “shock-
- ed and greatly disturbed”? by the

Gecision of the Department of -

Fisheries and Oceans to conduct.
a trial fishery for pinks and
sockeye on the Skéena River, .
: “It’s absolutely outrageous,’*
whines Paddy.
gratuitous ‘reallocation of -fish
_ away from the commercial sec-
tor,"’ Then he goes on‘to stress

that -such’.a- fishery “will: keep -

Valuable ‘net species out of the’
‘Nets of the commercial fleet, ~.
» )When-he stops, huffing and
“puffing, Mr,’ Greene will have
“to show us where it is written
that the resource belongs to the
commercial. fishermen, The

er ser aan

after river-in’ Europe — i

— big- .

‘ aboriginal

The Skeena
Angier
by Rob Brown

mandate of the’ federal fisheries
department — reaffirmed in the

‘Sparrow decision of the
Supreme Court — Says conser-
‘It's a”

vation of the stécks is para-

mount and ‘the needs of
peoples is second,

followed by those of sportsmen

and commercial fishermen.

- After reflecting on this, Mr.

_ Greene should then consider the.
“kind of impact the sportfisher-

man, with ‘his puny rod. and-
reel, is going to have on pinks
and sockeye considering the lat-
ter “are all but impossible to

SPORTS.

the ri
| sockeye: du
run, they'd be hard. pressed to .
catch a§-thany as one gilinetter |

catch and the former are the
most abundant species swimm-
ing up the:river, . oo

. In-reality, if all the sportsmen

in. the: Skeena drainage spent -

every waking moment pounding
rthe highly: prized

ting the peak of the

gets-in one good set. If Paddy
Greene thinks this is nat so, he
should take up rod and reel and
try to angle them himself.

’ And it is not just the honest
angler who worries Mr, Greene:

eae

“There are‘a lot’of meat hunters
out there who-are going to jig il-
legally for sockeve,"" says one
who, during his career aboard a
fishing boat, has:been known to
hunt.a‘fair bit of meat:himself,

I try ‘hard ‘to’-find ‘sense and
meaning “in: this. comment
without® success..-Does Mr.

' Greene imagine theré are bands -
_ of -Marauding... shaggers who

have’ been waiting. for a
regulatory: change by the DFO
‘as a'signal to skulk on ‘down to
the river and drag'treble hooks
‘Over “the. backs* -of silvery

robbers,’ are ‘impervious to
regulations, - wot

_. Greg: Taylor, of the North ;
Coast. Advisory... Board, ap.-

parently shares Paddy Greene’s
phantom concerns about the
trial fishery for pinks and
sockeye. Letting representative
sportfishermen — like this:

_ TERRACE STANDARD

i VRECKERS’ ba
Terrace Men's Slow Pitch Leagu

‘talse extra niosiey for the club's”
‘activities. ne

five games behind the league-le

Not d

adr

- lead'in that game, ‘but lost It Inthe middle innings and was unable
~.@back rally. The win but the Wrecker:

ts were hot Friday night as they continued

2 With a 6-4 win aver Westpoint Rentals. Westpoint taok the early

to cling to third'spot in:the

-

Coxford ©

sockeye?. Why would ‘they do
. that? Mr, Greene must surely -
know that Snaggers, like creek .

~~ Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 31, 1991 — Page.c1

sockeye

writer — monitor the fishery is:
“akin to letting the fox manage
the hen house,” according ‘to
Taylor, Mr.---Taylor has. the
word of. this particular fox that
overlimiting is’ anathema | to
sportfishermen throughout the
~ watershed -and will be: quickly.

reported ‘when and if it occurs.”
"Forty: years ago-a handfull of
well-meaning ; but. misguided
sportfishermen’in., the’ B.C.
‘Wildlife Federation —‘in atime
when steelhead, chinook’ and
“coho .were. abundant and few.
sportsmen. ‘considered. fishing
for pinks or ‘sockeye — sug-
gested the ‘latter might be
~ designated “commercial . fish.’*
' The commercial fishing sector
pounced on ‘the idea: and has
clung to it as if it were their bir-
If Messrs. Greene and Taylor
“are worried about the exiinction
of pinks and sockeye, let them
look in their own backyards,

a a ae

cleans up

TERRACE — Terrace swimmer

Garth Coxford blew away the -

field at the B.C, Champion-
ships, capturing five gold
medals at UBC July 19-21,

_‘‘He Jotally demolished

everybody,’’ said Terrace”

Bluebacks swim caach Shelley
Morgan. “In the events he came
first, he came first by like about
10 metres. He was awesome.”
Coxford won gold in’ the
400-metre. freestyle, ‘the

50-metre freestyle, the
100-metre freestyle, the
200-metre individual medley

and the 100-metre butterfly.

