Salmon funding announced

A total of $920,000 provinciai
money is going to 43 community
groups and 22 municipal govern-
ments in the Lower Mainland and
on Vancouver Island fer this year’s
urban salmon habitat program.

The urban salmon habitat program began
in 1985 with the goal of protecting and restor
ing wild salmon and other salmonid stocks in
the Georgia Basin. The program is part of the
broader provincial fisheries strategy and com-
plements the Fish Protection Act, Fisheries
Renewal B.C., Forest Renewal §b.C. and the
Forest Practices Code.

The program has oo components. Grants
to local government support municipal efforts
to identify and protect fish habitat in land-use
and development decisions. Community stew-
ardship grants help groups and schools pro-

tect, enhance and raise public awareness of

salmon and their habitats. This year’s program
includes funding tor training, volunteer appre-
ciation and program evaluation implementa-

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

Hands up

SINGER and songwriter Catherine Nash leads dancers at the Caribbean Days
Festival at Waterfront Park this past weekend. A street parade kicked off the car-

tion. B.C. Fisheries has chosen the 65 grant
recipients and will continue to administer this
year’s program.

Fisheries Renewal B.C. is a Crown corpora-
tion created in 1997 by the B.C. government
to lead the renewal of B.C.’s fisheries and fish-
dependent communities through four pro-

grams that invest in stocks, habitat and prod-
uct d- velopment and diversification.
8 Bowen Ishind Conservancy received $6,000
to assist Wild BoC. with the initial print run of
‘Tools tor Watershed Stewardship Education.
Seymour Salmonid Sectety received
$25,000 te create additional off-channel fish
habirat on the Seymour River (Intake Creek,
Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.)
B West Vancouver Streamkeepers received
S8,0C0 to assess streams and design and
implement remedial plans, contribute to com-
munity planning, and raise community aware-
ness,
BH Squamish Nation received $10,000 to
develop prescriptions for tich habitat improve-
ment initiatives on the Stawamus and Little
Stawamus rivers and Judd Slough.

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