af herring. in the Gulf and were a ‘ing oom “highly organized chaos,” ag itthas been described = will, for one area but taking the total contains 7,000 fish, 50 million females and 50. million malcs. ~ negotiations with the Japanese «they provide profits to the canner ies which sell | 1c the: J The traditional. summer has come and gone. With the advent of Labour Day, many anglers become weekend specialists. But Labour Day need not signi-- fy the end of local sport angling. For many, the best is-yet to come. The Port of Sidney will come alive with-the wakes of boats for sale, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The first of what organizers hope will become an annual event will feature new and used sail, power and charter boats. _ The show goes from 12 p.m. to ‘dusk Friday, 10 a.m. to dusk Satur- day, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. In a letter to Sidney council, organizer Derck Smith of There. is probably no fishery : ‘like it in the world — ~ hundreds of boats poised over ~-geveral hundreds of:acres of the - “Gulf of Gcorgia between. Van- couver Island: and the ‘Mainland * .: containing up to one ‘hundred mil- | sion fishes As And ins 15, minutes the aniiaal’: “) quota for,that area has been caught.” m ‘and: enormous: profits made. - ‘The fish are mature herring, up to nine years old, four toa, pound, : _ ~ and the target is the female’s Toc, - 4 her eggs, scorned by..Canadians as’ © food but prized as..a. delicacy by’ “> the Japanese’ who buy. up every” “pound. Imagine a typical quota area : which has been designated by the - : biologists at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo as having 15,000 tons of herring on the verge My | {SIDNEY cult to comprehend and when the - pres -determined} quota of the ~ swarming -hordes: is caught, all, of spawning. A ton. of herring This is fishing ona scale diffi- eee fishing ccases. In 1987 the: gillnetters, manned by two men and the skiffs fishing the shallow waters, and the huge deep sea seiners, manned by up to ight crewmen, caught 38,790 tons paid $91,330,000, ata rate of 82390 a-ton tor all lish landed. In 1988, flee t’ s landed value $2 S00. a-ton, “This spring the: catch was more than 40,000 tons, with a landed yalue to be determined throngh > buyers. The herring cate ties also provide Boat show Summer over but keep fishing Sidncy’s highlight of the past week is Coal Island reopening to sport fishing at daybreak, Scpt. 1. The balance of the weck was — exceptionally quict. Checking some of the Lower Island hot spots,.the Saanich Inlet Sunday was hauls day as Alf Betts Brentwood Bay says: ‘“‘The emphasis of the show will be on the varicty of boats which will be brought to the docks by dealers and brokers. from Vancouver - Island and Vancouver.” But to “add a little flair” to the _. show, organizers will. have static displays on shore: “These static. displays will be '- kept to a bare minimum for this year, but we would expect them to west coast of Vancouver.Island, eating up to 20 per cent of. their ~ body weight in a day. a - They are.plump and about 20 percent of ‘the. female’s body.» - weight. in: her. eggs, before Spawn- : ing: begins: "°° registered a 25-lb. from the Stone- house using minnow- now, Archie Van Buskark a 21 using strip from the deep hole, and Marie Martens a 20-Ib. from Chesterficld using a Tom Mack. Brentood Inn’s Lauric Sweenic topped anglers there on Tuesday joes this weekend expand as the show grows in future years,” Smith’s letter said. “The recption of the idea of an annual boat show in Sidney has been very positive and we expect it ike) become an annual event for your town.” Also this weekend is the Sidney ‘and North Saanich Yacht Club { regatta, Saturday and Sunday. Racing and cruising classes will be. featured. ; Roe, roe, roe their boats chaotically through the Strait a e eThe guys at the, station, “the a Department of Fisheries and § said @ - one fishermen. “We. rely on them... @ “We'd like to. catch more but.we § -~ have to have the. stocks next year, By . -Timing is’ everything, for. the: : ‘marine. biologists and the. fisher-.- men who ‘gather: days before: at the. fishing grounds: where’ the biolo-. : gists monitor the’ fish until the roe. is just right forthe tastes. of the. -- discriminating Japanese buyers." “The Japanese’ buyers. are very. 2 tough,. -very thorough. They'll pay... ~ top dollar for the best, but we have * to give it to.them,” said Doug Hay, ~ one. of. the: Pacific Biological Sta-- tion biologists involved in the. study and monitoring of the fish-~ Oceans, they know their job,” and the year after 3.0 “We. always figure if we do ‘well ~ owith the roe fishery, | this is kind of . make or: break for us, for-the rest, halibut, ‘salmon, cod, the others: It’ * “gives. us a. good leg up for, the: “season.””.~ oe There always has: been a herring fishery: on. the “B.C. ‘coast, with catches: many ‘decades ago as high as 165,000 tons, but it was not. considered:an eating fish, and still “The huge. catches ‘were |. /- Continued on n Page | BIL | isn’t.’ SAILORS EXCHANGE | in- beautiful downtown Sidney by the Sea © -. _- BNVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY! 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