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They call it “The Blob,” and it’s threatening to disrupt marine habitats off the coast of B.C. and Alaska. The Blob is an anomaly of nutrient-poor, warm water, the likes of which seasoned oceanographers haven’t seen before, says Tom Okey, a Victoria-based marine ecologist and adjunct environmental studies professor at the University of Victoria. It could further affect the pole-ward migration of marine life already occurring along the Pacific coast. “West Coast fishermen are chasing tuna to Alaska,” Okey says. “Fishermen recently caught a skipjack tuna – a tropical fish – in the mouth of the Copper River, one of Alaska’s most iconic salmon rivers.” The Blob began appearing at the end of 2013, and spread to an area covering 1.5-million square kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska. It arrived in the nearshore waters of Vancouver Island at the end of 2014, “where the waters remain much warmer than usual,” Okey says. Okey has authored and coauthored papers in several peer-reviewed journals summarizing the impacts of climate change on Canada’s Pacific region, calculating the vulnerability of Pacific Northeast waters to the effects of climate change. He’s quick to point out that while the ocean is highly variable, there are too many indicators suggesting the marine ecosystem is undergoing significant change, and it’s not for the better. A naturally occurring cool period in the coastal Pacific ocean from 2006 to 2013, known to researchers as a cold regime, is believed to have masked the underlying signals of longer-term oceanic changes. That cool regime delayed more conspicuous changes in the ocean as well
“We need to ... help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.” - Tom Okey, marine ecologist
as our own socio-economic changes, Okey says. Frank Whitney, with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich, said winter winds blowing across the Pacific are possibly being impacted by decreased sea ice cover, which in turn could be driving up the ocean temperature. “The warming of the Arctic and decrease in the cover of Arctic summer sea ice may have caused weakened westerly and stronger southerly winds in the North Pacific starting in the fall of 2013. As a result, warmer southern waters were pushed northward,” Whitney said. Researchers say the Blob is responsible for low nutrients, low biological productivity and changes in currents, salinity, stratification, dissolved oxygen and acidity. Okey says it has also been linked to changes in the distributions, productivity and abundances of marine species including plankton, fishes, mammals and birds. Okey and colleagues, including Dr. William Cheung of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimated that some marine fishes along the coast are shifting northward at an average of 30 kilometres per decade, though other research suggests an even faster rate. But species shift at different rates, Okey says.
“What you get is re-shuffling and mismatches of co-evolved species,” he said. “When predators are showing up to feed, the plankton or other prey are sometimes not there at the same time that they used to be.” Okey says there’s a pretty long list of indicators that suggest that species are reshuffling fast. “We have some examples of past events with similar shifts, such as previous El Ninos including the early 1990s and 2005, when Pacific mackerel arrived in B.C. in huge numbers. As voracious predators, they ate much juvenile salmon and their prey. We need to prevent species extinction and we need to find approaches to help maintain the functional health of the system with reshuffled species, so we can help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.” One type of approach that Okay and colleagues are focusing on is spatial vulnerability assessment, the search for ‘climate refugia (areas of slower change), which can be protected or otherwise managed. reporter@saanichnews.com
Did you know? n Predicting climate change impacts on Pacific salmon is complicated, but salmon are cold-water species in both marine and freshwater habitats, and are affected by changes in nearshore habitat and offshore food resources. It doesn’t look good for Pacific salmon species in the current ocean climate, Okey says. Chinook salmon may be particularly sensitive. As the preferred prey of the threatened resident Orca population in Canada’s Pacific, Orcas may be particularly affected by this warm anomaly thanks to decreasing food supply.
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Palm Sunday events open to all Two Saanich churches, Lutheran Church of the Cross and St. Luke Cedar Hill Anglican Church, invite the community to take part in a Palm/ Passion Sunday Service and Community Palm Procession on Sunday on March 29. The service begins at 10 a.m. at 3787 Cedar Hill Rd. with the blessing of palms, coats and blankets. The blankets and coats will be donated to Our Place Society. Following the blessing, attendees head to St. Luke’s where the service will continue and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 250-477-6741 or visit stlukesvictoria.ca.
