Fish hatchery gets new head

Brady Fotheringham
Comtributing Writer

THE Seymour River
hatchery is undef new
direction from a
German-born multilin-
gual biologist.

Renate Lehmann took over
coordinating — the salmon
restoration: and education pro-
grams nwo months age at the
hatchery. Lohmann is ranster-
ning her aquatic biology skills
into reviving an ailing cohe
population,

“Cohe populations are
crashing in this provines and
have been decreasing for the
past six vears.” sad Brian
Smith, fish production manag
erat the hatchery.

Smith said: climatic condi-
tions such as Ef Nino, over:
fishing andl Gecan survival fac:
tors have servely reduced the
coho stock.

When the — Greater
Vancouver Regional District
(GVRD) built the Sevmour
dam in the late 1950s it
destroved 20 km of marine
habitat along the Sevmour
River. It’s been an uphill battle
ever since to rebuild the vari
ous salmon stocks.

“As an enhancing society
We are trying to rebuild popu:
lations back to historic levels
and trving to compensate: tor
the effect of the dim on the
salmon) population.” Smith
said.

Before joining the hatchery
in May, Lehmann previously
worked as a researcher far the
forest. science department at
the Cniversity of British
Columbia. She analyzed the
effects of clear-cutting and for-
est harvesting often travelling
to remote Jocations.

Art gallery
seeks
artists for
2006 show

THE Seymour Art
Gallery is on the look-
out for artists adept in
pastels.

The Deep Cove commu-
nity gallery will be mounting
an exhibition of pastel two-
dimensional works in the
spring of 2000. Artists are
invited te: send in their sub-
missions.

Submissions should
include:

Ba current resume and
artist’s statement,

B six slides or photographs
af recent works labelled with
the artist’s name, address and
telephone number;

Bjucy fee of S14,

B self-addressed, stamped
envelope for return.

Slides should be present-
ed in a slide folder; right side
up indicated by placing a red
dot in the lower left
comer.Cheques should be
made pavable ta Seymour
Art Gallery.

Submissions should be
mailed prior to Sept. 15 to
Seymour Art Gallery, 4360
Gallant Ave.. North
Vancouver, B.C. V7G 112.
Successful applicants will be
notified by phone before
Ot. 15.

For more information,
call Carole Badgley at the
gallery, 824-1378. Gallery
hours are Tuesday to Sunday,
nuon fo + p.m.

With acmasters dewres
aguaty duology trom MeGull
Unnversity, Dehmann’s job at
the hatchery anoles tundras
Ing. salmon restoratien and
pubhe edircauen programy,

Students trom schools tke
Coquithany’s Minnekhada
middle school are run through
the "Gently Down the
Seymour” field tap program
where children are uisen a
tour of the salman: hatchery,
the surrounding forests and
WATET INSECT SATION.

“We work in conjunction
with school teachers coordi-
nating their projects,”

Lehman said.

Always cnthtaiisis to sce
teachers and kids in hip waders
studving COOSUSTCIDS,
Tehmann ots ochinking ot
expanding the program to
encompass more hich schools

Lehmann, 35. who os thi
entooin English, krench,
German and Spanish has had a
varied: career travelling exten
avely to all seven continents.
From Nepal to New Zealand,
Antarctica to Asia, Lehmann
has spent most of her working
life in vartous research assistant
jobs including 4 German expe-
chtion aboard the research ves:

sel Polarstern te the south pole
m 995,

An avid scuba diver, kavak
erand biker, Lehmann loves
the outdoors avalible te her
ithe Lower Maintind

“Thats the reason P moved
our West. Comms trom
Furope it’s such an exception
al place.” Lohmann sat ot the
Inking, particularly the
Squamish area

Funded largely bw the

GVRD and Department of

Fisheries and Oceans, the
Seymour hatchery is ran by
the Seymour Salmonid
Society.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

RENATE Lehmann is newly in charge of coordinating salmon restoration and
education programs at the Seymour River fish hatchery in North Vancouver.

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