B2 - Sunday, October 14, 1984 - North Shore News

THE FISHING SCENE

Fish protector remains in hospital |

n Tuesday, August 14, three fishery officers
conducted a routine surveillance of ahe
Capilano River, just below the hatchery.

It was 11:30 at mght. Three
individuals were observed
fishing in the area. One of the
fishermen was seen to catch a
fish and proceed up the em-
bankment to the trai! above
the river. At this point one of
the fishery officers, Max
Tscharre from North Van-
couver, came face to face
with several individuals on
the path.

As Tscharre guarded two
of the suspects, another of-
ficer took chase after the one
who got away. At this point
one of the suspects, a Donald
William Chow of Knight
Street in Vancouver, began to
kick Tscharre in the groin.
Chow was placed under ar-
rest for the assault of a
fishery officer. Chow was on
probation at the time for an
earlier assault. The case was
heard in North Vancouver
court where the judge found
Chow guilty and sentenced
him to six months in prison.
These individuals had taken
in excess of 15 salmon.

Tscharre remains in Lion's
Gate Hospital recovering
from the injuries as well as
major surgery which resulted
from the assault. Th rity
of the bgatiae@stAs not a nor-
mal event in the hfe of a
fishery officer, however the
events were typical.

Poaching or catching
salmon illegally is rampant

Currently there are 23
fishery officers who are

By DON D. McDERMID

responsible for an area
bounded by Boston Bar to
the east, White Rock to the
south, the midpoint of the
Straits of Georgia tothe west,
and Lillooet Lake to the
north. This leaves them two
officers short. They require
fully experienced, highly
trained officers. Fishery of-
ficers from other areas ap-
parently do not want to
transfer to this District
because they would lose their
isolation pay, their cost of
living would be higher, and
their duties are somewhat dif-
ferent. The two vacancies
have existed for several mon-
ths. A senior fishery officer
said thathe felt they need-
ed 46 officers to do an ade-
quate job in this District.

There are 130 officers for
all of B.C. and the Yukon.
Five vears ago there were 120
officers. Within the last five
years the area which must be
patrolled has been expanded
to include the 200-mile off-
shore fishing zone

During their training
fishery officers spend some
time at the ROMP school in
Regina. One of the officers
said that in his class in
Regina there were 32 fishery
officer trainees, 17 of whom

had at one time or another
had a firearm pointed at
them This was a_e higher

percentage than the RCMP
experienced. Thirty per cent
of those charged with infrac-
tions of the Fishery Act have
had previous criminal
records, while 10 per cent of

those have records of
criminal activity with
violence.

The fishery officers start at
approximately $20,000 while
an RCMP begins at about
$28 ,000. .

Some of the duties that a

fishery officer 1s required to

perform are the following:

giving talks to school
children and arranging field
trips, running commercial

fishery Openings, monitoring
salmon escapements to the
spawning grounds, clearing
Streams and spotting sites for
enhancement opportunities,
dealing with contractors and
developers to head off
damage to fish habitats, ac-
ting as public relauions of-
ficers, arbitrating disputes
between fishermen and final-
ly carrying out the enforce-
ment of the Fishenes Act. In
so doing they must constantly
be checking sports, commer-
cial, and native fishermen,
they must also conduct spot
checks on restaurants and
fish stores in order to be cer-
tain thatthey are not buying
illegally caught fish, and they
must also be checking the
commercial processors.

A typical day tn the life of
an officer such as Tscharre
begins at 8 a.m. and during
the salmon run (July to
November) ends at 1 or 2
am Most poachers do not

Molson's stay undefeated

MOLSONS CONTINUED
their unbeaten pace atop the
Coaches Soccer Ll cague stan
dings as they downed | abatts

42 ino week SS action last
weekend
Carahbam Wood ain the

thirty fifth minuype talbed the
only goal of the first half for
Molsons and Kelly Wirth
opened the second half with a
breakaway marker lo give his
team a 2 0 lead, but L.abatts
battled back to Knot the score
at 22

Molsous were oot be be
demed, however. as Wood
knocked in his second to
restore Cheam lead and mid

tielder Steve Catlett headed in
the insurance marker for the
4? win

Meanwhile, three teams
stayed within one point of the
leaders as Park Royal Hotel
edged Millers 2 1, L ynnwood
Nordi shut out Olympia
Goldvaps 30 and North
Shore Bravos crushed Inter
national Paints 7 2

In other action Delco Real
tv, plaving with only nine

men, edged Ray Johnson
Plumbing 20) while) North
Shore Nissan, also playing

with only nine players were
not so fortunate as they were

shut out § O by Totemcolor

Bravos St. As win third

BRAVOS ST As produced a
spimted effort to beat Aga
Khan 3 21n 1 BSoccer action
at Cleveland Park

After Bravos were up 2 0
part way into the second half,
they iet down and suddenly
found themselves tied 2 2

With Brad Powers Iceading
the team

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game of the season, he came
up with the winning goal, his

second of the day Dave
Duke, beaser Richie and
Terry (Gsaines (1 goal) also

had strong games and helped
Bravos to them third win of
the scason against two losses
Neat game for the Bravos
is Sunday at Riverway
against South Burnaby

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