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THOMAS SAUNDERS ENGLISH 

 results of my trawling research in Port Gardner, including 

 catch records of the Washington State Department of 

 Fisheries, show that the English sole fishery there is 

 the best and most productive in Puget Sound. At the 

 hearings in Mount Vernon I heard statements from the 

 commercial trawlers who fish for a livelihood in Port 

 Gardner. They reported that the fishing was very good and 

 had never been better. Therefore, I am at a loss to under- 

 stand how there can be extensive damage to the English sole 

 in Port Gardner . 



The conclusion in the Federal report about 

 the English sole in Port Gar dner_, which I believe to be 

 totally misleading, is a conjecture based on English sole 

 egg bioassay studies. The studies were carried out by 

 Dr. Harold Berkson of the FWPCA. They were extended by 

 his colleague Marvin Allum. Their work involved holding 

 artificially spawned eggs of the English sole in test 

 solutions of sulfite waste liquor. The SWL was obtained 

 from a mill and diluted over a range of concentrations as 

 determined by PBI measurements. The results of Dr. Berkson 

 show that very high concentrations of SWL can damage 

 artificially spawned English sole eggs under the conditions 

 of his experiments. 



The Federal report suggests "a critical 



