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+ competence,” Hill said,
\ “Fhey just don’t care about
' these local fisheries and
‘they don’t know how to do
' their jobs.””

““We’ve never been sup-
: portive of the province tak-
‘ing over the fishery, but at
‘some point you have to
wonder how could they pos-
sibly be any worse?’’ Hill
said.

Another factor that has Jo-
cals angry is the fact that
Sport fishing lodges at
Langara Island on the north-
west tip of the Queen Char-
lotte Islands will still be al-
lowed to fish in a small zone
‘around the island when all
‘the rest of the north coast is
closed to fishing.

That’s seen as the result of
the high-powered political
lobby of the lodge owners
there,

“Fé Tm a rich man I can
ga over to Langara and

fish,’? tackle shop owner

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Brian Patrick says. “‘But to SKEENA REFORM MP Mike Scott addresses a rally -
‘protect coho that aren’teven Saturday at Fishermen's Park. It was called to press
‘there, we can’t fish for any- for a relaxation on federal plans to curtail salmon fish-

thing.”

16

Europeans heading
elsewhere next year

‘EUROPEAN TRAVEL
‘agents are taking B.C, out of
‘their fishing travel packages
in the wake of widespread
,angling closures, say local
‘fishing lodge operators,
: Steve Nickoils from
‘Komaham Lodge said last
week the Kingfisher agency
— ils main booking agency
‘and Europe’s largest retailer
‘of Sporifishing fours — has
‘indicated it will send clients
‘who would normally go to
‘B.C. to Alaska or Norway
‘instead next year.
' They've said we'll just
take Canada off our list amd:
we'll send clients to other
‘countrles,*’ . Nickolls: “Ts
just killing us.”
' Part of the’ reason «is

‘dramatic cuts" to the amount’

of available fishing time,
but the main thing that has
soured agents on Canada is
how late the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans an-
nounced the closures.”
Nickolls said Kingfisher is
incensed because it has paid
$50,000 for airline tickets
that can’t be refunded be-

: A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, daly 1, 1998

ing past July 26.

cause clients were schedul-
ed to fly in less than 30
days,

“Our agency in Germuny
is fed up with how long it
takes the Canadian govern-
ment to make a decision on
coho,’* Nickolls said,

Those 28 cancelled book-
ings were all to fly to Ter-
tace to fish with Komaham.

The family-run lodge ex-

pects to all but shut down
when angling closures take
effect July 26, resulting in
layoffs of its seven employ-
ees who would normally
work through October.

“It's a pretty grim situa-

8’ tion,” Nickolls said. Even if
™ fishing’

‘openings ’ * Sire
relaxed: into. early: ‘August
now, he said, it would be
too late for the lodges be-
cause any clients they had
for that period have by now
rebooked to other destina-
tions,

Skeena River Fishing
Lodge also got word from
its booking agent in
Germany on Friday that he’s
considering pulling out.

The closures

CATCH-AND-RELEASE steelhead fishing will be al-

lowed as usual this year.

And chinook fishing will be allowed on the Kalum River

until Aug. 6.

But those are being viewed as mere crumbs by a Terrace
sporifishery that will see chinook fishing on the mainstem
Skeena below Terrace shut down on July 26th and remain

closed until Sept. 5,

That’s expected to cut off two of the best weeks of the
summer's biggest fishery, which draws many out-of-

province anglers,

Fishing above the railway bridge at Terrace will be al-
lowed to continue until Aug, 2, when it shuts down for the

rest of the year.

In addition to steelhead flyfishing, there will be limited
flyfishing for sockeye allowed in the upper reaches of the
watershed — below the Babine River fence, and just be-
low the Pinkut and Fulton River spawning channels.

And there bus been some discussion about allowing a
pink salmon fishery on the Lakelse River, but DFO has
made no decision on that so far.

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