Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg free july cd ii Sturgeon Back in Northern lakes by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Wabowden a decade after a 10 year fishing ban was lifted Sturgeon Are making a comeback in Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan lakes and As if to prove the Wabowden Fisherman Alex Jonasson last week landed a 162pound Sturgeon from Kiwi so Lake on the Nelson River it was quite a struggle to land that five foot says the Veteran Fisherman who fwd a mesh net to catch the fishermen and biologists agree it was Well Over 100 years Sturgeon normally add a Pound a year to their for Jonasson it meant 83 pounds of marketable meat which he sold for a Pound at the Freshwater fish marketing corporations Plant at a provincial fish biologist Don Cook says Jonas sons As far As he is the largest fish caught in Manitoba for some 300pound fish Sturgeon weighing 300 pounds had been caught in the Winni Peg Cook said the once critically endangered species protected by a fishing ban from 1960 to 1970 now seems to be in a healthy the commercial fishing limit for Sturgeon on the Nelson River system is pounds on the Churchill River pounds on Fox River pounds and on the Manitoba Section of the Saskatchewan another pounds of Sturgeon har vested on the Saskatchewan River near Cumberland House is also marketed through the up until the end of last week 15 Cumberland House fishermen had har vested pounds of their limit in just three Bill a longtime Cumber land House trapper and dog recalls once catching a Large Sturgeon that was loaded into a five metre long1 that fish was just about As big As the Canoe and the Fisherman had to turn the Canoe on its Side to get the Sturgeon Sturgeon Are powerful fighting he says and they Are Damn in where fishermen Are allowed to use Hooks As Well As nets to catch Turfeo Ronly fresh suckers Are we always bait our Hooks with fresh if the bait is just a few hours the Sturgeon will move on to their next restaurant remove bait Carriere said Hes also known Stur Geon to remove bait without getting caught and to Back out of the Sturgeon is one Tough Carriere Ive seen them survive for a Long time without a fishermen normally tie up Sturgeon in Willows on the River Bank to keep them fresh until they Are taken to some years ago it was thought that holding them by the Mouth was inhumane and a regulation was introduced to make it compulsory to tie them by the this had to be abandoned when it was found out the fish struggled so hard it severed its John president of the cum Berland House Fisherman Assoc a and his brother have sold 35 Sturgeon this season with a dressed weight of 258 kilograms 570 they have been getting while the catch is John Carriere says he Hopes the Federal and provincial governments will follow the soviet Union and Start a Sturgeon fish hatchery similar to one on the Volga River near the Caspian that an area much like where the Sturgeon catch has been affected by Hydro Power develop Cumberland House is just 80 kilo metres Down Stream from the Squaw rapids Power dam and Many of the Manitoba Sturgeon fishing areas have been affected by Hydro development caviar increases during the last seven the Volga hatchery has released 243 million Sturgeon fingerlings into the production of caviar from the Sturgeon eggs has risen to million kilo the highest since the caviar Sells from to a John Carriere says he cant see Why the Canadian government cant help Sturgeon fishermen modern ize male bastion to be cracked two Manitoba woman will crack the formerly Al male bastion of the Royal military College in Laura of and Catherine of ochre will enter the school next sep tember after completing Basic officer training at Canadian forces base Chil this it Marks the first time women have been accepted at Canadas military the two Manitoban Are among 50 other women who passed the stringent Entrance on 250 of the applicants Are admitted each women Are being allowed into the military colleges under five year Perment to employ women in military roles traditionally assigned to Boot Camp Rigours Beare and Korzenowski were not available for comment As they Are enduring the Rigours of Boot Carrop two months of intense physical Condi leadership survival exercises and learning Basic in fact they have to learn How to Wear polish their Salute those Walsh of cab Chilliwack training is of the 441 trainees at 66 Are according to the failure rate is the same for both sexes 15to20 per Dimmg other All trainees learn to handle Basic weapons such As the fnc1 the service pistol and the 9 my Browning one Concession women have is that they get to carry lighter beares parents Are not surprised at their daughters decision to pursue a military i was in the Navy and my wife was a military Bernard Beare lauras sister Susan is in her fourth year with the sea cadets and is a Petty officer stationed at for the summer with the hocs she also has two uncles and a Cousin who Are rec graduates and one Cousin is in his third