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Times Colonist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • 10

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Times Colonisti
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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A1 0 TIMES-COLONIST Sunday, December 7, 1 986 FISH FARMS Continued from A1 STEAK and LOBSTER SF" till. IT "-V MEDALS MOUNTED lXflD OTHER METHODS TO $12.95 very night of the week Blazer crests made to order Miniature medale available Badges of all kind bouqht and sold BADGE KINGDOM 825 FORT 389-7522 LOSE WEIGHT? OR STOP SMOKING? U.CAN.2 RATTENBURY'S HUB CAP" SixcH 1 3005 D0U6U5 NtlTT TO CNOtW TIRf a Cor. Douglas and BallevMe Place I INFO 381-144 IT WORKS' HUNGRY? We've got just the formula! i-i; fSlf THE 8 jSl- The D.Q. Deal is the best hunger remedy around. Here's what you get: mms ST.

HILLSIDE flavourHomestyleSincjle Burger DAIRY QUEEN DAIRY QUEEN SAANICH CENTRE DAIRY QUEEN vnsp, regular rnes An ice-cold 12 oz. soft drink (at Bay) Opposite Hillside Mall at Quadra and McKenzie OFFER AVAILABLE AT ALL PARTICIPATING DAIRY QUEENS some residents, Premier Vander Zalm announced a moratorium on fish farm licences at the end of October. He also appointed a 47 year-old lawyer who had never set eyes on a fish farm to study the impact of the new business on the commercial fishery and the environment. David Gillespie of Kamloops in the southern Interior has until Dec. 12 to hold four public hearings, receive written submissions and prepare a report.

The battle lines were drawn well before Vander Zalm moved in to referee. The fishermen's union, the most vocal critic of fish farming, contends salmon farms threaten to pollute the environment, transfer disease to wild stocks, and cut into already tightly competitive markets for salmon. Salmon farmers say their industry is a clean well-regulated one, which unlike the commercial fishery, is self-generating. In the middle is the fish-processing industry, which welcomes salmon farming as a new source of product, provided it is done right. "We see it as a source of supply outside of the traditional May to October fishing season that could provide jobs year-round in the processing industry," says Mike Hunter, president of the Fisheries Council of B.C.

Geoff Meggs, a researcher for the fishermen's union, says the rapid growth has created a intensely speculative market for foreshore leases. "What the public is getting at this stage is an environmental assault on a foreshore, the loss of common recreational and industrial area and the undermining of an existing (fishing) industry for a doubtful return on jobs." Meggs also says research has shown some farms produce the equivalent sewage of a community of 4,000 people, and this can destroy plants which are vital to producing oxygen for the densely packed pens of fish which in turn could have a damaging effect on the wild stocks commercial fishermen depend upon. The union also worries about the antibiotics fish farmers use to control the spread of disease among their fish. "We could create an antibiotic-resistant bacteria in these farms and that could cause us problems later in dealing with outbreaks of disease," Meggs says. "All we've had up until now is assurances from the salmon farming industry that they mean us no harm.

But if those farms go bankrupt or if there is a disease outbreak, who's going to pay the cost of cleaning it up?" Patrick Moore, the former president of the environmental group Greenpeace, now runs a fish farm in Winter Harbor on northern Vancouver Island. He says pollution caused by fish fecal matter is inconsequential. "If the UFAWU was really concerned about environmental degradation, there are far more obvious candidates for their attention," he says. "Fish farms are the least of their worries." Moore says Vancouver's sewage treatment plant, "with all the toxic industrial wastes coming out into the Fraser River estuary, is causing 100 times as much environmental damage as all the fish farms on the B.C. coast." Moore, who is a director of the B.C.

Salmon Farmers Association, also says the risk of disease is minimal in domestic stocks and the fish farmer's investment is the best guarantee that every effort would be made to prevent its spread. Fish farmers use antibiotics, he says, but in miniscule amounts compared with the amount released into the environment through human consumption. "It is a fact of modern medicine," Moore says. "You could take the extreme position that there should not be any antibiotics used, in which case you would probably be doing the environment a favor by thinning out the human population." He says the association welcomes the moratorium as an opportunity to rid the industry of speculators and establish a more orderly market system for development of farms. Drop in to Dairy Queen soon.