Fun run for brain tumour awareness The Spring Sprint, hosted by the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, is Victoria’s Brain Tumour Awareness Walk. Saanich will host the only Spring Sprint on Vancouver Island at the University of Victoria on Sunday, May 24. The 2.5 km walk/5 km fun run is free. The Victoria Royals’ Marty the Marmot and the Rock Bay Pipers will be there to pick up spirits as well. Register at springsprint. ca.
Family forest tea Party at the park Bring the whole family for a tea party in the woods. Join a CRD Regional Parks naturalist for an interpretive tea tasting featuring some local plants. A short guided walk to see some of the plants growing in their native habitat will precede the tea–sampling. $10 per family plus GST. Pre–registration required by March 27. Space is limited. Call 250.478.3344. editor@saanichnews.com
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The two women quietly enter the hospital room. They pause. The man, holding a yellow begonia, standing next to the dying woman nods his head in acknowledgement. They softly ask: “Would you like us to sing to your mother?” He replies in a soft whisper that he was about to leave. The women invite him to stay. He moves to the head of the bed as the volunteers begin singing All Through the Night. As their voices fill the space, the woman lying in bed passes away. “He was really grateful that he stayed because he was there when his mother died,” says singer Mariana Chapman, a member of the Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers. Three evenings a week, singing can be heard coming from patient’s rooms at Victoria Hospice. The voices belong to the Victoria Hospice Beside Singers, a group that helps comfort the dying by singing in a cappella (voices unaccompanied by instruments) and always in teams of only two singers. The core repertoire includes songs of comfort and general blessing, as well as popular songs from popular culture. The group began in 2007 when
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“We just ask them if they want a lullaby-kind of song or an upbeat song and we’ll choose one to fit.” Training to become a Bedside singer is about a six-month process with singers required to take Hospice volunteer training followed by mucic work. The group wants singers who can stay on key, generally sing in a warm lullaby tone, and be able to smoothly blend their voice with one other singer. It is not necessary to have any professional vocal training. The ability to read music is not a requirement. New singers are mentored by experienced Bedside Singers during the regular Victoria Hospice schedule. Members of Beside Singers are required to attend Wednesday evening practices. Doerksen, Guenther and Chapman says there is nothing like Hospice. “I never leave here without feeling so grateful and uplifted. It’s just so supportive and calm,” Doerksen says. Adds Guenther: “It’s the times when it’s profound that keeps us coming back. Every now and then there is something really touching and you realize, ‘wow we made a difference for that person.’” editor@saanichnews.com
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After a nine year gap since his last book was published, children’s author Troy Wilson’s newest title, The Duck Says, has kids quacking up. It’s selling across the country and is on the cover for Scholastic Canada’s 2015 catalogue. “It just goes to show you, you can’t stop trying, you never know when you’ll break through,” says the 44-year-old Saanichite. “I wasn’t waiting, I was active, it’s just that hard to get published.” The Duck Says is a series of sharpwitted rhymes belted by a fun-loving duck as it wanders through a farm. It targets kids from three to eight years old, but is easily enjoyed by kids as young as one. Wilson’s first book, Perfect Man, was released in 2004 and met great success. He partnered on the book about a young superhero with illustrator Dean Griffiths of Duncan. Orca Books launched it from Victoria and it managed four additional printings
and remains in circulation today. But Wilson learned a big lesson with the 2005 follow-up, Frosty is a Stupid Name. It’s about a girl who names her snowman Bartholomew, and was aimed at the five to seven age group, a younger market than Perfect Man’s seven to 12 year old range. Problem is, no one ever met Batholomew because parents won’t pick up a children’s book with ‘stupid’ in the title. The book never hit a second printing. “Obviously, ‘stupid’ was a sticking point,” Wilson said. “I hadn’t anticipated it was a swear word. These are the things you learn.” Nine years and three months later, the lead character in The Duck Says says a lot of things, and stupid isn’t one of them. “I’m not a parent so I had to learn to see things from a kids’ point of view and, often more importantly, from a parent’s point of view.”
