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Long-lost fish species returns to Lighthouse Park Tessa Holloway
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BLACK rockfish are back in the waters off Lighthouse Park after being wiped out completely from the Strait of Georgia, the Vancouver Aquarium has found.
The aquarium first reintroduced 200 young fish in 1996 before releasing another batch of adults in 2004 and 2005, but the effort to reestablish the species was in doubt as poachers continued to be a problem. But researchers confirmed last week that the group is breeding, having found fish in the area that were born in 2006, 2008 and even some juveniles that were born just this year. “It’s all circumstantial evidence, but it points really strongly to this group still being there and reproducing,” said Jeff Marliave, vice-president of marine science at the aquarium. The fish were once abundant throughout Howe Sound and the Strait of Georgia; however, with the increase in sport fishing in the 1960s and ’70s, the species was wiped out in the area. Unlike other types of rockfish, which remain in large numbers in Howe Sound, black rockfish are curious and won’t hide under rocks when humans are nearby, making them much easier to catch than other species. Black rockfish remain in large numbers on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is where the individuals at Lighthouse Park came from. The site, Starboat Cove, was chosen See Stock page 3
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A pair of B.C. Bears chase down a ball carrier from Atlantic Canada’s The Rock during a Canadian Rugby Championship match Saturday at Klahanie Park. The Bears, last year’s national champions, lost 34-12 and were eliminated from title contention. Check out www.nsnews.com for more photos of the action.
Ignatieff promises NV navy contracts Benjamin Alldritt
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CANADIAN naval ships will be built on the North Shore for the first time in decades if the Liberals form the next federal government, according to party leader Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff made the commitment on his way to a speaking engagement in West Vancouver Sunday. The promise that could translate into hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars for a North Vancouver shipyard. “Of course we will,” Ignatieff said in an interview with the
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North Shore News. “We need balance. There are shipyards in Atlantic Canada. There are shipyards on the St. Lawrence and there are shipyards out here. We need a balanced program in terms of long-term stable employment on both coasts.” The Conservative government plans on awarding long-term, multi-billion dollar contracts to two Canadian shipyards to build more than 100 navy vessels over the next 30 years. North Vancouver’s Washington Marine Group faces stiff competition
for the work from rival yards in Quebec and Nova Scotia. “We’d need to review the current policy,” Ignatieff said. “The sense of having long-term work instead of stops and starts, I get that part. Making sure we get good value for money on the contracts is important too. . . . We need to invest in Coast Guard protection. We need to invest in maritime surveillance. I want to make sure we have a balance between civilian and military procurement. It’s a double balance: East Coast and West Coast is balance one, balance two is making sure that it’s long-term so that the shipyards aren’t stop and start.” Ignatieff also reiterated his support for a ban on oil tanker
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