BUILDING FUNDS NEEDED Hatchery pians the release of 330,000 more salmon, trout MORE THAN 330,000 salmon and steelhead trout fry will be released into the Seymour River this spring by the Seymour Salmonid Society (SSS). It will be the second major release from the non-profit socie- ty’s hatchery since it became a community-run operation in Oc- tober 1987, Approximately 540,000 fish have thus far been released by the SSS, which was formerly the Fisheries Enhancement Society on the North Shore. SSS chairman Don. McDermid said Wednesday the society and the running of the hatchery, which was established in 1977 by BCIT with a $23,500 federal government loan, have been extremely successful: “Interest in the community has been super,’” he said. In addition to raising fish, the society, recently awarded charitable taxation status, will now focus its energies on raising the estimated $150,000 it needs to build a new central hatchery build- ing. . . The 3,000 square-foot facility will replace the two dilapidated trailers currently used by hatchery personnel, Fisheries and Oceans Canada covers the hatchery’s an- nual operating costs, but not large capital expenditures. “We desperately need a new central building for egg incuba- tion, a laboratory, a classroom for Editorial Page... . Fashion .... Bob Hunter Lifestyles.........--.- Miss Manners..... Mailbox .......- Travel ......-- wo. 37 What's Going On........34 By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter . training and an office,’? McDer- mid said. “The ‘wo trailers have been there for 12 years. They’re rusting and ready to fall apart.”” BCIT students receive on-site training in fish culture at the hatchery, and North Shore elementary schoo! children have been involved in hatchery fish teleases. McDermid said the classroom will be used not only to educate students to the uses of the hatchery and its operation, but to point out to them that a hatchery is really only there as a means of compen- sating for the fish habitat lost when the Seymour River dam was constructed. “Ie’s aot the answer,’’ he said. “It’s only a band-aid solution.’ He said SSS will also undertake fish habitat improvement projects this year aimed at helping the river’s fish populations re-cstablish themselves as self-regenerating en- tities. ““What I really hope is that someday we can close the hatchery and say, the fish are there, the Sunday, rain, high 10°C. Meoaday and Tuesday, cloudy with showers. . a 3 - Sunday, April 2, 1989 — North Shore News NEWS photo Mike Wakafield NEWLY-AP7OINTED:, Seymour River hatchery project manager Janice Jarvis overlooks the community-ran operation. More than 333,000 salmon and trout wili be released from the hatchery this spring. habitat is there; they can take care of themselves,” McDermid said. “If [live to see that day...well that would be something worth celebrating.”’ The project to revitalize the Seymour hatchery as a com- munity-run operation was conceiy- ed at a June aA, 1997. saciie meeting org “ey reherice and Oceans Canada and has since flourished with the combined co- operation of the federal depart- ment and the Greater Vancouver Regional District. In 1987, the SSS also helped rear and release 2,217,000. chinook salmon from seapens at Howe Sound’s Porteau Cove and in In- dian Arm just north of Deep Cove harbor. The society plans to raise and release another 1,200,000 chinook this year from the Deep Cove seapens, The hatchery, located about 12 miles from the mouth of Seymour river near the GVRD’s Seymour dam, has released an estimated 1,370,000 salmon and _ steelhead trout into the river since it was es- tablished in 1977. In addition to chinook and steelhead trout, it also releases coho, pink and chum salmon, and will be rearing cutthroat trout. At present the hatchery has about 312,000 chinook and chum eggs, more than 100,000 small coho and steethead and 43 steelhead and cutthroat -brood stock, which are mature fish that supply eggs for fertilization. SSS also recently announced the appointment of Janice Jarvis as new hatchery project manager. -Jarvis, who holds a B.Sc. in zo- ology from UBC and a BCIT. diploma in fish, wildlife and recre- ation management, took over from the hatchery’s original manager, Bill Caspell. The SSS has scheduled a Satur- day, April 29 open house for its hatchery operation. Visitors will be picked up at the Seymour Demonstration Forest parking lot near Rice Lake and transported via bus to the hatch- SSS is currently organizing the second annual Dog Fish Derby on Sunday, June 18, as a fund-raising event in conjunction with Horse- shoe Bay Day. In the meantime, donations to the non-profit SSS may be sent to the society at’ P.O. Box 86984, North Vancouver, B.C., V7L 4P6. Tax receipts will be issued for donations. Local municipalities to cooperate in plans to improve recycling NORTH SHORE municipalities are combining forces to get the multi-material recycling ball roiling. At a meeting last month, the three North Shore mayors agreed to work together to develop and expand existing recycling programs in North Vancouver City and District and West Vancouver District in conjunction with the Greater Vancouver Regional District’s muiti-material Regional Recycling Plan. In addition, a subcommittee headed by West Vancouver Ald. Andy Danyliu was established to present the mayors with the steps necessary to speed development of a North Shore Waste Recycling Program. West Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail, who is also the chairman of the GVRD’s recycling commit- tee, said cooperation of the three municipalities would provide a host of advantages ranging from economy of scale to cooperative marketing. Recycling, he said, ‘‘is an idea - whose time has come.”’ And while the general public is beginning to embrace the recycling philosophy, North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker said it is crucial to the long-term suc- cess of any program that am overall marketing plan for recycled mate- tial be established by the province. “If everybody gets up and runn- ing on this thing then we could have a real marketing problem,”’ Baker said. ‘‘We have got to have a provincial approach to marketing (recycled material). TIMOTHY RENSHAW ~ North Vancouver City Mayor Jack Loucks agreed: “We are dedicated to recycling, but we have got to have the markets.”” In February B.C. recycling companies, including North Van- couver’s International Paper In- dustries Ltd., announced that an international gle =< of old newspa- _pers had reduced the price paid for the product to a point where it was threatening the financial viability of newspaper recycling. Marketing recycled material of all kinds was one of the major problems addressed in the recent Canadian Alliance for Recycling & the Environment conference held in Ottawa. Baker said she had no doubt that a muiti-material recycling program on the North Shore, which has one of the highest returns of recycled newspaper in ‘the GVRD, would be a success. GVRD assistant engineer Toivo Allas said thus far only newsprint is recycled throughout the GVRD. He estimated that between 25,000 and 30,000 tonnes are recycled annually, which represents about 40 per cent of the total recyclable newsprint in the regional district. The GVRD’s goal, he said, was to tiple that amount to between 70,000 and 75,000.tonnes annually and to expand the program tc in- clude other ‘mixed’ paper products such as old telephone books, glossy magazines and junk mail. Alias estimated that mixed paper in the GVRD would provide a source of recyclable paper equal to that of newsprint. The GVRD's recycling plan will also include metals, glass and, eventuaily, plastics, the recycling of which is a relatively new techno- logy. Allas said yard waste must also be recycled via household com- posting or extra charges levied for its collection. He estimated that yard waste makes up between 15 and 20 per cent of all household garbage. The percentage, he said, was much higher during spring and fall. Though Alias said the cost of recycling will be higher than some people might expect, he pointed out that the cost to both environ- ment and existing non-renewable resources of noi recycling is some- thing that must be weighed against any recycling program costs. The GVRD will hold a series of public meetings in April that will invite resident input into its regional recycling plan. Copies of the GVRD’s recently completed draft recycling discussion paper will also be available at those meetings. A meeting for the North Shore is scheduled for Thursday, April 6 at the Silver Harbour Lodge, 144 East 22nd St:, North Vancouver, starting at 7:30 p.m. For more information call the GVRD at 432-6200.