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Sun, it was a long time ago,” he said. “All other writing has fallen away. I’m in libraries taking out piles of children’s books, looking to see what works.” Perfect Man captures the many aspects of a great read, about a boy who finds his own talents and place in the world. It’s a humorous spin that stays with in the superhero genre, thereby finding a niche. The back cover even boasts a testimonial from
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“My inner child comes from a time when stupid was an okay thing to say.” Book tours for Wilson means hitting elementary schools, which he’s done a lot and will do again. Each visit is another chance to learn what kids want to read, and what teacher’s want them to read. “School visits are invaluable, it’s truly my chance to learn from kids. I have a niece, and she’s a proud niece who happily accepted my book but she’s entering the teenage years, and you can’t replace hearing a kid’s reaction.” Wilson was born and raised in Port Alberni and left for the University of Victoria 25 years ago. He completed his bachelor of arts and then Camosun College’s previously offered applied communications program, and has been here ever since. Even with the success of Perfect Man he’s moved through a series of day jobs, including call centres. He’s now a lot closer to fulfilling his goal with a career as a writer. Shortly after his second book he wrote his first of many stories for the Owlkids line of children’s magazines (Owl, ChickaDEE, and Chirp), in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue of ChickaDEE. Owlkids does books too, and will
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Saanich author Troy Wilson released his third children’s book, The Duck Says, through Scholastic Canada. Wilson’s rhyming schemes are brought to life by illustrator Mike Boldt of Alberta. print his next book in the spring of 2017. He’s also written for Highlights for Children magazine. During the nine year gap between books Wilson received hundreds of rejection letters for the ‘countless’ books he
pitched. But The Duck Says has reinvigorated his writing career. “I always wanted to write. People won’t remember my opeds for Monday Magazine or book reviews for the Vancouver
comic great Stan Lee himself. The Duck Says, however, is a far different take. It was an idea that struck Wilson during his regular walk along Cedar Hill Road between McKenzie and Hillside avenues. “Of all the pitches I’ve ever made, this was the kind you don’t make,” Wilson laughed. “I put a series of rhymes together, but without much of a structure in terms of a storyline, and sent it to (publisher) Scholastic Canada. They saw the potential to animate it and they did a great job.” Scholastic recruited Alberta
based illustrator Mike Boldt, who Wilson has yet to meet, and Boldt brought the book to life. “He did a great job, and really, Scholastic did too, they had a really good feel for what I had in mind, and they were great in making sure I was happy with the direction.” The Duck Says will soon be available through the Greater Victoria Public Library system (it’s on order). Wilson says it’s been widely purchased by library systems in every province of Canada including B.C., though there are none to date in the Vancouver Public Library. That’s life, says Wilson, who’s Perfect Man still has five copies in the Greater Victoria Library system. “It’s so competitive now, there are so many more children’s books than in 2005, it’s a thriving industry.” The Duck Says is also available at Chapters, Munro’s, Bolen Books, Ivy’s, Tanner’s Books and through amazon.ca. Wilson will be reading the book at an April 1 Victoria Writers’ Society meeting, 7 p.m. at the Central library branch downtown. The event is free and open to the public, but Wilson won’t have any copies on hand. Visit his troystory.ca for more. reporter@saanichnews.com
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‘On the Move’ lacks specifics Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.” The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province. It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue and Highway 1 in Saanich. But those anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an overpass at the intersection were bitterly disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement. “The ministry is committing to deliver key upgrades to reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility along Highway 1 between Langford and Victoria,” the report reads. “The ministry has committed to assess the potential for a future interchange on Highway 1 at McKenzie Avenue.” That’s right, “assessing the potential” for a solution. And it continues: “Preliminary engineering work is underway to look into the feasibility of building a future interchange to help traffic flow more efficiently. The B.C. government will be looking to partner with the federal government and local governments to help ease congestion and improve safety along this key corridor.” Capital investment in infrastructure is no small expense: the provincial government plans to spend up to $2.5 billion over the coming decade on B.C.’s vast network of highways, bridges and tunnels. Each municipality or regional district across B.C. can come up with a dozen reasons why some of that cash should be earmarked for their projects, as many municipalities are struggling with how to fund aging infrastructure. (Saanich is actually ahead of the curve on this – the District banks a .75-per-cent annual tax increase for needed pipes and roadworks.) There’s also the long-stalled commitment by the Victoria Regional Transit Commission to get Light Rail Transit up and running between Langford and Victoria. If we put tens of millions of dollars into an interchange along Highway 1, are we forfeiting provincial funding for LRT through the same area? Questions abound, thanks in no small part to a lack of concrete detail from the province. As happens all too often in Greater Victoria, talk seems perpetually on the cusp of action.
