BUSINESS GEARS UP DESPITE OPPOSITION

Arm fish farm gets stock

Indian

THE FIRST load of salmon
smolts was delivered by
plane Monday to a con-
troversial Indian Arm fish
farm.

A total of 8,500 female chinook
were flown into Pacific
Aquaculture Ltd.’s farm from the
company’s associate San Mateo
Bay hatchery on Vancouver Island.

Pacific’s general manager Jim
Malamas said 101,500 chinook will
be delivered to the company's farm
this week as initial seed stock that
will be ready for harvest in ap-
proximately 18 months.

The company plans to expand
the present four-pen operation to
include as imany as 18 fish-rearing
pens and to increase annual pro-
duction from 30 tons to 200 tons.

Approval for the farn, which is
approximately seven kilometres
north of Deep Cove harbor, was
given Jast month by the Vancouver
Port Corp. despite opposition to
any expanded f<h farm in Indian
Arm from a number of area resi-
dents.

Pacific originally applied to
move its operation from the site of
the original Indian Arm fish farm
siie near Orlomah Beach following
continued resident opposition to
the farm and the company's ex-
pansion plans.

In addition, the farm’s expanded
on-shore component conflicted
with area single-family zoning, and
North Vancouver District advised
Pacific in March that they would
have to comply with the zoning cr

move.

VPC approved relocation of ui:
farm to the new site, which is ap
proximately two kilometres north

of the original farm, after port of-
ficials concluded that all federal
and provincial fish farm. criteria
had been met by Pacific.

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NEWS photo Neii Lucente

THE NEW !oading ramp for the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal’s Berth Two was delivered lest week after its
construction was completed by North Vancowver’s Efiioti Steel Lid. Weighing approximately 95 tons, the ramp
will replace the one that coligpsed Apzil 28 at the Horseshoe Bay terminal. It is scheduled to be in service by the

weekend.

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PACIFIC AQUACULTURE Lid.'s Strato Maiamas holds
two of the 8,500 salmon smolts delivered Morday to the:
company’s relocated Ladiun Arm fish farm. Approximately
100,000 chinook are being flown into the farm this week.

NEWS photo Nell Lucente

New ferry ramp
finished by Friday

THE B.C. Ferry Corp. loading ramp that collapsed April 28
in Horseshoe Bay should be back in service by the weekend.

A new loading ramp was
delivered last Friday to the Horse-
shoe Bay terminal from Elliott
Steel Lid. of North Vancouver.

And B.C. Ferry Corp.
spokesman Bill Bouchard said
Monday the ramp for the termi-
nal’s Berth Two should be in
operation by Friday.

The terminal has three loading
berths.

Elliott Steef, which has been
building structural and mechanical
components for ferry terminals for
the past 23 years, buiit the 95-ton
ramp in eight weeks.

The old ramp crashed into
Horseshoe Bay harbor at 5:36 p.m.
April 28 immediately after the 5:30
p.m. sailing of the Queen of
Cowichan had pulled away from
the dock on its way to Langdale.

A male ramp attendant was
tossed into the water during the
incident, but he was fished from
the water a short time later by a
passing boat.

Subsequent investigation estab-

Road link planned for Sunshine Falis.

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under the control of Sunshine Falls
residents would be a beginning step
bringing about increased develop-
ment pressure in the Sunshine Falls
area and potentially Indian Arm as
a whole,”’ Hay said, pointing out
that the main thrust of the
district’s Alpine Area Official
Community Plan is ‘to protect
most of the area in its wilderness

state.”
Council, she added, had put a

limit on further residential devel-
opment in the area.

But Ald. Joan Gadsby said,
“None of this is to encourage fur-
ther development”’ in the land use
area designated “rural residential’’
in the alpine area plan.

Baker said she had been inform-
ed that there are 15 homes in the
Sunshine Falls area and that there
was potential for 17 more homes at
present.

The road, which is planned to
begin just below the hairpin turn

on Indian River Drive and will be
built to no more than fire-access
road standards, will give Sunshine
Falis an overland link with the rest
of the district for the first time
since an old loggiag road fell into
disuse in the 1940s and became
overgrown, Hays said in her
report.

Ald. Bill Rodgers tried repeated-
ly to get his fellow aldermen to
defer building permission to a
future council meeting, stressing
that the district needed a firm

funding commitment from the
province before letting residents go
ahead.

“*The district could be stuck with
a huge bill,” Rodgers warn-
ed.‘‘Insurance is also an issue, as
well as the question of restricted
access."’

Rodgers’ motion to defer the
decision was defeated, but his con-
cerns were added to the original
permission motion and will be
dealt with before Aug. 14.

lished that cause of the ramp
failure was mechanical.

In addition, B.C. Fezries has
begun running late night sailings
between Horseshoe Bay and
Nanaimo while the Queen of Co-
quitlam undergoes repairs to its
crankshaft at the corporation’s
Deas Dock refit complex.

Thursday through Monday, the
Queen of Alberni will depart
Horseshoe Bay at Ji p.m. and
Nanaimo at | a.m.

A reservation syste for com-
mercial vehicles on the fate night
sailings went into effect July 6.

The 192-car capacity Queen of
New Westminster, meanwhile, will
replace the 362-car Queen of Co-
quitlam while the latter is being
repaired.

In addition to having less capac-
ity, the Queen of New Westminster
takes 30 minutes longer to make
the Horseshoe Bay-to-Nanaimo
run.

A revised schedule is therefore in

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