A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 24, 2000 Society. WORK HAS begun to renovate and expand the existing Sikh temple on Walsh Ave., almost across the street from the Saivation Army church. An- thony Pavao, left, and Ben Hovenkamp from Beaudin Construction are working on the foundations for the new building. Temple to expand on Walsh Ave. site THE SKEENA Gursikh Society is ready to launch a $250,000 renovation on ils Walsh Avenue temple. The expansion of the old temple wilt began May 10 and will take ap- proximately four months to complete. “When we bought the [old] temple, we had it in our minds that we were going to expand,” said Sulakham Hun- dial, member of the Skeena Gursikh agement, expansion. The society oversees temple man- The new temple will be used for prayer and the old temple will be reno- vated to include kitchen facilities. “The old building didn't have a kit- chen, and following Sikh tradition, it should,” said Hundial. . 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It was one of three meet- ings held in Alaska, Terrace and Bella Coola whose re- sults will help form future fisheries policies on the tra- ditional native fishery. Oolichan, a small sardi- ne-like fish, is valued by First Nations fisheries for its grease, has trade, medici- nal and food values. Because the fishery doesn’t have larger com- mercial value, it isn’t H- censed and the fisheries ministry doesn’t assess ooli- chan stocks the same way it LEVOLOR Cellular & Pleated Shades PV.C. & Fabric Verticals SALE ENDS MAY 31, 2000 Z Your Decor Terrace Carpet Centre Ltd. 3202 Munroe Street at Hwy 161, Terrace Ph: 635-2976 ¢ 1-800-665-1657 would sockeye or coho. Instead, fisheries man- agers use First Nations anecdotal evidence and in- dustry environmental im- pact studies to track the health of the fishery, leav- ing managers unable to track relative stocks from yeartoyear gs “To complicate ‘matters, colichan runs are cyclical and easily influenced by flooding and natural pres- sures, $0 managers are less likely to panic during lower runs. “We need a solidarity of information,” said Doug Hay, a herring and oolichan scientist at the federal fish- eries research centre in Na- naimo. Based on this year’s runs on the Skeena, Kitimat, and Nass Rivers, as well as those throughout the Alaska to California range, scient- ists know the stocks are in bad shape, but not why. “We don’t know the ex- planation for the decline of oolichan,” Hay said. “The concer is heightened this year because there are very much lower runs in many more rivers.” line theories is that logging and log boom operations near streams and spawning grounds has destroyed sen- sitive spawning grounds. from major industries on the the Kitimat River, active ocean-going shrimp trollers ~vand'~clitnatéchange that * may have moved predators such as sardines and hake north, oolichan prefer cold glacial- fed rivers and sometimes tun underneath frozen ti- vers, making it almost im- possible to determine stock assessments. year in the Nass River, where oolichan runs once seemed untouchable, said Hay. as estimated by local obser- vers, dropped from 296 tons in 1998 to 237 tons in 1999 and 168 tons this spring, a level not touched since a nearly disastrous 1997 run. 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