NEWS BRIEFS
Hiker found

SEARCHERS LOCATED a Lions Bay man on Friday
after he went missing while on a hike the previous day.

According to a Squamish RCMP spokesman, a 51-
year-old resident of Lions Bay went on a hike from
Cypress Bowl to Lions Bay with his wife.

His wife subsequently returned to their car and plan-
ued to meet him in Lions Bay.

But the hiker, dressed only in shorts and a tight shirt,
failed to show.

Squamish RCMP were alertea at about 10:20 p.m. on
Thursday. Lioss Bay Search and Rescue and other
search and rescue units, including the North Shore
Rescue Team, were contacted and a search began.

The fost hiker was located following a helicopter
search Friday moraing.

Said Squamish RCMP Cpl. Chris Stewart, ‘He was in
an area you coulén’t walk out from. People should be
prepared when they are on the trail. Use the common
sense that God gave you. If you are going to gu out,
take 2 day pack with you.”’

Teen rescued

THE NORTH Shore Rescue Team (NSRT) located a
14-year-old female early Friday after the girl had gone
missing Thursday from ber UBC-area secondury school.

The teenager, a student at University Hil! Secondary
Schoo! in Vaacouver, walked away from a physical-
education class et about 2:30 p.m.

Twenty members of the NSRT were called in to search
at approximately 9:39 p.m.

The teen was fotind in good condition shortly after
dawn in bush acee near the school. The teen was taken
to University Hospital for examination.

Truck shocked

THE TIRES of a truck popped and burned in West
Vancouver after the vehicle took 2 12,000-voli charge in
a freak accideut on April 30.

According to a West Vancouver Fire Department
spokesman, 2 film production company was on location
in Horseshoe Bay working on a project called Night
Tide. Although the sun was shining, the shoot cailed for

arainy day.

A gust of wind collapsed a sun screen mounted on a
crane. A support arm = snapped and folded onto a
12,000-volt power line, sending the power through the

crane and truck below.
Firefighters were called in at approximately 12:40 p.m.

to cool off the truck.

Parks, Cypress lock
horns over expansion

CYPRESS Bowl Recreations Ltd. (CBRL) president
Wayne Booth said last week it was unfortunate that B.C.
Parks cancelled its involvement in Wednesday’s open-
house presentation of CBRL’s future development plans
for West Vancouver's Cypress Bowl area.

Crab
watch
program
launched

THE DEPARTMENT of
Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
is putting the pinch on crab
poachers around Burrard
Inlet and elsewhere.

By Cheryl Ziola
Contributing Writer

Stepping up regulation
awareness is only one aspect of its
new Crab Watch program, which
was Officially launched April 26 at
Belearra Wharf in a media blitz.

The pilot project’s other pur-
pose is to educate people through
the media about the effects of
overfishing and keeping undersiz-
ed crabs.

Because many immigrants are
also violating crab fishing laws, an
Asian interpreter was invited to
distribute information through the
ethnic media.

“We're targeting some of the
ethnic media so they can use it in
their newsletter,’ said Deborah
Phelan, DFO communications of-
ficer.

“We figure that part of the
problem is they don’t know there
are regulations."’

New signs in English, Viet-
namese and Chinese, bearing legal
catch limits and measurements,
have been erected at both the
Belcarra wharf in Belcarra Park
and Cates Park in North Van-
couver,

If the project reduces violations,
Phelan said more signs may be
erected in other popular crabbing
spots such as West Vancouver's
Ambleside Park.

A member of the DFO’s Fraser
River Recreational Crab Advisory
committee said today's crab fish-
ermen don't care about the effects
of overharvesting.

Allan Campbell, a 3!-year crab
fisherman, said about 99% of
undersized crabs being taken are
breeding females.

He added that the legal catch
limit is four crabs per person per
day with none under the width of
6.5 inches across the shell.

Campbell joined the 14-memer
advisory group of crab fishermen
and DFO officers a year ago to
address depicting crab stock con-
cerns.

Late last month, one man was

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CBRL held the open house at
Vancouver’s Robson Square
Media Centre without the provin-
cial parks department.

“‘We are a bit confused about
it, frankly,” said Booth. ‘‘We felt
we fulfilled what was requested of
us. As a business, we presented
what we felt were two clear op-
tions (of plans).”’

The commercial company won a
licence to operate the ski facilities
in Cypress Bow! from the Social
Credit government in 1984,

B.C. Parks is currently working
on a masterplan for Cypress Pro-
vincial Park, which is a class A
provincial park. :

The parks department cancelled
its meeting with CBRL after the
company failed to present an op-
tion that included planning within
its current permit area only.

The two options prepared by
CBRL involve expanding and de-
veloping B.C, Parks land beyond
the private company’s permit area
or operating the ski facility as it is
now with virtually no improve-
ments.

Booth said it was his under-
standing that CBRL was asked to
prepare only a long-term com-
prehensive plan.

Doug Leavers, the B.C, Parks
Vancouver Zone manager who is

By Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter

responsible for Cypress Provincial
Park, declined to comment on
Booth’s statement.

Booth said he had always had a
good working relationship with
B.C. Parks and that the depart-
ment’s representatives were invited
to the CBRL meeting.

Meanwhile, North Vancouver-
Lonsdale NDP MLA David
Schreck said he was disappointed
that CBRL had not complied with
the request for a plan that invalv-
ed operating in the company’s ex-
isting permit area.

He said that when the NDP was
the official Opposition it was op-
posed to the commercialization of
parks.

But he said the NDP govern-
ment is now faced with contrac-
tual obligations.

“f¢’s very important that people
understand no decision has been
taken. What is under way is a
planning process,”’ said Schreck.

“The debate has just started,
and there will be a public process,
and nobody should take this as
conclusive, nor should it be taken
that the company is automatically
wrong.”

caught with 16 undessized crab
and was fined $200.

A few days later, the same man
was caught.a second time with 48
crabs; the man was caught a third
time that week with 68 crabs.

Campbell said the offender’s

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