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Pedestrian killed

A 47-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man is facing
changes of hit and run and refusing to provide a breath
sample in connection with the death of a Vancouver

woman on Saturday.

The man‘s name wus not released by Vancouver

Police.

Vancouver Police Const. Anne Drennan said
Elizabeth Anne Dawson, 38, died after being struck by a
vehicle while she apparently crossed East Hastings
Street, between Main and Carrall Streets.

A witness reportedly took down the car’s licence plate
number as the vehicle left the scene.

The North Vancouver man was arrested at bis home
and later released from custody, said Drennan.

The investigation continues.

BC Rail Gleneagles lots
deal approved in W. Van

WEST VANCOUVER District
Council granted BC Rail a devel-
opment permit and final zoning
approval for an 18-lot subdivision
on Monday.

WEST VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
By Maureen Curtis

But that wiil not stop council
from considering the lots for possi-
ble future municipal purposes,
Mayor Mark Sager said.

“ET strongly recommend that that
be considered,” said Coun. Diana
Hutchinson.

In the meantime, the develop-
ment permit council approved reg-
ulates the form of the subdivision,
the creation of the southern
Seaview Walk Park and northern
recreation lands.

Many of the comments local
residents made at a recent public

meeting were incorporated into the
development permit, according to
planning director Steve Nicholls.

A private building scheme will
encourage consistency of building
form, such as mandatory pitched
roofs.

Identical house design or the
use cf bright colors on 13 of the
Jots will be prohibited.

The removal of trees during
construction and the height of
fences will be restricted on the two
Jots on Marine Drive south of
Eugleridge.

One of the lots, which is located
on an access path to Seaview
Walk, must be built upon with
wood and stone materials in sub-
dued colors.

The municipality will eventual-
ly gain title to most of the Seaview
Walk and other land owned by BC
Rail.

The cost of all 18 lots has been
estimated at about $3 million.

Service for disabled praised

From page 3

ators are aware of this company rule,
he added.

“It’s unfortunate that it's taken a
situation like this...”

* Acres said bus operators try their
hardest to serve the disabled effec-
tively and were upset by Oin’s com-
plaint. But, he said, the damage to
Oin’s wheelchair occurred as a result
of him chasing the bus after it had
left. “We don’t really feel we can be
responsible for something that hap-
pens in this interim situation.”

And, he noted, bus drivers like
the one who came along as Oin
chased the first bus, cannot pick up
passengers, disabled or otherwise,
between stops.

Meanwhile, several News readers
expressed dismay at Oin’s negative
report about B.C. Transit.

Jack Timaeus of Access
Awareness Unlimited said local bus
drivers should be commended for the
assistance they offer the disabled, He
pointed out that on June 25, for
example, two North Vancouver
operators and a supervisor “went
above and beyond the call of duty”
in providing direct transportation to
two disabled women on scooters
who were trying to link up with
other members of his group to take
part in the Canada Week Parade.

Anita Dadson of the North Shore
Transportation Advisory Committee,
a group sponsored by the Disability
Resource Centre, described the inci-

dents of which Oin complained as |

“isolated.”

“On the whole, the service is an
excellent service and is being used
by the disabled travelling communi-
ty,” she said.

Regional health board forms

From page 3

ideas for new programs,” said
Schamborzki.

Proposals for use of the Closer to
Home Fund are required to be sub-
mitted to the Health Ministry by
Sept. 9.

The North Shore is one of 21
health regions in the province as

detined by the initiative.

The regions are slated to provide
communtities with a voice in shaping
their own health services.

A new regional health board for
the North Shore is expected to be in
place by October. The board will
replace the existing hospital board

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Saltwater

Wednesday, July 27, 1994 - North Shore News - 5

fishery fine

for anglers this year

Capilano Hatchery coho returns are a reliable catch

FOR SALTWATER anglers in
the Lower Strait of Georgia,
199} was the worst year in
living memory and 1993 wats
one of the best,

By John Massey
Contributing Writer

The outlook for this season
remains somewhat huzy. However,
a quick look at recent past statistics
may help bring reports and fore-
casts for this summer and fall into
focus.

The chinook spori catch for
1993 was 119,000, up from
110,000 in 1992 and the four-year
average of the same number.

The coho catch, which ts the
principle indicator of the quality of
fishing in the Lower Strait, was
839,000 in 1993, well up from the
1992 catch of 588,000 and the
four-year average of 453,000 —
which was materially lowered by
the {991 disaster when it appeared
that almost all the coho had left the
Strait.

Terry Gjernes, biologist for the
Department of Fisheries and
Oceans’ (DFO) recreational! fish-
cries division, anticipates that
while this season will be nothing
like 1993, it should be considerably
better than 1991.

While there are far fewer coho
in the Lower Strait than there were
last year, the West Coast of
Vancouver Island is teeming with
them.

Limit catches are being reported
all the way from Port Renfrew to
Clayoquot Sound. This gives rise
to an interesting conjecture which
Gjemes says he so far has no evi-
dence to deny or confirm.

This year is the cycle year for
the 1991 brood stock spawners.

The greatest part of this stock
left the strait, went out ta the West
Coast and were caught as far away
as the shores of Washington and
Oregon.

Could it be that this year's coho
stocks have responded to some
genetic impulse that has taken
them back to the same route as
their progenitors?

Gjernes said that when he is in
receipt of some nose analyses from
the West Coast catch he may be
able to confirm this.

This chinook catch is reperted
to be normal! this year but because
there is an abundance of bait, most-
ly juvenile herring, throughout the
whole Strait of Georgia, the salmon
are not concentrating the way they
do when forced to find and feed on
smaller shoals.

The coho returns to the
Capilano Hatchery produce proba-
bly the most reliable and casily
accessible saltwater fishing for
Vancouver residents, and various
salmon enhancement techniques,
such as Danny Sewell’s net pens in
Horseshoe Bay, have improved
both their survival rates and their
size.

it has been estimated that under
natural or hatchery spawning con-
ditions the mortality of down-
stream migrating smolts can he as
high as 90%,

Mergansers, kingfishers, gulls
and other predators al] take a heavy
toll.

However, if the smolts are kept
in net pens in saltwater for four to
six weeks before being released,
after dark to avoid predators, their
survival rate is greatly increased.

Sewell’s Marina in Horseshoe

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Bay stared researching the possi-
bility of participating in net pen
holding of smolts in 1984. In 1985,
in return for building the net pens
and undertaking to feed their
inhabitants, the marina received
from the DFO its first smolts:
about 30,000 coho and 76,000 chi-
nook,

{n an attempt to optimize sur-
vival rates the smolts were divided
into three groups, The first to be
released after two months, the sec-
ond after six months and the third
after eight months.

As a result of these and other
experiments, Sewell is now satis-
fied that ihe best results are
obtained when smolts are released
after four to six weeks in the pens.

The returns from these releases
have been dramatic. The fish return
to the site of the net pens from
which they were released and in
August last year, anglers were
catching well-grown coho only 50
yards from Sewell's dock. Sewell
said that many anglers also took
them frora the beach.

Critics of net pen technology
often wonder what happens when
homing salmon fail to find their
native stream. Do they, if they sur-
vive capture, finally find a spawn-
ing stream?

According to Sewell and some
DFO spokesmen, they do.

Some of the returning
Horseshoe Bay-released fish final-
ly found their way to the Capilano.

Some, it is thought, have found
spawning grounds in MacNab
Creek and there is evidence of a
few being found in small streams
on Bowen Island.

The DFO has been experiment-
ing with net pen-released chinook
in Indian Arm.

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