18 - Wednesday, October 23, 1985 - North Shore News

Return of rains
brings best
salmon return

THE RAINS finally came, ending one of the
worst droughts coastal British Columbia has ex-

perienced in decades.

Now that the rivers are
rising we are finding some of
the best salmon returns seen
in years. Most Island spawn-
ing systems are now full of
chinook salmon with the
chums and coho flooding in
to compete for areas to nest
and spawn,

1 don’t think anyone is
surprised by the excellent
chinook return. | know Fed-
eral Fisheries predicted
doom and gloom, but of
course that failed to pass.

By cutbacks in the com-
mercial fishery, smal! sports
limits, spot closures on most
rivers, the total catch looks
fairly controlled.

The educated guess is that
the return of chinooks would
have been good even without
all of the stringent cutbacks
we faced this season.

By ISKY

tremendous runs in Island
and Mainland streams,

The Stamp Kiver in the
Alberni Viiley is no excep-
tion as the Robertson Creek
Hatchery has insured
steelhead angling in the
Stamp year round. This year
this system which takes in
the Somas, Ash und Stamp,
is full of these Sightin’ sea-
run rainbow.

Because in the early years
of enhancement the
steelhead would move from
the estuary to the hatchery
very quickly, therefore not
enabling the sports angler an
opportunity to utilize these
fish, the provincial people
developed fish that would
stay in the lower reaches of

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situation would be to have
too few in the Babine. All in
all our salmon this year are
in- good numbers on the
spawning beds.

The steelhead - rehabilita-
tion program of our provin-
cial: Fisheries Department is
certainly a great success! The

past, few.’ years have . seen.

This worked well until this
year when Federal Fisheries
closed the Somas and the
Stamp Falls arga to protect
the big spawning chinook
due to low-water conditions.
A decline in chinook spawn-
ing stocks had been
predicted for this year but as
we all know a good return
has happened, albeit late.

For the past two months
the Somas and the forbidden

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