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BISHERIES OFFICIALS made a vain attempt Wednesday and
chinook salmon at the Capilano River. mouth, The chinook can’t swim up the river to ;
spawn. because the water level is too tow. Fisheries officials feared the fish would die
unspawned but found the chinook are not as close to spawning as eartier believed. They
now hope rain will raise the river level soon. See story page three.

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THE FEDERAL government announced Thurs-
day that tenders will be called for construction of
an $8 million fisheries research complex in West

Vancouver.

Construction on the new
complex is scheduled to
begin D-rember 5 and will
take two, ~s to complete.
Approximatey 115 man
years of on-site construction
employment will be
generated by the project.

A full time staff of 50,
presently working out of the
temporary research facility
buildings at the 4160 Marine
Drive site, is not expected to
increase as a result of the
new complex’s construction.

“Rather the project will
bring the existing facility up
to date,’’ said Howard
Smith, associate director of
research for the Federal
Fisheries pacific region.
“We will be able to conduct
research that cannot be done

in antiquated trailers.”

The trailers that currently
serve as the fisheries research
station were installed on the
site of the former Francis
Millerd Company's Great
Northern Cannery in the late
60s.

INCREASE PRECISION

Funded out of the
Department of Fisheries and
Oceans: budget, the new
research complex will, ac-
cording to Smith, increase
the precision of experiments
carried out in what are its
three main areas of research:
fish culture, fish habitat,
and lake enrichment.

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Capilano MP Mary Col-
lins said the project ‘is an
appropriate Thanksgiving
present, something to be
thankfulfor.”

THANKSGIVING GIFT

Additional water from
Cypress creek for the facility
will await the outcome of a
decision by West Vancouver
District Council, Smith said,
to build a controversial
debris pit on the creek. He
added that while the water
from the creek is needed by
the facility, it is not its
primary water source.

As to Thursday’s an-
nouncement, Smith = said,
““We’re delighted. Staff is
ecstatic. You could say
we’ve been waiting 20 years
for this. It has been a long
and tortuous road.”

Tota} construction costs of
the project are estimated to
be approximately $6 million.

AFTERMATH OF CRASH WITH POLICE CAR

LAWYERS for the driver of a car slammed by an
RCMP police cruiser September 7 have started
legal proceedings for their client against the North
Vancouver RCMP officer involved.

Acting for 21-year-old
Tatjana Oswald, Laurence
O'Neill of Harris, Campbeli,
Threlfall, O’Neill, said
Monday his client would be
suing for damages, suffering
and income loss resulting
from the accident.

Oswald was behind the
wheel of a car being pushed
by two male companions
just west of Queensbury
Avenue on Third Street at
approximately 10:50 p.m.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

whén it was rear-ended by an
RCMP cruiser speeding
west.

In the original report of
the accident, which appeared
in the September 1) issue of
the News, eyewitness Marga
Molson reported the cruiser
to be ‘going about 120 miles
per hour with no siren on.’’

According to the official

RCMP report into the inci-
dent, Cst. Steven Martin, the
officer driving the police
vehicle involved, was
responding to a call for
assistance from a fellow of-
ficer.

But the first police report
of the accident failed to in-
clude Oswald as being
behind the wheel of the car,
or even being present at the
scene of the accident.
However, subsequent reports
verified her presence.

Though both vehicles were
totalled in the accident, nei-
ther the two males pushing
the car nor the police officer

were injured.

The injuries suffered by
Oswald, according to
O'Neill, were primarily
whiplash related.

North Vancouver RCMP
superintendent Roy Byrne
said Thursday he was thus
far unaware of any civil ac-
tion being brenght against
the detachment ar Cat. Mar-
tin stemming from the
September 7 accident.

As far as the North Van-
couver detachment's driving
record is concerned, Byrne

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