THE FISHING SCENE

B3 - Sunday, September 9, 1984 - North Shore News

Fun and learning at the Coho Festival

F YOU haven’t yet been to the West Vancouver
Coho Festival today is your last opportunity
for this year. This is the fifth annual Coho
Festival put on by the West Vancouver Chamber of

Commerce and CHQM.

Today’s festivities take
place at Ambleside Park and
begin with a 14km Coho Fun
Run from Ambleside to Kit-
silano. Historically, the
Squamish Indian Band resid-
ed primarily at Kitsilano and
returned to the North Shore
when the salmon returned to

the ‘Kapilano’ — the Indian
spelling for the word
Capilano.

There will be a_ family

Treasure Hunt this year
beginning near the Capilano
River estuary as well as a
guided hike down the GVRD
Park’s Coho Trail along the
banks of the Capilano River.
Beginning at 8 a.m. and
lasting until 1} a.m. there will
be a pancake breakfast put
on by the Lions Club at the
bottom of Taylor Way. This
will also be the site for the
departure of the busses which
will take people up to the
Cleveland Dam which is the
start of the hike down the
Coho Trail.

There will be a salmon
barbecue at Ambleside Park
beginning at 11 a.m. and go-
ing until 6 p.m. As well, this
year there will be a beer and
wine garden.

Some of the day’s enter-
tainment includes: a
breakdance contest,
children’s spin casting con-

test, the Vancouver Youth
Band, a martial arts
demonstration, the Van-

couver Summer Pops Band,
Square Dancing, a jazz con-
cert with the Roy Reynolds
Band, and folk singing on the
beach beside a bonfire.

The Department of
Fisheries and Oceans 1s spon-
soring a Tug-of-War contest

By DON D. McDERMID

this year between the com-
mercial fishermen, the sports
fishermen and themselves.
Sportsfishing in local
waters has been fair to good
with good catches of
chinooks being reported off
the mouth of Capilano River.
The best times to. catch
salmon are very early in the
morning or later in the day,
just before dusk; combine
these times with a low slack

tide and you have perfect ~-

conditions for fishing. Some
fly fishermen fishing from
the beach at Ambleside have
been doing well with one in
particular, Cliff Olson from
New Westminster, catching a
12 pound chinook and a six
pound coho recently.

Don’t forget that as of
midnight September 7, there
is a chinook closure exten-
ding from the Point Grey bell
buoy to Point Atkinson to
the First Narrows bridge.
This means that all chinook
salmon caught must be
released unharmed. This is to
protect the weak runs of
chinook salmon. There has
been a proliferation of
‘‘snapgers’’ down at the
mouth of the Capilano River.
This is a situation that should
not be tolerated.
CAPILANO HATCHERY

In 1971, the Capilano hat-
chery was built in order to
restore the coho and
steelhead runs which were
decimated by the construc-
tion of the Cleveland Dam in
1954.

The dam eliminated much
of the productive spawning

Seconds win again

NORTH SHORE Cricket
Club defeated U.B.C. Occa-
sionals in convincing fashion
at Norgate Park to maintain
a firm second place in their
division

UBC batted first and
were dismissed for 40 runs,
© Armstrong (10) being the
only batsman to reach double
figures North Shore bowled
and fielded brilliantly as was
evidenced by the 3 catches

taken by wicket-keeper’ P
Pisani and the 2. catches
taken by J) Ede, € Tottle
took 3 for 9, J Edel for 3,
P Cantelo 2 for 10, and H
Sidhu | for 9

When North Shore batted
they were never in trouble
against the U BC . attack,
and K Hira, P. Pisani. P
Cantelo, C. Tottl and S
Kaul all contributed nicely to
make the 41 runs required tor
victory

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areas which were used by the
coho and steelhead. In the
early years after construc-
tion, salmon and _ steelhead
were trucked past the dam
and released in the reservoir
in hope that they would then
spawn in the upper reaches of
the river. In the mid 1960's,
however, returns of coho to
the Capilano River declined
drastically to less than 400
fish. During the hatchery’s
first fear 300,000 coho eggs
were incubated. From these,
284,008 two year old fish
(smoltswere released in June

1973. In +1974, 40,000 adult
coho

returned spawn.

Hockey

In 1984 there were in excess
of 1.3 million chinook smolts
released into the Capilano
River, 500,000 coho smolts
and 12,000 steelhead smolts
below the dam. As well, 310
coho fry and 25,000 steelhead
fry were released above the
dam.

Expected returns of adults
to the river are as follows:
20,000 to 25,000 coho and
about 2000 chinook salmon.

Although over $1! million
was spent on an underground
filter system to ensure that
the hatchery water supply did
not pollute the river (a system
that would set an example in

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industry) it was later found
that the hatchery effluent in

the untreated state actually
promoted more abundant
fish life.

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