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DONALD J. BENSON 



this test--by itself, but they did this in correlation to 

 oyster mortality. Presumably they found a rather close 

 correlation. When you take these two factors together, 

 the fermentations and combinations suggest a relationship. 

 I don't know whether you feel this, and this is up to you, 

 whether you handle one or the other. 



The second point is that, as far as I could 

 see in the Federal report, there was a corresponding 

 decrease in the sulfite waste concentration during the 

 period of the strike as measured by the Pearl-Benson 

 Index, again in direct correlation to the non-defects in 

 the oyster larvae. 



Again I am trying to get the issue lined 

 up. This isn't a question, as I see it, of just taking 

 each single part of that and saying one is bad and the 

 other is bad. What the Federal report has purported to 

 do is to put them both together, and the explanation of 

 the relationship of the correlation to that is something, 

 I think, that we have to consider and meet. 



MR. BENSON: I think that as our story 

 unfolds with the expert witnesses, some of this will be- 

 come more apparent. 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: Right. 



Any further questions or comments? 



MR. HARRIS: I have no comments. 



