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WEST VANCOUVER'S Erik Lehman beats the throw home to Highlands’ catcher Sean
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West Van edged Highlands 12-11. The championship game takes place Tuesday night.

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| Cap chinook

returns not
improving | |
DON’T EXPECT many

“members of the. rapidly

declining. chinook
salmon population to-
return’ to the Capilano
hatchery this year, said a
UBC biologist who has
studied the fish for 18
years.

By lan Noble

News Reporter

Dr. Carl Walters said chi- ;
nook salmon have not done well previously in

the Capilano River and are doing “very poorly”

at other hatcheries.

Chinook numbers in Georgia Strait, he said, -

ure down 90S from the early 1970s.

“There ain't a whole lot of chinook salmon
in the Georgia Strait,” emphasized Walters,
who specializes in fish populations.

Ted Perry, the Department of Fisheries and

COHO SALMON are returning to the Capilan
questions about numbers won’t be answered until September.

Oceans salmon enhancement chief of assess-
ment, agreed that chinook returns have-nacbeen

NEWS photo Terry Peters
o hatchery, but

good in the past and there is no reason to expect 2%

that to change this year, .

He said chinook have difficulty getting back
up the river and may go elsewhere.

Walters adds that returns of coho salmon are

“also down drastically and unless they show up

in the fall, coho in Georgia Strait could be in

worse shape than chinook. a

Perry said it is still too early. to
get a handle on coho. numbers. He
said an exceptional number of coho
left Georgia Strait this year, which °
may affect when the fish return.

A’ better idea ‘of returns will be
available in ‘late.-August and
September, when most coho should
have returned. :

Walters ‘attributes: the chinook
decline ‘in Georgia Strait to over-
fishing and a deep drop in the sur-
vival rates of hatchery and wild fish
in the ocean.

Walters said he has no idea why
survival rates have plummeted.

“t's real scary." he added.

Previous cutbacks in commercial
fishing hay: not improved chinook

- Numbers,
Every time the comnercial fish-
ery has been hit with cuts, the sport
fishing industry has picked up the slack.
Walters said. :
He wants to see a cateb-and-release program
for all chinook in all fisheries --— for sportsmen,
and commercial and aboriginal fishermen.
Walters said a recently announced 50% cut-
back in the chinook take should help Georgia
Strait. chinook, but won't allow numbers to
rebuild. ue

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