> From a contact in BC. For copyright reasons, only the first few
paragraphs are here. Susan
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THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE, Tuesday, July 25, 1995
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page A8:
POISON AIMED AT NATIVES
Fishing boats hit
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by Suzanne Fournier, Staff Reporter
The mercury contamination of three Port Alberni native-owned fishing
boats is "a vicious act of terrorism", said local natives yesterday.
Police and federal fisheries investigators should try hard to "apprehend
whatever sick individual would try to single out and poison native
fishermen," Richard Watts, co-chair of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council
in Port Alberni, said yesterday.
Watts said three boats wer contaminated with up to half a cup of deadly
mercury spilled all over the bottom of the vessels.
All three were clearly marked as native-owned boats and no other boats
at the wharf were targeted.
"It looks like this sick person was trying to hurt either the native
fishermen or the fish they'd eat, or the environment," said Watts.
"It's terrorism, just like the Oklahoma bombing or tree-spiking or
whatever."