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JAMES E. PHILLIPS 

 did not work either. At last, five miles of the lower 

 river were opened to sport fishing with hook and line. 



"That worked. For two weeks some 15,000 

 men, women and children were up to their icy kneecaps 

 in the swift wnter of the Durjgeness, feverishly taking 

 salmon. 



"Some families canned their fish on the 

 banks of the river. In all, the fishermen took at least 

 15,000 salmon, and probably assured the su cess of the 

 next run, which will como in 1969." 



End of article. 



It has been my observation that the fishing 

 in the Port Angeles arei is Influenced by factors ither 

 than the application of the forest products industries. 

 These concerns have operated almost conti ni;ously for many 

 years with their methods of waste discharge boing essen- 

 tially unchanged and with production increas'?s being of 

 an incremental nature. Fishing, on the other band, has 

 over the years varied froo) beini>: extremely good to 

 extremely bad, and tliis has been a p-i>; > icuTftr ly good year. 



We have just recen;:ly seen the w.i f. :-r quality 

 standards which ;, he State VJater Pollution Control Com- 

 mission has proposed to the Department of the Interior. 

 I do not knovi how the Comoiission Jtrived at the present' 



