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NORTH VANCOUVER Dis-
trict Council voted unanimously
Monday night to add its name to
the growing list of those fight-
ing cuts to West Coast salmon
enhancement funding.

NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNGIL
By Martin Millerchip

A proposed $3-million cut in
federal funding includes the inten-
tion to cancel the government's
$153,000 contract with the
Seymour Salmonid Society.

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Dykeman calls on letter-writers

volunteers to produce hundreds of
thousands of salmon, steelhead
and cutthroat trout each year.

Dykeman told the News he was
astonished that the federal govern-
ment “would destroy une of the
best volunteer programs in the
province and probably in the
country.”

He urged interested residents to
get involved and write to the
Minister of Fisheries us well as
Senator Ray Perrault,

“If the community follows up
we'll get the message right into
the minister’s hands.” suid
Dykeman.

The Seymour Salmonid Society
was established by North Shore
residents in 1987 to operate a
sma}! hatchery on the Seymour
River established by B.C. Institute
of Technology (BCIT) a few years
earlier.

According to director Bill Ryan
the suciety has subsequently built
the hatchery into a substantial
non-profit enterprise.

A modern classroom at the
hatchery provides educational
facilities fur students in public
schools, BCIT, the University of
British Columbia and Simon
Fraser University.

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The hatchery hosts about
10,000 visitors a year.

The $153,000 federal grant
covers the cost of fish food and
other supplies and the wages of
three paid employees.

The larger Capilano River
hatchery is owned and operated by
the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans with nine full-time staff.

On Feb. 12) North Vancouver
City also backed a petition appeal-
ing cuts to current salmon
enhancement funding.

To add your voice, write The
Honorable Fred Mifflin, Minister
of Fisheries, Parliarnent Buildings,
Ottawa, Ontario, KIA OA6 (no
stamp required).

That decision would close
down the Seymour River
Hatchery, which according to
Mayor Murray Dykeman would be
“a tragic toss.”

Dykeman’s motion to council
highlighted the fact that the hatch-

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