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FEDERAL FISHERIES
minister Fred Mifftia’s plan
to cut the B.C, commercial
fisheries fleet in half is
receiving a mixed reaction
upriver.

Mifflin’s plan won't affect
sport fisheries in the Skeena
region one way or another,
according to Skeena Reform
MP Mike Scott.

Scott says that the plan
does have some positive
aspects such as area licens-
ing.

Area licensing prohibits
southcoast-licensed boats
from heading north to fish,
as they have in the past,
when fishing was poor in
southern walers.

~ But Scott points out that
under the Mifflin Plan
fishermen can buy multiple

licences, known as ‘stack-

ing’, and fish in multiple
areas,

“Twenty per cent of the

- boats catch 80 per cent of

the fish,’’ he says. “These
are the most efficient,
professional fishers, and
they will have to fish as
hard or harder to pay for

~more licences. So from this

point of view, the plan
won't help conserve
stocks.”?

According to Scott, the

most pressing danger to

both commercial and sport
fishing on the northcoast is
the lack of fishing regula-
tions between B.C. and
Alaska.

“Ti’s pretty much an un-
disputed fact that 60 per
cent of the chinook taken in
Southeast Alaska are Cana-
dian fish,” he says.

’ **Massive commercial over-

fishing by Alaska has a
much more profound effect
than anything the Mifflin
Plan does,’?

But Temace resident
Bruce Hill of the Steelhead
Society disagrees.

“The Mifflin Plan is criti-
cal to sports fishing,’’ he
says. ‘It has to go forward
if we are to rebuild stoc!

Hill claims that most of
the arguments against the
plan are misinformed.

He agrees that the fastest,
most modern boats will buy
multiple licences and fish
the whole coast.

“But you simply can’t cut
the number of boats in half
and not reduce the catch,”
Hill says,

According to Hill,
rumours of increased corpo-
rate concentration in the
fisheries and possible col-
lapse. of coastal com-
munities resulting from the
plan are unfounded,

*T’ve talked to major pro-
cessors and they have no in-
tention of buying the small-
er boats,’? he says. ‘‘And
the corporate concentration
of seiners is a fait accompli,
It happened decades ago.’*

Hill admits that the Mif-
flin plan will not reduce the
catch by 50 per cent. But he
says that it’s a good first
Step, contrary to arguments
put forward by opposition
forces.

“The fishing industry has
a consistent record of fight-
ing conservation
measures,’ says Hill,
“Hundreds of commercial
fishers support the plan, but
it’s just the radicals who are
being heard.”’

Mifflin Plan

m Aims to cut the
salmon-fishing fleet in
half.
mw $80 million set aside
for a voluntary buy-
back of licences from
fishers.
mw Creates ‘area licens-
ing’, forcing fishermen
to choose a fishing
grounds,

w Allows fishermen to
buy multiple licences,
so they can fish several
areas.

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