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HEINZ aaa TOMATO KETCHUP I litre JT g. battle mm GR. A BEEF BONELESS RIB STEAK FRESH CUT LEAN CHASE 8 SANBORN jtsnnun nnrrcc ...298 1 18 UAvunu vurrbb 359 NABISCO 100 BRAN 450 54:40 OR FIGHT Continued from A1 FRESH U.S. flC CELERY 59.. GOLDEN DELICIOUS 4fc a apples 99' FRESH SWEET aft ft HONEYDEW MELONS 99L 615 Ti 63 5kg 2 lb.

48 FRESH GOVT INSPECTED END CUT PORK LOIN CHOPS CENTRE CUT i PORK LOIN CHOPS BONELESS CENTRE CUT PORK LOIN CHOPS CENTRE CUT PORK LOIN ROAST 1 COUNTRY STYLE RIB END PORK SPARE RIBS DAIRYMAID FROM CONCENTRATE APPLE JUICE 1 Mtr. 68 PAMPER mh. cat food rarn 398 JELLY POWDER SSSSn! 25 BRAVO CANNED asx a TOMATOES 28oz 79 CLOVERLEAF CONDENSED MAA CLAM CHOWDER 2839 ...69 MAPLE LEAF FROZEN BEEF BURGER WW. BURN'S MIDGET PEAR CANNED HAM a. 9 239 379 The boundary dispute heated up July 1 when the Canadian Coast Guard arrested the crew of the Jay, an Alaska boat caught fishing in the disputed territory.

The captain pleaded guilty to the charge of international trespassing despite U.S. diplomatic pleas to fight the charge and was released without penalty. That action violated an unwritten rule that the two nations would not 3 slini'ifi arrest each other's fishermen in disputed areas. For the most part, that policy has been successful in avoiding fishing wars, notes a U.S. State offi IL JA 1 1 WWW WW ViflJKVa.

JJVXl mission establishes catch levels for both nations. So where the fish are caught in the disputed territory or elsewhere loses some of its importance. What makes the dispute especially sensitive from the Canadian viewpoint is the history of the area. Many British Columbians find the presence of the Alaskan panhandle annoying, since the boundary cuts off almost half of the province from direct access to the ocean. Speaking of the sale of Alaska to the U.S.

by the Russians for $15 million in 1867, Jim Fulton, a B.C. member of Parliament, commented: "That was one of the greatest real estate coups in the history of the world." Boundary details on land, however, were not settled until 1903, after the Klondike gold rush made the issue more imperative. Britain, which then managed Canadian foreign affairs, and the U.S. agreed to allow a six-man commission to settle the land border. With three Americans, a Briton and two Canadians on the commission, Canada has considered the tribunal stacked against it.

One result was that an outraged Canadian government pressed for the right to handle its own foreign affairs independently. The Department of External Affairs was created in 1908 in Ottawa. Another result has been that British Columbians are not inclined to compromise on the ocean boundary today. Fulton has proposed a private bill in Parliament to make 54:40 the boundary by law, as well as by government ruling. But the bill did not make it onto the floor last month and is not likely to re-emerge until March next year.

In the meantime, a State Department official insists, the disputed waters are American, that Alaska fisherman can fish them, and worries about the "potential for a problem." I FULTON: urges boundary law SUNDAY a.m. to 5 OHLY cial. But it has on occasion been violated "sort of accidentally, or sort of "accidentally on purpose," he said. There was some suspicion in the U.S. that the Canadian arrest was a conscious effort to raise the temperature on the long-simmering border question.

Thus it was of some surprise to the State Department when Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark in late August sent a private letter to U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stating that it was not an opportune time to discuss a U.S. proposal to give emissaries the task of attempting to resolve the issue. From the U.S. standpoint, the time is particularly appropriate for discussions.

Officials note that some of the potential fishing conflict in the territorial dispute has been removed by a 1984 Canadian-American treaty regulating the Pacific salmon catch. A joint com- kD vbaLeauwuLL spieiALi id a.m. to 5 p.m. THE ROCKHOUND SHO? 3 LOCAL AND EXOTIC STOKE JEWELERY. CARVINGS AND GIFTS Jeweler's toots, metalt, supplies and book! Soapstona and pipestona lor carvers Metal detectors and 90W pan Rough and polished eemstones Ouarti crystal and other mineral display pieces Rock polishers and gem cutting equipment JThe Right Choice lor Auto Service has nerer been so clear A USE YOUR CARD i service Days 10 serve you -p -nTi FREE COURTESY CARS AT ALL LOCATIONS UiJ THE ROCKHOUNO SHOP 777 CL0VESD1LE, VICTORIA, B.C.

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