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Po core. co-operation
e betier for Saanich Inlet

than park status — CVRD director

VIEW OF Saanich Inlet’s
southern reaches, with Willis
Point at right and Brentwood
Bay in the background.
National marine park desig-
nation may not be the best
way fo preserve ifs integrity,

some people say.

by Glenn Werkman
The Review

Getting local governments
together to review zoning bylaws
could be a more productive way to
protect Saanich Inlet than having it
declared a national park, said one
of 129 participants in Saturday’s
Saanich Inlet Protection Society
workshop.

“A national marine park is just
one of many options available,”
said Brian Harrison, Cowichan
Valley Regional District director
for Mill Bay.

“I hope local governments can
get together to review bylaws and
zoning provisions and co-ordinate
a set of policies toward protection
of the Inlet,” he said.

Harrison said national marine
park status may give the federal
government power over local gov-
ernment.

He proposed that a joint com-
mittee be formed to review and
co-ordinate local planning policies
as they affect the Inlet.

Representatives of tourism, fish-
ing, diving, oceanography, marine
biology, the environment and
parks spoke at the day-long work-
shop.

Saanich Inlet Protection Society
chairman Arlene Box, a Central
Saanich alderman, said the meet-

:

Box said a broad base of public
Support 1s essential if the Inlet is
destined to be a national marine
park.

She was disappointed that
apparently there wasn’t represen-
tation from the six native bands
who border the inlet.

South Island Tribal Council
chairman Tom Sampson said
Monday he couldn’t attend the
meeting but a tribal council mem-
ber apparently attended as an
observer.

Sampson said the tribal council
“would have to have some fairly
clear assurances that (a national
marine park designation) wouldn’t
interfere with native treaty rights
and access to other sea resources.

“We definitely have to get
involved (but) I haven’t had a
chance to hear how the discus-
sions went on the weekend,”
Sampson said.

A University of Victoria profes-
Sor is concerned research would
have to stop if the Inlet was
declared a park.

Monday, Jack Littlepage, UVic
professor of biological oceano-
graphy, said that 25 per cent of all
inlet research in the world is
conducted in Saanich Inlet and has
resulted in hundreds of published
reports.

‘Research pofential
in Saanich Inlet is
far too valuable to
let if go by default’
-Jack Littlepage

“Research potential in Saanich
Inlet is far too valuable to let it go
by default,” Littlepage said. “And
it should be done before park
Status is granted rather than after
the fact.”

The closest area with deep water
areas like those available in Saa-
nich Inlet is in the Black Sea,
located in the Middle East and
bordered by Turkey and Russia,
Littlepage said.

A controlled ecosystem pollu-
lion experiment involving well
over 100 international scientists
during a 10-12 year period
wrapped up about five years ago. It
involved introducing metals and
nutrients to a controlled environ-
ment inside plastic bags immersed
in Inlet waters, Littlepage said.

The experiment posed no dan-
ger to the Inlet — but national
park regulations could prevent
such research from being con-
ducted again, he said.

“People at the workshop didn’t
realize the Inlet played such an
important part in international
research,” Littlepage said. -

He was one of 18 people to
make formal presentations.

Canada Parks Service manage-
ment planner Bill Henwood said
he was surprised by Littlepage’s
statement but could understand his
concer.

Henwood was impressed with
an “almost unanimous level of
Support from all areas.”

For it to become a national park,
Environment Minister Lucien
Bouchard would have to get
involved, Henwood said.

Harrison, referring to industri-
ally zoned land at Bamberton in
the CYRD, said it’s unfortunate
and unfair for people to look at
one type of development area
alone.

“There are others on the Inlet
that will have an impact and all
should be reviewed,’’ Harrison
said. “Our concern about the Inlet
didn’t start with Jay Wooding’s
(ferrochromium plant proposal).”

Questionnaires were given out
to everyone who attended the
workshop and SIPS plans to com-
pile results and discuss them
before another move is made, Box
said.

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