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FRIDAY, November 21, 2014
Volume 9 Issue 20
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Fisheries advocate honoured
Cubs and moose rescued…
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TERRACE - Provincial conservation officer Ryan Gordon with two grizzly cubs rescued in the Kitimat area several weeks ago. Conservation officers also rescued a moose calf. Conservation officer Gareth Scrivner of the North Coast Zone, which includes Terrace and Kitimat, said that officers were called out to a dead grizzly sow near Kitimat and successfully trapped her two cubs. The male and female cub were sent for rehabilitation to Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in Smithers. “As we haven’t had any indication they have been eating garbage, they met the criteria for rehabilitation,” he said. The grizzly sow was found dead but it wasn’t clear how she died as an initial field post-mortem from the officers didn’t determine anything definite, he added. “I suspected she had been hit by traffic as it was off the Alcan road and that is very busy at shift change, but the guys didn’t find any signs of impact or broken bones,” said Scrivner. Officers also freed a moose calf that had become trapped in a wolf snare after tranquilizing it. “Somehow the moose ended up getting caught up in the snare even though it hadn’t been set, but was hanging up in a tree ready for use later in the trapping season,” said Scrivner, adding that wolf snares are legal for registered trappers to use on their trap line, which was the case here.
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TERRACE - Northwest anglers, government officials, and friends and family of Tom Protheroe gathered to honour the well-known fisheries advocate as he received the 2014 National Recreational Fisheries Award Nov. 15. Calling Protheroe “an incredible advocate, an incredible individual, and someone I truly call a friend,” area director of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Mel Kotyk presented Protheroe with the award, in the form of a plaque, on behalf of federal fisheries minister Gail Shea. Kotyk highlighted Protheroe’s mentorship and teaching abilities, his ability to collaborate and negotiate, as well as his many accomplishments and positions held over his 40-plus year career, noting the honour “is not just because of what you’re done, it’s because of who you are.” In his acceptance speech, Protheroe noted that “to me, our having a national recreational fisheries awards process confirms indirectly that the federal government, through the minister of fisheries, recognizes the value of recreational angling – both monetarily and socially. “It also indirectly recognizes that recreational angling is the way in which Canadian public accesses our common property, fish resources,” he continued. Protheroe said the award is just as much for the people he’s worked with as it is his from his years of work.
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