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She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. SpayedNeutered Up-to-datewithroutineshots House trained Miss StacheFemaleAdult Black and white mix Looking for a new home New sh limits for Little Buffalo River not enough Mtis Fort Resolution Mtis request catch and release policy for river Crews wrap up work on other res near NWT highways Continued from page 1. Were still well above our normal aver- age Olsen said. So far this year NWT re crews have ac- tioned 27 res. Twelve are being actioned currently the majority of which is monitor- ing for value protection Olsen said. The Dehcho region has seen the most res at 21. Another 14 have burned in the South Slave four in the North Slave seven in the Sahtu and one in Inuvik. Of this years res 40 have been caused by lightning seven have been human-caused and eight were holdovers from last year - res that burned so deeply into the ground they survived the cold winter. Last weeks work to slow two res nearing roadinfrastructureweresuccessfullymanaged by ENR crews. The one re south of Behchoko on Highway 3 - the largest in the territory at 20000 hectares - is almost wrapped up and back to a monitoring stage. The other located 20 km east of Jean Marie River and just north of Highway 1 is now considered under control and crews are being demobilized. 12 res in WBNP There have been 12 res to date in WBNP. ThelargestofthoseisFire4a106500-hectare blazeformedbyseveralres18kmeastofGar- den River on the south side of the Peace River. Parks Canada incident management teams havebeendeployedtoGardenRivertomanage thereandsmall-scaleburnoutoperationshave takenplacetolimitspottinginunburnedareas. An incident management team and crews have also been brought in from other national parks to assist with wildre management. Moderate to high levels of smoke are antici- patedforthecommunitiesofGardenRiverFort SmithandFortChipewyanthroughouttheweek. The majority of WBNP res are in remote areas of the park and being monitored. ThereiscurrentlynorebaninWBNPbutall campresmustbelocatedindesignatedreboxes only. Visitor services have not been affected. A re reaches Hwy. 5 near Little Buffalo River Falls on Saturday 45-km west of Fort Smith. PhotoJasonCurrie By MEAGAN WOHLBERG Fisheries ofcials in the Northwest Ter- ritories have put new catch and possession limits in place for the Little Buffalo River and Resolution Bay but Fort Resolution Mtis Council president Arthur Beck says its still not enough to protect declining sh stocks. The federal department of Fisheries and Oceans DFO revised its limits as of April after consulting with the community of Fort Resolution about its concerns according to DFO spokesperson Rosaleen OMahoney. The new limits for the Little Buffalo River and Resolution Bay - the waters in a straight line between Pine Point and Mission Island on Great Slave Lake - set catch and posses- sion at the following from April 24 to March 31 2016 the daily catch limit for Northern Pike is 1 and the possession limit is 2 from April 24 to June 6 the daily catch limit for Walleye is 1 and the possession limit is 1 and from June 7 to March 31 2016 the daily catch limit for Walleye is 1 and the pos- session limit is 2. Previously the number of walleye al- lowed for catch and possession during the second half of the season was three and ve respectively. OMahoney said DFO reviews catch and possession limits annually and when con- cerns are raised by the community or formal requests for variation orders are submitted. Beck said the formal request was made through the Great Slave Lake Advisory Committee GSLAC on which he sits as a representative of the Mtis. But as of next year he wants to see the poli- cies around shing on the Little Buffalo set entirely to catch and release with barbless hooks due to concerns with illegal oversh- ing on the river. We put that in place but its not enough Beck said. We still have people coming there lling their coolers and going home because theyre not monitored properly. Beck put the idea forward as a resolution at the NWT Mtis Nations annual general meeting last fall in Fort Smith. The resolution which passed unanimously calls for a catch and release system for all non-resident non- Aboriginal and sport shers on the Little Buffalo River. A similar motion was passed at the GSLAC table as well. The proposal would mean sh could only be eaten for shore lunch. People wouldnt be able to leave withcoolersfreezers orjars of canned sh as has been reported at Little Buffalo. We still have to do consultation with the Fort Resolution Mtis and the band Deninu Kue First Nation sometime this summer so if it will go through it will only come into ef- fect next year Beck told the Journal. Beck is also trying to prevent jet boats from being able to travel on the river where nu- merous sh species spawn in the shallows. Whatshappeningisthejetboatsarespray- ing all the sh eggs all over the place he said. Beck said sh stocks in the Great Slave Lake tributary have been in decline since the cre- ation of the Pine Point mine in the early 1960s. There was so much sh in the Little Buf- falo River and also a lot of nice Northern pike it was not uncommon to catch a 25-lb Northern pike in the area before Pine Point moved in he said. While the Little Buffalo River Territorial Park has made it easier for more people to sh on the river Beck said enforcement has not increased alongside the boost in activity. Whats happened with DFO with all the cutbacks theres not enough money theres only two ofcers in the Northwest Territo- ries and ones in Yellowknife and ones in Inuvik. So its very very hard for the eld ofcers to patrol the whole Northwest Ter- ritories Beck said. What we have to do as Aboriginal people is take it into our own hands and work with DFO in sort of a monitoring sh-counting watch- dog. I mean they cant charge the person they dont have the authority but just being there would make a difference he said. OMahoney said DFO is working with local Aboriginal governments to further assess shing limits on the Little Buffalo River this summer through an angler survey and will continue consulting the public on manage- ment strategies. The Fort Resolution Mtis want a catch and release policy for sh on the Little Buffalo River. Fileillustration ENVIRONMENT WILDFIRES