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continued, PAGE 11 started diving. When he dove, he took photos and it didn’t take long before he realized the fish that were once so abundant in some B.C. waters were disappearing. In the ‘70s,
OPENING DAY - Bernie Hanby is interviewed at Whytecliff in 1993. Photo supplied by Bernie Hanby
Hanby was in Pender Harbour, where he owns a second home. He’d been going there for years and knew of the area’s reputation as a hot spot for spearing lingcod. But awareness of a reputation and seeing the results of it, however, are two different things. “Divers would have these meets to scout who could spear more fish and where. And I came upon it and never took a photo, which I regret to this day. There was 2000 pounds of dead fish from one of those events,” he says, angered still. “There’s no sport in that.” Something had to be done. In 1985, he helped set up the Marine Life Sanctuary Society, which, eventually came two work with Paisley, Nightingale and others on Whytecliff after failing to establish a marine protected area in Gabriola Pass a few years earlier. Since 1993, the society has had its ups and downs, suffering from fluctuating membership numbers. People like to see results, Hanby says, and after their attempts to work in Gabriola Pass, members walked away frustrated from the failure. But a resurgence is in the works, Hanby adds with a proud smile, as new blood has begun to join again. “The key for me has always been to get support for marine protected areas. And rockfish are the indicative species of why it’s important. We have vacuumed the Georgia Strait and all up the coast. But most people are not exercised by the loss of these fish,” says Hanby. For me, it’s absolutely dramatic.”
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for a group then exploring wholly unchartered policy. “It is a pseudo marine protected area but it remains one of a very few places in Canada that has a complete fishing closure,” says Sabine Jessen, the national manager of the Oceans Program with Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. “Whytecliff will still come out as a significant area.” A lesson learned from the project — one that informs CPAWS’s current work in the field — is the importance of coordinating long-term fisheries closures where possible. A general fisheries moratorium, the kind Whytecliff enjoys, can be lifted at any time. Longer closures bring more stability to the movement. In others locations, Jessen says a zoned approach to marine protected areas may help in getting certain areas of marine life
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protected. For instance, in a large marine protected area, certain parts of it could be designated no-take and others not. Everything can’t be one big marine protected area, admits Jessen, with a laugh. And it doesn’t have to be. This year, she says CPAWS is running a campaign dubbed 12 x 2012, an initiative that aims to earmark 12 sites for marine protected areas by year’s end. “All of them will have a no-take component to them,” says Jessen. “And we’re still not doing as much as we should be doing.” Whytecliff Park will be the location of an Oceans Day celebration June 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Various speakers, vessel displays and family-friendly activities will be part of the event.
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