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ft3toipllgbtdot outdoors discount vacuum warehouse retail and wholesale always a great selection of new and factory rebuilt blue pickerel now extinct artbriggsjude correspondent we have every bag accessory for your vacuum ask about our central vacuum remote control hose we install service and sell come see us every weekend at y stouffville sales barn sat 8430 sun 9430 its walleye time again or to most of the oldtimers yellow pickerel season is open while angling for this choice gourmet fare is among the most o popular pastimes in this province i remember when this golden beauty with the opal eyes had some com petition it came in the form of a slatecolored cousin the blue pick erel those whose fishing adventures take them back to the mid50s can l on business days 4984157 o o q follow the yellow brick road were movin o town of pickering notice of public meeting development plan review hamlet of claremont in january town planning staff circulated to residents in and around the hamlet of claremont a questionnaire survey on future growth and development planning staff now wishes to present and discuss its findings and preliminary conclusions you are cordially invited to attend a public meeting to be held in the claremont community centre commencing at 730 pm on wednesday june 27 1990 a summary of the questionnaire results and a description of staffs preliminary conclusions on growth opportunities in claremont will be available at the meeting should you have any questions please do not hesitate contacting either miss catherine rose or mr tommelymuk of the planning department 4204617 or 6832760 sis bruce j taylor town clerk wayne e arthurs mayor corporation of the township of uxbridge 1990 citizen of the year nominations will be received by the undersigned for citizen of the year for 1990 this event is being held to honour one citizen in recognition of hisher outstanding service to this community persons nominated must be permanent residents who have resided in the township of uxbridge for a minimum of 1 year nominations must be submitted in writing with reasons outlined the person selected will be recognized at the spring water days official opening ceremonies deadline for receipt of nominations is june 25th 1990 w e taylor amct cmc clerk township of uxbridge box 190 uxbridge ontario l0c1k0 summer clearance for offer ends july 1 on all instock frames excluding budget frames and metal frames buy 1 get 1 free same value or less 30 off 20 off custom frames nonglare glass mat boards framed miniatures guaranteed conservation framing regular glass denglas metal frames oval frames not including wood ovals robert bateman 34 or buy 3 and get 1 free we also do stretching of needlepoint petit point hooking crewel canvas stretching select art galleries 13 brock st w uxbridge 4168525010 if b mwv47 bwocksi bloomlmgton i z romp i or losiourruut hours mon wed thurs fri sat 106 108 105 li ie toeiaws kmaflt wider selection of stock frames available at picture frame warehouse 18 wilstead drive newmarket 8954084 remember when this slateblue game fish was listed on the fishing regulations thememoriesof those anglers whose exploits took them to lake erie the lower niagara river or the western parts of lake ontario as far east as the bay of quinte still flash images of this unique game fish yet todays anglers plying those same waters will never know what their earlier counterparts experi enced for the blue pickerel is no more sadly its gone the way of the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon in an era when we should have learned from our past mis takes while fingering the blame for the demise of this blue swimmer will hopefully prevent other species from the same fate there is no guarantee evidence shows that public apa thy government policy and blind ness to the facts allowed a once prolific game fish to disappear blame pollution if you will but that is only part of the problem as proven by the return of the yellow walleye to these same waters in recent years the cold facts were laid out as clear as the 11 million pounds of blue walleye taken in commercial nets in 1956 ironically no one twigged to the fishes plight when the commercial haul fell to a little more than half that amount the following year by 1959 this total had slipped to less than 50000 lbs y et there was still no conservative action taken when the over all take went down to a mere 3600 lbs in 1960 4 it finally bottomed out at less than a dozen fish in 1966 of similar grave circumstances was the fact that countless fisher man went merrily on catching dwindling blue fish with no knowl edge from the powersthatbe that they were in trouble with plenty of yellow pickerel being caught one wonders why a closed season on the blues would not have helped save them from extinction i can recall going down to the dock at queenston below the lewiston bridge on the niagara river and catching blue pickerel near the huge sand piles there the mouth of the same river off old niagara was another good place to bring in full stringers of these same fish evans point in lake erie was also a great place for trolling espe cially in august where you could limit out on big yellows and a scat tering of blues that occasionally hit the threepound mark there are several ways in which the true blue walleye differed from thejbluegrey mutants that periodi cally show up today first it was more slate or steel- based on its dorsal surfaces blue walleyes also had larger eyes than their yellow counterparts and these were positioned higher on their heads making them appear closer together it seems ironic that in recent times we have spent millions of dollars saving birds and animals that we can see on this earth allowed a species that swam beneath the surface of our interna tional waters to fade into oblivion there is no pride in those of us who caught the blue walleye only the feelings of frustration and remorse that we in fact were responsible in some small way for adding it to the list of creatures now extinct