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Making progress on poverty The B.C. government has made its employment. Approved training means training most significant moves in decades for jobs that are identified as in to address the needs of some of the demand, requiring high school and province’s poorest people. occupation-specific training that can The largest financial commitment be completed in a year or less. They is for a new program to help single include retail sales, general parents escape from the office work and assistance welfare trap. There are jobs in health services. 16,000 single parents in Another overdue policy B.C. receiving provincial change is to double the income assistance or allowable earnings for disability payments, most all income assistance of them women. recipients from $200 to Even if they could $400 a month. find an entry-level job, it This gives people a wouldn’t pay enough to chance to improve their cover the child care they circumstances by taking would need to go to work. Tom Fletcher whatever part-time or Worst of all, the current B.C. Views casual work they can system requires that if manage, without having they enrol in training, that little income cut from their they lose their income assistance, already meagre welfare cheques. including dental and extended And then there was the recent medical care for themselves and decision to end the claw-back of their children. parental child support payments That is the welfare trap, one of from income assistance payments. the most perverse government The province has for many years policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era. run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down The new program takes effect in (mostly) deadbeat dads and force September. It will not only continue them to pay at least a token amount income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single it promises to cover their child care parent on income assistance, they and transportation costs for an will at least have the satisfaction approved training program of up to of knowing the children actually one year. receive the extra benefit. Medical and child care costs will These harsh, historic policies then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to were built around a philosophy that
welfare is a temporary last resort, to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option. For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index. A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world. • I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities. I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and bclocalnews.com.
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LETTERS Cattle lot is a unique Think before you buy property within ALR a furry Easter friend Re: Gordon Head cattle lot gets another look Monday, News (March 20) Coun. Vicki Sanders was quoted as saying that she would need strong justification before she would consider the proposal to change Saanich council’s practice, as a one-time solution to the Alberg property of rezoning and then removing it from the Agricultural Land Reserve. She states that “if we change the process for one, we’ll have to change it for all”. She goes on to state that “there is nothing unique about this situation”. We certainly understand why Saanich council would want to follow the practice of getting ALC approval for most properties that are in the ALR. We are supporters of the Agricultural Land Reserve. However, in this case, the Alberg property is already zoned residential and is completely surrounded by residential properties. According to Saanich staff, the Alberg property is one of six properties in Saanich that are still in the ALR, but are already zoned residential. One is zoned for duplex. The other four are on Christmas Hill, and are zoned small lot residential (two are zoned RS 6 and the other two are zoned RS 10). They are all surrounded by residential properties. Foregoing the practice, in the case of the Alberg property, has no implication, nor any precedent setting for any true agricultural property in Saanich, which are all zoned for agricultural use. There is no other Saanich residential zoned property within the ALR that is not already zoned for small lot. Therefore, this property is unique in Saanich. We are hopeful that this information provides Coun. Sanders the strong justification to reconsider her position, and we hope this also helps to convince others. We are very supportive of Coun. Fred Haynes’ willingness to help residents ahead of following an unwritten rule whose criteria have already been met. Grant and Janet Stark Saanich Call for your