year at the military College in i think its just Beare said of his daughters she will be getting an excellent education plus she will build friendships which she will keep for Laura is a graduate of St Johns Raven court school also once an Almate u of m offers walking Tours the University of Manitoba will offer summer walking Tours of its fort Garry the Tours will allow with an Opportunity to learn More about the provinces largest pos secondary some of the tour stops will include the zoology St Pauls College physical Educa Tion facilities and the agricultural con the which will begin at 10 monday to Friday july and Start at the University information 423 University cres Contact the Centre for further blood donor drive gets under Way Alex Jonas san of Wabowden shows off his 162pound the Manitoba red Cross began its 1980 summer blood donation Campaign this week in an Effort to stave off the annual drop in supplies at the blood Bank at 226 Osborne during fall and the red Cross usually has Little prob Lem finding enough donors to provide blood for hospitals in Manitoba and Northern but june through october each the number of donors according to Dan director of donor red Cross policy sets the optimum today Reserve of blood at Between 650 and 700 if the level Falls below there is danger of a serious Acci Dent badly depleting Bema Erdt says that if the red Cross Doest have to make an emergency Appeal this it would be the first one in a Long donors must the Ages of 18 and seventeen Jearolds May give with parental anyone who has had hepatitis cant donate because the disease lies Dor Mant and can be transmitted to the recipient of the pregnant women cannot give blood until six months after the people with colds or the flu should wait for three weeks after their recovery before they City Calendar tourist Alert Jay Kothare will be the proclaimed at worship services july 13 and july 14 at the lutheran Church in fort 200 Dalhousie the Church of Jesus Christ of utter Day saints the mormons will hold an open House from 7 to july 12 at the 700 London Street at Concordia displays will reflect a practical approach to religion and everyday preventive health care for women project will offer free breast self examination workshops to groups and individuals for the the group Hopes to increase women awareness of breast for further Contact Sharon at the weather and Merl Briggs of Washington Are asked to Contact Eugene Stenstrom of Fergus at 2187364533 regarding an urgent family the Briggs Are travelling from Seattle to Cross in a pickup truck pulling a 27foot Mobile our mistake sunny and hot Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny and hot Chance of a Light thundershowers this High near Low tonight near Cloudy periods tomorrow with one or two wind South at 25 High tomorrow 29 to extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba variable cloudiness with Chance of evening temperatures above Normal Fri near Normal saturday and Northern Manitoba mostly Cloudy with showers Friday to temperatures near or slightly below Northwestern Ontario scattered showers saturday and warm Normal saturday and temperatures Canada and world a Story March distributed by the Canadian said wrongly that the salary of Gerald Federal labor minister and former Premier of Nova Scotia and provincial Liberal was augmented from a fund into which payments were made by companies that received provincial government in party contributions by com under investigation by the did not go to the Trust fund from which Regan was Western express five tickets Worth each and five Worth were picked wednesday night in the Western express lottery the tickets Are the tickets Are there Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top for the last five digits and for the last Johns College names award winners Johns College has chosen three graduates to receive the 1980 Colin Inkster memorial Ian Henderson receives to continue his theological studies at marys College at Andrews University in Scotland Elizabeth Adams receives to continue her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Manitoba and Dianne Phillips receives to begin her masters level work in Art history at Yale Phillips also won a scholarship from the University women club and the Snider memorial Fellowship at floating ecstasy has the worlds Best waterbed mattress and it is now on Sale Complete with thermostat safety liner fill kit and instruction while supplies the prices come Down deaths classified death National Victoria Vancouver Edmonton re Wirva Thompson Dauphin Thunder 64y Toronto in co 22 13 v 14 u 32 14 34 26 n 21 ii 29 10 12 10 i u 7 is 12 16 ii 17 u 11 12 17 sunny 31 23 oct Cut u 25 Ctet 32 26 Motly a toddy n u it oud 32 23 partly 33 h Mitty 31 24 Oftle 32 24 july us w5 32 j 25 s a 34 4 to 33 t Lor at into Jull Laru Sena Laura widow of Ingolfur Anderson Ruth for Merty of 854 Elizabeth Road wid Ower of Alice Baldwin Domithilde of 376 red Wood widow of Mathias 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