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The District of Terrace recently gave a group of visiting

Japanese sport fishermen a stylish goodbye with a ban-
quet heid at the Bavarian Inn. The group's fishing trip was
. feportedily a success, and mora tours by Japanese

anglers are expected for next year.

Terrace extends |

royal treatment _

to visiting
fishermen.

TERRACE — Japan, it
would appear, isa nation
which has a vast and en-
thusiastic subpopulation
of avid sport fishermen
who live in a densely
populated and heavily
‘industrialized environ-
ment that encompasses
few opportunities for the
dedicated angler. Sport
fishing clubs and

associations in Japan
have memberships which
number in the millions,
and a tour group of
about 20 holidaying
fishermen recently came
to Terrace for four days
to test the local waters
and the creatures that
live in them.

by Michael Kelly

“The arrival of this
group was perceived by
Terrace business people
and elected represen-
tatives as being an .op-
portunity to attract an
enormous tourist mar-
ket, and for that reason
the visitors were given
every available form of
welcome, including an
elaborate farewell ban-
quet sponsored by the ci-
ty. At the tour’s end,
comments from people
involved in organizing
the project indicated that
it was a successful under-
taking.

Jim Murray, sales pro-
motion head for Cana-
dian Pacific Airlines’
Pacific and Latin
America territory, said
that he first began work-
ing on the project under
the urging of North by
Northwest Tourism.
“This is a test group,”’
Murray stated. ‘‘When
dealing with the
Japanese tourist market,
everything has to be
planned down to the last
detail. These people will
evaluate their experience
here and talk to
numerous other groups
in Japan about it.’ Tom
Laurie, Terrace base

manager for Canadian
Pacific, added that the
four days spent in Ter-
race by the fishermen re-
quired two years of ad-:

vance planning. ‘For
this area,’’ Laurie said,
‘it’s a contrast to the
usual .trade. Many peo-
ple traveling through the
northwest are Americans
who set out spon-
taneously on_ their
holidays. The Japanese
are unique, they research
and plan very carefully.”

Tom Murray of the
4M Company, one of the
many enterprises in-
volved in putting the
tour together, remarked

that tight organization is

essential to a successful
holiday for working
Japanese, ‘‘They travel
together, and on the
average they have one
week off per year, Out of
that week, two-days are
travel time and one day
is for recovery when they
return. That leaves four
days at the destination to
fish, and they expect
everything to be arrang-
ed down to the most
minute detail. Skeena
Holidays set up an
adventure for them, and
while they were here they
saw things they’ve never
seen before and did
things they’ve never
done before.’”’

Roy Greening, pro-
prietor of Skeena
Holidays, said that the
group did most of their
fishing on the Skeena
and Kalum Rivers with
rewarding results.
Numerous sizeable fish
were caught under. the
direction of local guides,
including a 22-pound
steelhead, and miles of
film were shot on the
rivers to commemorate
successful moments. Jim
Murray added that the
Japanese are strong con-
servationists with an
understanding of the
necessity for catch-and-
release programs, and he
went on to say that an in-
flux of such tourist
groups would not repre-
sent any threat to the
sport fishing resource in
the Skeena system.

Ginny Lowrie, Terrace
representative for North
by Northwest Tourism,

stated that her organiza-

tion was pleased with the
outcome of the pilot pro-

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 27, 1986 3

Terrace Alderman George Clark acted as Master of Ceremonies at a recent farewell ban-
-quet for the first tour group of Japanese fishermen to visit the northwest. Tak Suzuki

(right), one of two in the group who spoke English, translated for the gathering.

ject. “‘This is just the
sort of thing we’ve been
working toward,’’ she
said. -

From the city’s point
of view, planning direc-

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recreational resources
around Terrace could
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TERRACE

School

District 88 superinten-

dent Frank Hamilton
recently made a state-
ment
parents who are new to
the district or have

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school system for the
first time to register their
children before the
beginning of the school
year. Hamilton said that

. students who appear on

the first day of school
without previous regis-
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ment.

_ Terrace and Thornhill
elementary schools will
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