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History buffs connect to region
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Maritime History Greater Victoria is a remarkable place for a historian to live and work in. To start with, there are a number of extremely gifted people working in the heritage community – whether in paid positions, as volunteers, or simply as hobbyists. They always seem eager to contribute to one another’s research. Victoria also has a remarkably rich and densely packed history. I am often heard to say that one of the reasons I love this city is that because it was so isolated in the 19th century the people who did decide to settle here were made of incredibly tough stuff. The early pioneers of Victoria were hardy, often fearless, relentlessly entrepreneurial, clever and frequently quite eccentric. They were, in short, real characters. I have a regular reader of this column, a fellow called Ron, who is a local history buff and often sends me notes and comments. A few months ago he sent me the image included here. It is of a tin of mechanical
soap, made by the San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company, which was based out of Victoria. I had never heard of this company, but a quick glance at this image told me the tin was of early 20th century make, given the style of the graphics, text, and packaging. Beyond that it was a mystery. It turns out that being a history buff runs in families: Ron’s son Aaron had done a little research into this company and we arranged to meet so I could hear about it. Aaron is a young man with a quick wit and a gift for writing. He has a variety of historical interests and had done an excellent job down at the B.C. Archives in ferretting out some information about this mysterious San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company. When he brought his notes out, I started to realize that this relatively obscure company had connections with two very famous names in our city and province’s history. The San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1905. It owned claims along the San Juan and Gordon Rivers, near Port Renfrew. These claims were rich in a number of minerals, but most notably alunite, an
aluminium potassium hydrate mineral. According to Aaron’s research, they had an office at 1210 Douglas St. (where Chapter’s is today) and a factory in Esquimalt, at the corner of Dunsmuir and Head streets. The factory produced a variety of industrial and household products, including shoe blacking, blue and black inks, metal polish, Prussian blue alum, plate powders and, of course, mechanical soap. Here is where this story gets really interesting: according to the company records, one of its founders was a man called William Fernie. Fernie gave his name to a town in eastern British Columbia and was largely responsible for the building of the railway through the Crow’s Nest Pass. He was also a prospector and miner, who contributed enormously to the development of the Kootney region. In 1905, just around the time the San Juan Company was established, he retired to Victoria where he lived in a wonderful home on
Oak Bay Avenue called Kimbolton (named for the place he was born in England in 1837). Another name from Aaron’s research popped out at me. The company records list that in 1913, during the big pre-war real estate and economic boom, a man called John C. Newberry was listed as holding 50 per cent of the San Juan Company’s shares. I can only assume this is the same John Cowper Newberry who is well-known in Victoria historical circles and whom my colleague John Adams has researched in the past. Newberry was at the head of his class when he attended Vic High in the 1870s, and was the winner of B.C.’s first Governor General’s medal for academics. At the age of 16 he took up a teaching post at Craigflower School, but later settled in to life as a collector of customs for the port of Victoria. Cowper and Newberry Streets in the Gorge area are named for him. Fernie died in 1921 and the San Juan Company went through a number of changes.
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Alunite Chemical Corporation was bust. This little story demonstrates how interconnected early Victoria residents were. Victoria had a small population, and the same names pop up again and again in a variety of intriguing enterprises. It feels appropriate that, despite Victoria’s large size today, this community of history buffs remains so close and connected. – with thanks to Aaron and Ron Stefik ••• Kate Humble is an historian and the education curator for the Maritime Museum of B.C. Questions can be sent to: khumble@ mmbc.bc.ca.