He picked up a silver in the
100-metre backstroke, a bronze
in the 50-metre breaststroke and
finished fifth in the 50-metre
butterfly. :

Aimee Peacock also com-
peted in the B.C, Youth Cham-
pionships, finishing eighth in
the 100-metre breaststroke.

It was the third major meet of
the summer for the Bluebacks.

Denise Vanderlee, 16, and
13-year-old Tori MacKenzie
also competed at the July 13-14
Senior Provincial Champion-
Ships in Victoria;.

The two had. dissappointing
performances, however,

Karate

He picked up a bronze in the
400-metre individual medley
with his time of 5:42.25, and he
was fifth in the 200-metre in-
dividual medley in a time of
2:45:04. In the 400-metre
freestyle, he had another fifth-
place time — 5:05.28,

Teammate Vince Gair swam
the 100-metre backstroke in a
time of 1:29.22, placing 21st.

Meanwhile, the swim club is
waiting for the announcement
of a new coach, oo

Current Bluebacks coach
Shelley Morgan is returning to
UEC this fall to take her fifth
year in the university's teaching
program, *

silver.

for Ling sister

_TERRACE — Kilimat's Lisa
Ling won three out of: four

several times to regain points
fights to take the silver medal in

before time ran out. -

to mount any kind of com-

within @ game and a half of second-place Westpoint and
ace. of the Terrace’ Inn's squad. a

\

- tourney

ay’ had’co:

t -Kootena
Spokane,

~ lutch win 'Was the high point of
ir them. Se

the

aed

‘have anything

Neeve was again picked :
“He was hitting really. well,

Game 1 for Terrace at the tourney:in
_). "Prince George saw them lose:to ‘Trail ~

last year’s provincial champs —. by oe

score. Mark Neeve was MVP in that gaine.
‘Their third game was
_ Island, and they again lost 9-83.09)"
' . We didn’t have any Steam® left
mB didn’t have any pitching le a

again

left,”? Fick:

dy lost. her bid for:

IL Was". close,” gh
we
idn't

as Tefrace MVP, 7

., Sane’ fighting style:
I
Fick ‘added,

* point, “and ‘it. sé

‘women's: sparring at the Pan-
American Karate Champion-
ships June 28-30. wot,

‘ **1 was really hungry for it,"
she said. “I've been training

teally hard, Lalsohadtogaona _

diet and lose about six pounds
to make lightweight division. So
I was hungry — both mentally :
and physically, 0°
~The 20-year-old Ling narrow-
Pan-Am
gold ‘medal. in Aumise. at, the
tournament to. competitor
from Curacao. ee
dof

the gold-medal round: -match;-
“Both of us had ‘sort of the |
She would

Ould get a-
wed back

get a point’ and Ww

“My coaches and teammates
really spurred me on,’’ she said,
“But myself, | knew that I had
come all the way down there
and I didn’t come down there to!
lose.” ah :

“In karate, you-have to have
“the technique and the ability —:

but a lot of it isin your mind
too. You really have to want to

.

win,” - eee mee
| athe Canadian team! brought.
back two silver and five bronze
medals. et eee
“I was dissappointed that the
anthem wouldn't play. for
Canada, because it only’ plays
for. the ‘gold ‘medal winners,"
Ling said..“"But- next. time it
will.” a er
Ling credits her instructor,

¢ one-win, two-loss record didn’t give and forth: David Akutugawa, and: het
ce.a spot in the'final: aga Ling. was beaten" 6-3, losing . family: for their support, Her
‘Victory dy - critical polntswhe ie mls." next tournament is the Cana:

dian nationals in Richmond ‘in.

mid-October. Ling starts law
» School at the University.of BC! -

in September

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