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MAX KATZ 

 (Slide MK-4) 



Bang on the other slide, Steve, and let it 

 soak while I check my notes. 



Now let us take a look at the steelhead 

 picture in the Nooksack system. The catch is lower, but 

 that can be readily explained because the Nooksack is not 

 planted heavily, as the figure shows. There are two 

 different scales, as you can see the plant is on a different 

 scale. The catch is over on my side, and the catch varies 

 between 1,000 and 2,000 fish. The plants are very irregular. 

 The data were hard to find, but the plants in recent years 

 have been 20,000 fish as compared to about the 180,000 in 

 the Snohomish and the well over 200,000 in the Skagit. 

 Obviously the returns are correlated with the plants. 



And yet you will notice in the last few 

 years--now, this is the polluted Nooksack; it is a very 

 small river--the catch has been increasing since 1960. 

 Again how can we say that pulping wastes are damaging the 

 fish in the Nooksack River? The returns are correlated 

 to the plants. 



The logical reasons, of course, for these 



low plants in the Nooksack system--these are my reasons, 



not the Game Department 's--(l) the downstream migrant steel- 

 program 

 head/is an expensive one and most of the fish are planted 



