{YOUR COMMUNITY RaTIREEIE Seay JYU87T Nows O835-2E31 Chassified 986-6222) Distribution 9860-1337 44 poimes Se NEWS photo Tom Burloy -Hoop-to-hoop A WINDSOR DUKES player leaps for the basket Friday, helping his team to a 69-61 win over opponent Argyle Pipers. In the North Shore playoff games, Windsor quali- fied to host the Howe Sound AA senior boys’ basketball tournament. In semi-final action Tuesday night, Windsor piayed against Carson Graham Eagles and the Pipers squared off against Handsworth Royals. Finals for the four-day tournament are set for Feb. 26. For more sports action see page 13. LOCAL recreational —fish- ermen, fed By West Van- couver pop. singer Terry Jacks, are calling for a halt to commercial prawn and crab fishing in’ Horseshoe Bay harbor. By MAUREEN CURTIS Contrbanny Writer Jacks’s proposal, which will be submitted to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, was endorsed by West Vancouver District Council Mon- day night. Dan Sewell, chairman of the Sport Fish Advisory Board to the fisheries ministry, is also recom- mending closure, “This is an extremely well- utilized recreational area,’ Jacks said of Horseshoe Bay in his letter to council. He fisted four marinas, three yacht clubs, three ocean-side parks, an underwatet marine park and several sport-fish guiding out- fits that use the area. NOTHING LEFT “It has been very upsetting to watch two or three commercial boats take away the year-round enjoyment from a very large number of sportsmen and residents by dropping hundreds of traps and fishing this area day and night ... leaving little or nothing behind them,’’ Jacks wrote. According to Jacks, at least two commercial fishing boats have moved into the Horseshoe Bay area in the last two to three years. Each, he said, puts down at feast Youth issues addressed: 3 200 traps, once or Owice in a 24- hour period during shellfish season, Which is open two or three times a year, The fishing of prawn and shrimp using traps was closed in the Howe Sound area Dee. 23 to allow a study of prawn and shrimp populations. There are currently no federal controls on the size or numbers of prawns taken, and local sports fishermen are concerned that commercial fishermen are depleting the local stock, Sports fishermen are currently allowed to take 12 kilograms of prawns in the shell per day per person. MARKED DECREASE Fisheries spokesman Scotty Roxburgh said Tuesday the closure of the Horseshoe Bay area to commercial prawn and shrimp fishermen came following a study that showed a marked decrease in new stocks of the shellfish in 1986. Jacks pointed out that commer- cial fishermen use ocean-going boats that are capable of travelling further afield than those of resi- dential sportsmen, but, for conve- nience, they stick to the Horseshoe Bay area. The fisheries ministry will meet March | with the commercial fish- ermen involved, and with Jacks and his fellow petitioners on March 3. Roxburgh said Tuesday fisheries officials will meet with prawn fish- ermen March 4, crab fishermen March 5 and shrimp fishermen March 6 to address the problem in the Horseshoe Bay-Howe Sound area.