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Eating properly: it’s no yolk yolks a week was about two-thirds as harmful as Some days I don’t know whether I’ve been smoking. scrambled or poached. Trying to keep abreast This news made zero impact on my six-a-week of the latest definitive proclamation about what egg habit, but it sure as hell sent the egg producers constitutes healthy – and more importantly, over the moon. What’s next, the chicken lobbyists unhealthy – eating is driving me nuts. shouted? Pictures of petrified heart valves on egg Well, maybe not nuts, ‘cause nuts aren’t good cartons? for you … or are they? Study author Dr. David Spence was not pulling Back in 2013 researchers at Ontario’s Western his punches. “The mantra ‘eggs can be part of a University (my trusted alma mater) declared healthy diet for healthy people’ has confused the that excessive consumption of egg yolks – espeissue. It has been known for a long time that a high cially in old folks with cardiovascular disease – is about as bad for your health as smoking. Brian Kieran cholesterol intake increases the risk of cardiovascular events, and egg yolks have a very high choEggs equal “atherosclerosis,” they said. Atherosclerosis develops when your arteries harden like pret- lesterol content.” And, he upped the ante: “In diabetics, an egg a day zels due to the accumulation of fat, cholesterol and other increases coronary risk by two to five-fold.” gunk. Next stop … Strokeville enroute to the Pearly Gates. It’s 2015 and most of this scary cholesterol stuff has just The Western study seemed pretty legit. It followed more than 1,200 men and women, with a mean age of just over been thrown out with the salted bath water. A U.S. government advisory committee has compiled a 60 and discovered the effect from eating three or more egg
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erty taxes, he argued. He warns the inequity of seniors discounts will worsen as the population ages and reform will become increasingly difficult as more voters turn 65. B.C.’s home owner grant program reduces the property tax on a principle residence by more if the owner is a senior – the tax reduction is up to $845 per year for seniors but is capped at $570 for those under 65. TransLink charges seniors $52 for a monthly “concession” pass that’s valid across all zones, while other regular adults are charged $170 a month for a pass that’s good for all zones, or $91 for one zone only. BC Ferries eliminated a major freebie for seniors a year ago – free travel on non-holiday weekdays. Seniors now pay half price on their passenger fare Monday to Thursday.
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After a blizzard in Charlottetown kept the Canadian collegiate men’s volleyball champion Camosun Chargers stuck in P.E.I. for a couple extra days last week, team members were happy to get back home to Greater Victoria. Black Press reporter Don Descoteau caught up with fourth-year Charger middle Alex Sadowski for a Q&A on winning the national championship, winding up his athletic career at Camosun and what the future might hold. DD: Now that you’ve had a chance to savour the victory, how exciting is it still to know you went out on top for your Camosun career? AS: Even though things have settled down, it is still very surreal to think that we have won the National Championship. Finishing on this note will forever be ingrained in my memory and is something special that
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They call it “The Blob,” and it’s threatening to disrupt marine habitats off the coast of B.C. and Alaska. The Blob is an anomaly of nutrient-poor, warm water, the likes of which seasoned oceanographers haven’t seen before, says Tom Okey, a Victoria-based marine ecologist and adjunct environmental studies professor at the University of Victoria. It could further affect the pole-ward migration of marine life already occurring along the Pacific coast. “West Coast fishermen are chasing tuna to Alaska,” Okey says. “Fishermen recently caught a skipjack tuna – a tropical fish – in the mouth of the Copper River, one of Alaska’s most iconic salmon rivers.” The Blob began appearing at the end of 2013, and spread to an area covering 1.5-million square kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska. It arrived in the nearshore waters of Vancouver Island at the end of 2014, “where the waters remain much warmer than usual,” Okey says. Okey has authored and coauthored papers in several peer-reviewed journals summarizing the impacts of climate change on Canada’s Pacific region, calculating the vulnerability of Pacific Northeast waters to the effects of climate change. He’s quick to point out that while the ocean is highly variable, there are too many indicators suggesting the marine ecosystem is undergoing significant change, and it’s not for the better. A naturally occurring cool period in the coastal Pacific ocean from 2006 to 2013, known to researchers as a cold regime, is believed to have masked the underlying signals of longer-term oceanic changes. That cool regime delayed more conspicuous changes in the ocean as well
“We need to ... help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.” - Tom Okey, marine ecologist
as our own socio-economic changes, Okey says. Frank Whitney, with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich, said winter winds blowing across the Pacific are possibly being impacted by decreased sea ice cover, which in turn could be driving up the ocean temperature. “The warming of the Arctic and decrease in the cover of Arctic summer sea ice may have caused weakened westerly and stronger southerly winds in the North Pacific starting in the fall of 2013. As a result, warmer southern waters were pushed northward,” Whitney said. Researchers say the Blob is responsible for low nutrients, low biological productivity and changes in currents, salinity, stratification, dissolved oxygen and acidity. Okey says it has also been linked to changes in the distributions, productivity and abundances of marine species including plankton, fishes, mammals and birds. Okey and colleagues, including Dr. William Cheung of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimated that some marine fishes along the coast are shifting northward at an average of 30 kilometres per decade, though other research suggests an even faster rate. But species shift at different rates, Okey says.
