Vote Reversed Joins Expo '86 Receipts Lost Locals Protest Spray
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ineers say 6no* to hatchery vote reversed the regional district's additional mariculture on the Coast is a very by Fran Burnside water requirements. The regional bright one. If a hatchery is After studying the report of con district would most likely be put to established, it will be there for a sulting engineers Dayton and the cost pf increasing its mountain very long time." • Knight on the proposed private fish storage of water to ensure minimal Gibsons alderman John Burn •jhatchery on lower Chapman flows during dry seasons in order side stressed that, "The provision' Creek, the Sunshine Coast to get its water licence increased, of adequate water supplies for Regional Board last week voted and its .mountain storage re Sunshine Coast residents is one of unanimously to "register its quirements would have to cover the most serious responsibilities we strongest opposition to the gran the amount of. water used by the have. While this is.one creek of ting of a water licence to Linda and hatchery as well as by the district. many, it is still our only major ac Thomas May", of Cockburn Bay The study also noted that the cessible water supply, and we must -Sea Farms, Nelson Island. water requirements of a hatchery protect it." The motion further requested a below the district's intakes "may Directors had previously re meeting with water rights officials make it costly and difficult...to quested that a clean-up bond be as soon as possible to ''resolve the construct new intake works and posted by the hatchery to protect •incompatibility "of this application connections". Board chairman Jim the regional district's parkland, on (May) or.ariy other applications for Gurney pointed out that the which the hatchery is seeking'a. the water pn Chapman Creek and district could be liable.for damages lease, and directors further: movecf the regional district's interests". should any result to the hatchery that the secretary-treasurer wr'te to , Chapman Greek has been iden during construction of district the Ministry of Lands, Parks and tified as the only major accessible? works-in the creek. Housing and ask who should hold source of domestic water on the Gurney also noted that, while in the $5,000 bond in the event that a]' Sunshine Coast, and the regional creased water needs on Chapman licence is granted to the hatchery board's current water licence, ade Creek were not a part of the ten- over the regional board's objec quate for the needs of up to 15,000 year water plan, "The future of tions. people, will eventually have to be increased. June Hope shows the people touring-Tidal Rush Marine Farms on Nelson Island a thing or two about Engineers estimate that, accor ding to the applications made by feeding the coho salmon, housed in floating nets attached to wooden walkways. -sand> t:mcr.»n Ph.,io the fish hatchery, the hatchery •would draw from the creek water FfomB.£^ class corresponding to the needs of ap joins Expo '86 proximately 40,000 people, arid would eventually have to apply for A motion to amalgamate the Expo '86 meeting held at Bella a water licence for this quantity. newly formed Sunshine Coast Beach Motel last week. According to Dayton and Tourist Association and the Expo. Fish farms get visit Knight, once this licence was '86 Committee received alrhost • The' tourist association lsM*£d'rii-' posed of motel and resort owners, Besides managing the fish farm, There are plenty of markets for jranted it would have priority over unanimous support at a regular by Sandy Emerson members of chambers of com Mr. Hope is the president of B.C. cultivated salmon, said Mr. May, Aid sought merce; and interested business peo The first fish farming course at Mariculture [Association; is a who is now flooded with orders in ple, and is intended to form one the Sechelt campus of Capilano member of the Salmon Farmers his second year of operation. He Association; and serves on the ad voice to promote the Sunshine College is the first of its kind in told the touring class that the local Coast elsewhere, its work will be British Columbia. Over 30 people visory council for the Science B.C. market demands more Council of Canada. Mrs. Hope is ongoing, even after Expo '86 is attended the first course while salmon than they can get locally, Receipts lost over. certified, in diagnosing diseases of another 20 are on a waiting list. which is one reason Norway does The honesty and co-pperatipn of and forth over any floating sales Expo '86 committee vice- Oddvin Vedo, Economic fish;: which site does from. her such a good business here. laboratory; \ ; members of