May 2, 1944
THE FISHERMAN
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The scenes shown are actual photographs from the Queen Charlotte area presented as evidence before the Sloan commission by the Fisheries Department. Top picture shows brushwood and debris blocking a creek which runs into Sewell Inlet. The log jam in the other photo (a stream flowing into Hutton Inlet) forms an impassible barrier for spawning fish.
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Ruthless Logging Methods Ravage Salmon Fishing, Inquiry Reveals
Although sittings of the Royal Commission enquiry into forestry and its relationship to the fishing industry have been temporarily suspended while Justice Sloan, in charge of the investigation, has been making a survey of island and interior lumber operations at first hand, hearings are expected to reopen during this week. The United Fishermen's Federal Union is preparing to make representations to the Commission on behalf of British Columbia's organized fishermen.
Facts coming to light during the course of the enquiry to date show an alarming lack of regard for fish propagation on the part of logging interests. Low fines ranging from $25.i)0 to $100.00 have done little to overcome the practice of blocking streams with debris and slash which prevent salmon from reaching their spawning grounds.
In their brief to the commission, the Salmon Canners' Operating Committee outlined several cases where this type of logging had done serious harm to the fishing industry. In Cowl Creek near Boggy Bay, logging operations caused the stream to become blocked and scores of dead salmon were seen in branches of trees forming the jam. Another stream logged in 1923 was blocked in 1927 while at Bones Bay, logged in 1942, the drop in water supply necessitated construction of a dam.
They also stated that after logging operations on Fraser Creek (Gilbert Island, Knight Inlet), where there had once been a good run of cohoes and pinks there was now absolute barrenness. Photographs illustrating the devastating effect of these log jams were presented at the hearing.
Mr. Fairbairn, acting fishery inspector in the Queen Charlotte area, described stream after stream formerly considered ideal spawning grounds as completely ruined and submitted a number of actual pictures to illustrate his contention. The photos on this page are two presented at the hearing which clearly show the damage being wrought by self-seeking lumbermen.
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The attitude of one logging official, the Pioneer Logging Company superintendent, was described by David S. Cameron, Fishery Inspector for the area between Port Neville and Cape Scott. He declared that the superintendent had threatened to throw him out of his office when asked to clear the debris from Bear River, just outside of Port McNeil, caused directly by his company's operations. Blocking of this river had rendered a once important spawning ground virtually useless.
Suggestions for combatting difficulties arising from present methods of logging were advanced by Major J. A. Motherwell, chief supervisor of B.C. Fisheries for the Federal Government.
Major Motherwell pointed out three factors causing depletion of the salmon run:
1. Removal of the timber and destruction of the forest floor along streams which cause a quick run-off after each rain instead of the water being absorbed and held to run off gradually.
2. Tearing up roots during logging operations and lodging them along with brush and logs in salmon streams where they form a jam and prevent the fish from ascending to lay their eggs.
3. Dragging logs down stream beds by operators who sometimes
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find this practice more economical than building a railroad or truck road. Such a method destroys salmon spawn and gouges out spawning beds.
To properly protect B.C.'s fishing industry, Major Motherwell submitted five main proposals:
• Leaving a half-mile strip of timber unlogged along stream banks and around the shores of spawning lakes.
• A comprehensive program of reforestation to restore satis-|actory conditions to logged-off areas which are not totally destroyed from the standpoint of salmon fishing.
• Strict government enforcement of a suggested condition upon all licenses issued to loggers which would provide heavy penalties for leaving brush and logs in streams and dragging logs down stream beds.
• Using the selective method of logging. This would leave underbrush and young trees and at the same time prevent destruction of moss and top soil by fire which results when slash is burned.
• Logging off alternate blocks or patches of timber and cutting the remaining sections only when the logged-off areas are covered with sufficient growth to hold the water.
Taking Fraser Creek as an example, Major Motherwell calculated that the loss of salmon resulting from logging operations amounted to about $15,200 each year to fishermen and $52,800 in canned salmon.
Commissioner Sloan suggested that on the basis of conditions in this stream being repeated a hundredfold along the coast, the overall loss to fishermen in the province would amount to $1,520,000 and $5,280,000 in salmon food values every year.
J. F. Tait, fisheries supervisor for Vancouver Island and lower coastal streams, told how Vancouver River, emptying into Jervis Inlet, had been severely harmed by logging 3400 acres along its banks and on adjacent hillsides. The one time regular water flow was now so low in dry seasons that it was almost impossible for fish to ascend.
On the Theodosia River at the head of Theodosia Arm, swift sudden runoffs after heavy rains caused gravel banks to shift. In spawning season, such a condition would result in losing the spawn almost entirely.
Only a few hundred fish now come up to spawn whereas in former years the number ranged from 10,000 in off years, to as high as 60,000.
Mission Creek, Tait declared, was only one-fifth as valuable as it had been prior to the commencement of logging on its banks.
Citing several examples of streams ruined by logging operations, David Cameron, fisheries inspector, said the run on Hoeye River, Knight Inlet, which used to average from 30,000 to 40,000 cohoes and 15,000 chums, had been so destroyed that very few fish now spawned there.
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