Canada's ‘Number ‘One Suburban Newspaper October9 1985 News 985-2131 Highrise going up: THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 56 pages 25¢ nas Di GET TV NEWS? _TV NEWS, a complete entertainment guide including television listings for two weeks, was delivered inside the Friday, October 4 edition of the North Shore News. : The cover is a colorful picture of masks, and inside the issue is a Home Improve- ment supplement. Did you get yours? If not, please call the News’ cir and we'll make sure you get one. culation department at 986-1337 : ‘Controversy hatches ver carload of chicks A STATION wagon filled with 4,200 dead and dying male chicks resulted in a North Vancouver streetside confrontation Tuesday. WATER LEVEL TOO LOW Government moves to save ch FISHERIES OFFICIALS are poised and ready to snatch up. dying chinook salmon from the Capilano River mouth. Fearing chinook salmon will die before rain can raise the Capilano River water level to allow the salmon to move upstream to spawn, hatchery manager Eldon Stone said Tuesday he has decided to seine fish from By RO | the shore. Crews from the Inch Creek Hatchery and the Tenderfoot Hatchery in Squamish, more skilled and better equipped in brood stock capture, are being called in to help the Capilano crews capture enough chinook to supply the hatch- ery. The chinook will be scooped up, separated from the coho and transported ta the hatchery in water tanks. Stone said he expected to start seining at 10 a.m, this morning (Wednesday), but ancouver where they. found aj said he will assess the situa- tion again on site. Stone was considering hir- ing commercial seine boats Friday to capture the neces- sary brood stock if it didn’t rain over the weekend, but he said chinook are not as close to spawning as he orig- inally thought. “The chinooks are in fair- ly good shape right now,” Stone said. ‘‘The urgency And charges of cruelty to animals may be laid against a Gabriola Island resident. North Vancouver SPCA superintendent Jeff Lawson said his office received two calls from concerned resi- dents of the 100-block East [4th Street North Vancouver at approximately noon on Tuesday complaining that a car parked on the street was filled with dead and dying baby chicks. Upon arrival, Lawson said he found a station wagon loaded with the baby chicks and one Labrador-retriever. The dog was subsequently seized and taken into what Lawson said was protective custody under the prevention of cruelty to animals act. The act empowers any agent of the SPCA, after consultation with another agent, to seize an animal, if the two fecl the animal is not going to be given proper care. Lawson said the dog in question ‘twas very hot and would have suffered if left in the car for any length of time.’’ Owner of the station wagon, 29-year-old Martin Lee, said there was absolute- ly no proof that the dog was too hot or being abused in any way. The pure bred Labrador belonged, he said, isn’t as great as we thought. There are chinooks ai the mouth, but they aren’: in dire need to get up the river.” The best fish would be plucked from the nets for artificial spawning at the hatchery, Stone said, while the rest would be returned to the water. This is the second year ina row in which the hatchery has to his 23-year-old common- law wife Gwyn Brandon.”” Lee explained, after a heated exchange with Lawson, that he and Bran- don had stopped for an hour to visit his grandmother in Lions Gate Hospital. The baby chicks jn his car, Lee explained, were being transported to Gabriola Island ta be used ag feed for the falcons that he taises as a business. Seven bags of 600 chicks each had been pur- chased earlier Tuesday from an Abbotsford hatchery by Lee, “They suffocate the male chicks by the tens of thou- sands and sell them to mink farms,’’ Lee said, ‘‘because they are of no use to the hatchery."’ ' The Gabriola resident said a small .percentage of the male chicks, apparently not properly suffocated, had tevived in his car. | Lawson said the SPCA ‘seized 287 live chicks, idestroyed 10 as being ‘beyond recovery, and are ‘currently holding the balance ‘in ‘protective custody. The ‘seized dog, who Lawson said was in good shape, has since ‘been claimed by its owners. inook seine the :Planned to ichinook. { Last year sufficient rains ‘came just before seining was to begin. “More times than noc I've been fighting to save the hatchery from too much rain,’ Stone said, ‘We've probably had the longest, driest summer in recent memory.”’