A8 - Sunday, October 14, 1984 - North Shore News ho's robbing the Hatchery? HIS BUSINESS about our noble brothers the Indians being interested in the gods of nature is so much fairypoo. They couldn’t care less about conservation. That's why they take fish under the pretence of serving their own food needs, flog the stuff when they can, and will go on grabbing saimon out of the Capilano River un- tl the chinook’s as scarce as facts in ficuion. No doubt) you've heard about what's going on at the mouth of the Capilano, with Whitey being roughed up and pushed around by Squamish braves for daring to put a pole in the water from what 1s now supposed to be Indian land. Never mind that he’s been doing " for years and years. Thisis Wimpland, and “traditional rights’ apply to Indians but not to others Not that you can really blame the Indians. If Whitey's leaders insist on giv- ing the store away, that’s his fault for electing them. The weak-kneed media can be proud, too, for running all those sob stones about how tadly thoNe-by our Red Brothers are. were trouble on the Capilano comes from the Scoreds having decided to ‘give back'’ parts of Ambleside to the Squamish. | have commented on_ that before, and won't go into tt again except to say that West Vancouver got screwed. What 1s happening now is just as bad, and had its genesis in a typteal bureaucratic boondogegle tht threatens the Capilano’s chinook run Seven years azo, you see, the Squamish Band passed a bylaw under which it clatmied control over salmon passing through ats reserve | bender the Indian Act, the feds tad 40 days during which thes could have disallowed the bylaw But they were bast asleep, as usual. and did nothing dn addition. nmeobeods tell the what was thought to baisheries people POUR on even though thes are respon sible for Phe Outen locdhians Wave thre thre resource was that thre toy hit for tithe fish on the reser sation ty ates Wiican Ebes o hoose the use «vf (Yeah We actually dou t allaw ther except ty explosives ck Wonders FEV EE COANE to toss grenades into the water ) So there they are at the mouth of the © aprhane fisting away Tike trad wath tre bbe took sant attire bist re Se OO Sti karip oN peccbitiean Whites mieanwlide orb tee tee thas tirrtsedt Dba de ites bedb tirnre tee beep ott ated the basterves ve El tareas precrgorte that for the sake of Conserva- tion he is restrictéd to single hooks when he can fish, and has to observe a closure on ee get this _Straight Doug Collins Pe | chinook. But the Indians can say to hell with the closure Native rights, y'know. One law for the rich and one for the poor. What makes it even more of a laugh 1s that you've paid out plenty of bucks to put up the Capilano Fish Hatchery But any chinooks that get by our brothers are very lucky fish indeed The tisheries department telly meat has “not achieved adequate returns to the hat chery), and that ‘it all user groups fish without restraint the hatchery will mot receive enough chinooks to marta a Captlano run | Butotoasn’t aff user groups they have fo worry about at's the Jnedian user group And that group, detecting that Whites lacks guts, is all set to do a war dance, which ts what happened when an tn dian threw a rock ato an old dian and just missed ham tro mention only one recett mcident) Band Dave Jacobs is quoted as say cOunedh oo ohatrtnar ing that othe Pndrans ate treattny the fishing resource as thers To ivake sure you vetothe pomtl. he says the beaatiad thas ra aguetas on the catel da other words what thos wail they take Yet they whe not respeotusibble for any beqebe tien of Hie rescnuns ¢ Ndiarke se tise cob thea it veo Alte Bde abyes oc bareray bes allo rich | hoa ot ol cor btu ad hitler cea es Pofeer cetee cathe tibody Pehoagp The Tree People are an ostablished NS company with 25 years experience of true quality workman ship tor NS restdents & qualitied people to get the job aone mght industries We have Our stalf is equipped with all the modern methods of the industry, and are complimented with govern ment residential climbers licensed horticulturists, and ( ertiftted LET THE PROFESSIONALS WORK FOR YOU! 59 BEWICKE NV 987.2084 CALM WATERS on the lower stretch of the Capilano River give no hint of the rampaging torrent which developed from the Thanksgiv- ing weekend onward. with cultural ditterences, because what these guys mean is that they want to ride in two worlds, with us paying the bills both ways 1 am told that the end of the spit at the nver mouth ts not Indian land. 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