“What you get is re-shuffling and mismatches of co-evolved species,” he said. “When predators are showing up to feed, the plankton or other prey are sometimes not there at the same time that they used to be.” Okey says there’s a pretty long list of indicators that suggest that species are reshuffling fast. “We have some examples of past events with similar shifts, such as previous El Ninos including the early 1990s and 2005, when Pacific mackerel arrived in B.C. in huge numbers. As voracious predators, they ate much juvenile salmon and their prey. We need to prevent species extinction and we need to find approaches to help maintain the functional health of the system with reshuffled species, so we can help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.” One type of approach that Okay and colleagues are focusing on is spatial vulnerability assessment, the search for ‘climate refugia (areas of slower change), which can be protected or otherwise managed. reporter@saanichnews.com
Did you know? n Predicting climate change impacts on Pacific salmon is complicated, but salmon are cold-water species in both marine and freshwater habitats, and are affected by changes in nearshore habitat and offshore food resources. It doesn’t look good for Pacific salmon species in the current ocean climate, Okey says. Chinook salmon may be particularly sensitive. As the preferred prey of the threatened resident Orca population in Canada’s Pacific, Orcas may be particularly affected by this warm anomaly thanks to decreasing food supply.
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Organic Quinoa 681gr
$
6
$
4
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - SAANICH
NEWS
Drop D rop in between 4:00 AND 6:00 PM for a fresh
NEW APPY SPECIAL!
$
Washington “Premium”
Royal Gala Apples 2.20 per kg
3$ for
Florida “Indian River”
Jumbo Star Ruby Grapefruit
$
4
4
PER
lb
3$
California/Mexico “Driscoll’s”
Fresh Strawberries 1lb clamshell
Mexican Grown
Bunched Radish or Green Onions
2$
“Taylor Farms”
Garden Salad 12oz bag
for
4
California “Bolthouse”
Cello Carrots 2lb bag
2$ for
for
3
1
2
“Renee’s”
Gourmet Salad Dressing
2$ for
350-355ml
ORGA NIC ORGANI C
1 Gallon Perennials
$
Selected
15
Perennial
Strawberry
2$ for
5
7 DAYS OF SAVINGS March 23-29
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WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES
Washington Grown
Organic Yellow Onions 3lb bag
2$ for
5
California “Fresh”
Organic Bunched Black Kale
“Photos for presentation purposes only” Qualicum Foods - 705 Memorial Port Alberni - 2943 10th Ave. Nanoose Bay - 2443 Collins Cr. Parksville - 319 E. Island Hwy. Campbell River - 465 Merecroft Rd. Powell River – 4871 Joyce Ave. (604)
ORGANIC
2$ for
4
IC ORGAN
California Grown
Organic Kiwi Fruit 1lb bag
Email Address: customerservice@qualityfoods.com
752-9281 723-3397 468-7131 954-2262 287-2820 485-5481
Nanaimo – Beban Plaza – 2220 Bowen Rd. 758-3733 Nanaimo – Harewood Mall – 530 5th St. 754-6012 Nanaimo – Northridge Village – 5800 Turner Rd. 756-3929 Comox Valley – 2275 Guthrie Rd. 890-1005 Courtenay - 1002 -2751 Cliffe Avenue 331-9328 Westshore – 977 Langford Parkway (778)433-3291
www.qualityfoods.com
7
C ANI G R O
2$ for
6