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ii nii'M i'r i THE VANCOUVER SUN Saturday, March 27, 1993 A3 SALMON 'Historic' native accord outlines responsibilities The next step. Crev said, is a river wide agreement among all Fraser bands and the government to be followed by individual band alloca Fraser River bands vow to cooperate in the protection of ailing fish stocks tion agreements. Crey said native-government negotiations must be completed Deiore tne salmon return. "I know the public will be watch ing this carefully," he said. "We clearly recognize the need for there to be orderly.

well-mansnoH GORDON HAMILTON Sun Business Reporter Xative bands along the Fraser River have signed an accord which they say is the first step towards assuming management of the river's salmon stocks and restoring order to the river fishery. The agreement announced Friday by native fishing authorities commits 97 bands from the Carrier-Sekani in the north to the Mus-queam near Vancouver to cooperation. They have agreed to respect each others' rights to salmon and to conserve the over-all fishery. The accord was called historic by Ernie Crey, of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority. "First Nations have first and foremost agreed to respect one another's fishing territories and fishing rights," Crey said.

The accord includes a recognition fisheries along the entire length of me river. Fisheries Minister John Crosbie, in Vancouver to meet with native and non-native fishers, announced Friday enforcement levels are to be doubled on both the Fraser and Skeena Rivers this year. In an interview before he met with fishers, Crosbie said management agreements were very close to being signed with native bands on both river systems. "Whether we get 100 per cent right." said Fred Fortier, chair oi the Interior Indian Fisheries Commission. Last summer the first year ol the federal government's Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy chaos reigned on the Fraser as native groups fought with each other over fishing locations and enforcement of regulations.

The result was the disappearance of 482,000 salmon on their way to the spawning grounds and a subsequent investigation by University of B.C. Prof. Peter Pearse. More than half the surviving fish had net marks on them, Pearse discovered. The native accord is expected by native groups to guide negotiations between First Nations and the government on fishery issues.

that First Nations are to "protect, conserve and enhance" Fraser basin fisheries. It also contains provisions to develop annual fisheries management plans. "It's what we call not only our aboriginal right, but our aboriginal responsibility that comes with that agreement on the Fraser remains to be seen," Crosbie said. "But if it's not 100 per cent it will be very close." Crosbie said if any group does not join in the agreement "they will see surveillance and enforcement such as they have never seen before." MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Everyone's rushin' to meet him CRAIG HODGEVancouver Son KEPT HIS SHJRT: Jan van Bruchem showed skeptics they were wrong MULTICULTURAL RADIO Founder sells station for $5.1 million 2:30, Gorbachev will attend a forum with 10 high school students at Science World. The students were selected on the basis of responses to a Science World challenge that asked students in effect what single question they'd ask if they had a chance to meet Gor-gachev.

The winners, chosen from 100 Don 't tell Pavel Bure, but I would rather meet Mikhail Gorbachev than him any time. LARISSA BRYANCHUKOVA GERRY BELLETT Vancouver Sun entries from 33 secondary schools WEXTY-ONE YEARS AGO the skeptics told Jan van Bruchem he'd lose his shirt MARK HUME Vancouver Sun For today at least, it looks like hockey star Pavel Bure will have to be ranked as Vancouver's second most popular Russian. Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until it was dissolved in 1991, will rate top billing with a lot of people when he arrives in Vancouver today for a brief visit. Gorbachev's visit has been such a hot item that Science World has sold out a $250-per-plate dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The dinner is raising funds for Science World, which together with the University of Calgary is sponsoring Gorbachev's visit to Canada this week.

Among those who will be meeting Gorbachev during his overnight stop in Vancouver will be Larissa Bryan-chukova, a 23-year-old Simon Fraser University student from St. Petersburg, Russia. opening Vancouver's first multilingual radio station. But he put the VB from his initials into CJVB Radio, regardless. On Friday he switched off the mike on the station's Dutch Treat radio program for the last time.

Van Bruchem still had his shirt and the rest of his worldly possessions, too. He's also a eood deal richer afW couldn't do it," van Bruchem, 63, said shortly after finishing his final radio spot. He put the station together after raising $125,000 by mortgaging everything he owned. "I was so deep in debt, you have no idea," said van Bruchem, who was the Canadian representative of Radio Netherlands for many years while living in Eastern Canada. He came to Vancouver to set up his station in 1971 after watching two multilingual radio stations make a go of it in Toronto and Montreal.

At first the station, 1470 AM, offered programs to mostly European listeners. But as the Canadian government encouraged more immigration from Asia than Europe, the program mix began to reflect it. "At first, Chinese programs only took a portion of it but for the past; five years Chinese programming has increased steadily and now if occupies 12 hours a day," he said. He said he felt it was time to sell out and retire. "I felt if multicultural broadcast-; ing is to survive, it should be in the; hands of the next generation.

You have to be in tune with the listen: ing audience the new and youn-; ger immigrants have different ideas than we have," he said. The station's staff, a number of whom have been with him since station was founded, gathered to wish him well on his last day. A newly founded award called the VB Award in his honor will be presented annually to individuals and firms who make a contribution; to multiculturalism. around B.C., are: Jenny Reicken of (Abbotsford), Sarah Turner (Esquimau), Laurren Rodgers (Kamloops), Karen Dahri (North Kamloops), Sandra Gillett (Kelly Road), Broek Basma (Duchess Park), Helen Zolo-toochin (Richmond Sr. Secondary), Claire de Lisser (Queen Elizabeth), Jean Liao (Sir Winston Churchill) and Randy Gelling (Spectrum Community School).

Gorbachev was expected to arrive in the morning at Vancouver airport, spend a few hours in his room at the Pan Pacific, then take the harbor cruise before going on to functions at Science World and the evening dinner. COLUMN, A15 "Gorbachev was the president ol my country and I think he is a great political leader. It is because of him that we received freedom of speech and freedom of travel," she said in Simon Fraser Week, a campus publication. Bryanchukova came to SFU on a fellowship last year after graduating in history from St. Petersburg State University.

She is among a group of students selected to meet with Gorbachev while he is taking a luncheon cruise of Vancouver harbor. Later in the afternoon, at about selling the station for S5.1 million to a partnership largely made up of Chinese investors. We were under-financed at thp Don't tell Pavel Bure, but I would rather meet Mikhail Gorbachev than him any time," Bryanchukova said. beginning and I remember you guys at The Sun writing that I I Check the Flyers hi 1 "Pfff and compare Vr SAVE SOUND Aiwisubsw A A A A Jl CS28EX1 28" STEREO VNv I 3- MONITOR TV WITH PICTURE VX WLX ml in picture if-IP 1 II Stereo monitor TV with Picture in Jz I tzffa 1 Picture. Watch both programs.

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