6 - Sunday, ‘April 17, 198% - North Shore News

Insicuts.

Tricks with fish happy

IF THEY EVER DO TO HUMANS what tneype doing to

fish at West Van's state- of-the-
planet is going to need a

» The biologists at the new facili- —

ty, whose opening by Fisheries

Minister Tom Siddon your scribe
attended the other week, focus on:

three goals: MORE fish, BIGGER

fish and HARDIER fish — niain-- °

ily, though not exclusively, salmon.

“Much of their effort goes into new

breeding techniques for the |
burgeoning aquaculture industry.
They develop dicts to fatten fish
in aquaculture farnis and reduce
‘feed costs. They add nutrients to
‘Jakes used by young sockeye as

nursery areas, “Stress (yes. fish suf. :

fer it too!) can affec ci’ growth and ,
breeding, so’ they delve into
psychological effects of environ-
‘ment changes. But their most spec-

tacular work i is in the reproduction ;

area. .

For cxample, they’re the first to.

succeed in making sablefish spawn
in captivity by means of i injections.
To hasten spawning they’re trying
out alterations in the length of

art Fisheries labore atory, the

lot more real eslate, in a hurry.

daylight to Foi fish into thinkiig
the season has changed and the!
time has arsived. They're rescat-
ching tech#iques for producing
. “sterile all-female fish which
mature, nore slowly, giving the
aquacyiturist more time to fatten

: them,/Sterile salmon, moreover,

don's dic after spawning but live |
* another two years or more in the
: ocgan, growing to trophy'size for”
\ sport fishermen. And, of course, :
ithe West Van labis also into:
' genetic engincering to develop fish
i which will pass all the most
‘desirable gencs from once gencra-
ition to.the next.
With more people eating morc
fish than ever, one can only cheer

them on. Never-mind what the fish’

‘think of their bag of tricks — so
long as nobody ever starts playing
_ the same tricks with us!

af eee

“FOSTSCRIPTS: Last week

ONE. THAT DIDN'T. GET’ AWAY. itihh cpiotogist Igor ‘Solar with

‘monster 17 Ib. rainbow trout living at West V an fab. Average weight of.
: such trout is 10 Ibs... : :

increase pales.

ye to or residents are beirig orced to ‘do so. With

‘gs. population’, of 1,100;

the: village’ ‘falls under the —

news — for fish-eaters!

brought some new hape for uneim-
ployed young people after North
Vaa-Capitano MLA Angus Ree
and programs director Shirley
Robertson cut the ribbon at the
opening of the YMCA's North
Shore Youth Employment Centre
at 972 Marine (phone 985-2214).
Director Benjamin Griffia and his
team — who believe “looking for
work is a full-time job"’ ~— provide
classroom training, counselling:

phone-calling and many other aids.

to successful job-hunting ... No .
lack of moncy, for charity if you
know how to go after it, as witness
the spectacular success of last Fri-
day's benefit auction at the Pan,

Pacific for’ ‘the B.C. Special Olym- -

pics. Organized by the Automobile
Dealers Association and co-chaired
by North Van's Marlene Buck, it
put on the block a $20,000 Olds, :
various other cazs, painting? and
advertising time among the host of
pricey donated goodies offered to
the more than 800 bidders -~ and
when they counted the take, it ad-
ded up to around a cool $100,000
.. Showing North Van seniors this

Wednesday, Aprif 20, that life can.

still be a laugh will be cartoonist
Erale Poignant, talking abou:
“Humor via the Cartoon’'. He's

guest speaker at North Shore Keep

Well’s weekly drop-in and lunch at
Silver Harbour Centre ... And it
was farewell jast week to our

~ longtime dancing neighbors when
— after years operating outof
West Van -— the Anna Wyman. 2
Dance Theatre moved to its new
Vancouver home at 927 Granville,

|. phone 662-8846, But the North
“Shore remains Anna's own home. ,

eo

_ WRIGHT OR WRONG: Success”.

in life depends quite a lot on
whether people tike you wherever
“ “yous BO — oF 1 whenever you BO.

HOPES RISE FOR JOBLES
_ grams ‘director Shirley Robert
Employment Centre. ;

ie ea THEIR. Oh wos

_ INSIDE THER OWN COUNTRY

jurisdiction of the. Squamish RCMP. “The detachment
“employs one rural officer, who alone is responsible for
the small. communities that/ lie! both to the north and
south ‘of Squamish. j .
Clearly, one officer, no matter ‘how diligent, cannot
; provide the Righ-prof}e prestige & needed to cover such
_a wide territory.

with the illage: paying
gement is fair.’ ;
| of -the | funding structure, something :
must’, be, done .to increase ‘police. presence within’ the.
4 village. Given | the curren ‘situation residents have little.

980-0511
986-6222
985-2131.
986-1337
986-1337 -
985-3227
988-NEWS

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