our community could receipts so that they were chairman Richard Tomkies and Development Cpmmissioner fpr Participants in'the course found spare local Shell distributor Ralph destroyed. Tourism Association president Ed the Sunshine C^past, put the course Tom and Lirida May also plan the tours really enhanced what they Harding the loss of over $8,000 in The only other existing record of Traff had worked out a merhoran-. tog^iherM arid local experts two locations, their present opera learned in the classroom. Away credit card sales receipts, the result those sales is the customers' copies, dum agreement for incorporation ^vV^pre^nted.'inforniatipn.; Bob Bapr tion on Nelson "Island and-a pro-: from the glitter of prombt'onal _of a robbery at this premises.last and Mr. Harding is appealing to of the two groups. Through it, the fiste, in charge of the Porpoise Bay posed hatchery Pri Chapman films, they got a very realistic con .Monday night. everyone who is a credit card Expo '86 committee would become - cept of what the; fish.business en- hatchery, v spoke about salmon Creek. / .\ \.:. •/; / Thieves broke into Harding's 'Of- customer of either of the Shell sta an arm of the new society, fiscally enhancement! Eldon Stone, What is .exceptional at their- .' tailed. M " X'XX-Kx,'^., tions to please bjfing uj t^eijr^ppjes, and physically jcyriedUto 4t. but.ifi-. cj farmf-. is .jhg^.fresh':'.watersupply .^MlinMcial^ , ^C^,;acjrpss^ : * Reac-TMnip&ef^ "of any credit sales at Seamount Gar dependent in decision-making. The '••'.'• chery andC.,a fish, culturist;;spoikV , from t^ '•'Xdifficulfyfish''farmers "encounter, a r""reprpof safe. They also stole a Wash from May 2 to 6 inclusive, society would adopt and endorse . _. about reproduction, feeding, nutri- one turbine which generates elec- , because this sort of enterprise is "so boat moored nearby. and at Charlie's Shell from May 2 the workings of the committee. •' tricity for th£ entire farm. .'. new, banks are leary of investing in" M tion and diseases; Carten Hagen; ; Once on the water, they broke to 4 inclusive, so that they may be Members • moved that the owner bf the smoked salmon.pro-'••• The Mays are. experimenting it. Mn Vedo told the: class that open the safe, took between $300 recorded. memorandum agreement be used cessing plant in Sechelt, spoke, \vkh spawners to develop only ' federal funding and business con- and $400 in cash' then dumped The copies may be brought to as a guideline in forming the new about the technical equipment female smolts, with the purpose of . selling; through SCEDS, may help overbbard the safe and the re Seamount any day from 6 a.m. to society, and that an eight-man needed. Brad Hope, a fish farmer eliminating the i problem of them through the first couple of mainder of its contents, company midnight, to Gibsons Shell from 8 board of directors be formed, com /on^Nelson' Island, spoke about the premature jockirig lin males. This years of fish farming. MM ledgers and over $8,000 in credit a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, or may be posed of four people from each marketing and managing of the has been one difficulty for the The Combx air and sea rescue card sales receipts from both Sea dropped off at R. Harding and merging group. The board will also business., Mays due to the rapid and large had to aid stranded passengers mount Car Wash and Shell Service Son's office, across from Molly's consider hiring a full-time person, growth of their fish. Once the enrbute to Nelson Island, when station and Charlie Mandelkau's Reach. to oversee the operations of the en- \ On the last day of the course, the males mature, they^ drop weight their water taxi ran out Pf gas. Mr. group travelled to Nelson Island Gibsons Shell Service station. With such honesty, and co tire society and its sub-committees.M and changes in their scales fetch Vedo, the Coast News; and other operation from individuals in our and toured Brad Hope's and Tom only half of the pric^ females sell The thieves, both juveniles who Once formed the new group will ;' passengers were transferred to were subsequently captured in community,' Mr. Harding's losses apply for incorporation as a nono-M May's fish farm operations. for on the market place. another boat. The Hope's seven-year old farm Squamish. then ran the boat back might yet be minimized. profit society. X: is quite large, operating on two sites, one near their home, where 2,4-D used by Forestry June Hope supervises and the other in Hotham Sound,..run by their son Ken. Peace meeting . They are raising coho and The Sunshine Peace Committee meets tonight, Monday, May 14, chinook salmon, rainbow trout, Locals protest spray at 7:30 p.m.