| Rupert fish derby draws fire

for impact on area tourism

"By SARAH ARTIS _

ORGANIZERS. OF a major
Prince Rupert. salmon fish-
ing derby are under fire for

=. ¢reating what, critics call an -
~, unsustainable event that is
. competing with local der-

bies and hogging govern-
ment money intended for the
entire region.

“My personal feelings ar are

“that we got short-changed,”

said Terrace and District .
Chamber.
president Glenn Kelly. .

of ‘Commerce

_. Called the Great North-
ern Salmon Classic, Prince

Rupert's fishing derby runs.
from Aug.’ 1 until Sept: 15.
~ It isthe largest. non-invita-

tional fishing derby in west-
ern Canada and has prizes of
up to $100,000.

The derby was made pos-

‘sible with $250,000 from the

Northern Fund Management

.. - Committee, a group orga-"
" «nized this summer to manage.

! almost half a million dollars °
“the province ‘invested in re-

gional tourism promotion.
- The committee was set

up to cover losses in tourism’
. dollars due to the Queen of

the North ferry sinking this
past spring.

=’ “Prince Rupert will ben- “
“efit,” Kelly said: “What did
. Terrace get?” ;
“And . the derby is not.

-what it should be either,” he

added. “The department: of -
fisheries. and oceans won’t -

let commercial fishers fish
for Coho and now: every
man, woman and child can
go out there and kill Coho.
That’ s crazy.” .
~ Kitimat city councillor

Joanne Monaghan has simi- .

Jar feelings.

fe “We. are “supposed to ~
. ‘be working together in the. .
northwest and that one com-

MLA cans :
— fish trip

SKEENA NDP MLA Robin”
' Austin has abandoned a plan .

to take his legislative aqua-
culture committee to Nor-

way for Aquavision 2006, .
. the aquaculture industry’s

most important international
annual convention.

Taking all 10 of the com-
mittee’s Members of the
‘Legislative Assembly and
staffers would simply cost

too much money, Austin
said last week in his capac- |

_ ity as chair of the group. _
. The committee has been

holding hearings on the .
fish farming industry, has”
commissioned an economic -
analysis of the industry and —
had been: thinking of a trip ,

overseas to see how other
countries manage fish farms

; and the like.

Airfare, accommodation,

' meals and: the like would

swamp the budget of the

committee, which is looking ~

at the aquaculture industry in
this province, Austin added
in indicating an expensive

trip of this kind would be la-

belled as a junket. -

As itis, it would cost $254
a night for a single room at a
hotel right next.to the .con-
ference location, which is in

' Stavenger, Norway:

Instead Austin ‘and his
committee will
- provincial civil servants who
are attending the conference
with — provincial
minister Pat' Bell.
. “We're already paying for
them to go so it makes sense
to speak to them when they

‘get back,” said Austin.
- The committee will also

speak to people at the Nor- © a

_Wegian convention and else-
where via teleconferencing,

’ ause of technology Austin

said is efficient and afford-
able as ‘opposed to travel-
ling.

Austin’s committee’ will
resume hearings in the fall
and is. now pondering tech-
nical data on the fish farm-
ing industry.

It plans to release a a pre-

‘liminary report on the indus-

try later this year.

Commercial _ fishermen
and recreational anglers
have criticized the industry,
saying raising fish in closed
pens breeds disease which
then affects wild salmon
populations.

question.

fisheries:

Glenn Kelly

. munity is being greedy about

it all. Why give to one com-
munity and not to others?”

_ She said.. -
Monaghan and Pauline
_ Maitland, who has helped

organized the Kitimat fish-

ing derby for the past four
years, think a regional fish-

‘ing derby would have been
‘) more fair.

“We can’t compete with
something like that,” Mait-
land said of the Prince Ru-
pert. derby. “We, don’t have
a zillion dollars worth of
prizes.” .

Kitimat’s 19th annual
fishing derby runs Sept. 2-
3, with top prizes valued at
about $3,000.

But Bruce Wishart, ex-:
ecutive director of Prince -

Rupert Tourism, that city’s

“tourism agency, says . the

city’s fishing derby was

- meant to’ benefit.the region,

not just the city.

“We are trying to replace ,

the independent tourists that
would be travelling to and

._ from Rupert to catch. the

up To 06 000»: IN DELIVERY ALLOWANCE" *

ferries,” he said. “One type

of traveller that goes up the ;

highway and back is the
fishers.”

Each community along
‘Highway 16 should benefit,
because tourists are “doing
the same thing — stopping

for meals, fueling. up, stay-:
- ing at hotels,” Wishart said.
As for.a regional derby,

the logistics of managirig
“a large-scale event would
have been too difficult, he
added.

With the high stakes up
for grabs, it. was. important

to localize the event for bet-.

ter control, he said.

Wishart said organizers
have been and will continue |

to work closely with the.fed-
eral Department of Fisheries
and Oceans to monitor fish
stock numbers.

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