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MAX KATZ 

 and it is our business as biologists to find out why and 

 competent biologists can do it. 



A very glaring omission in the section of 

 the report that I read was the neglect to give any infor- 

 mation on the status of the steelhead and salmon runs to 

 the Nooksack, to the Snohomish, or to the Stillaguamish. 

 Some very interesting information could be derived by the 

 comparing of the returns back to these rivers with the 

 returns to an unpolluted stream in the same general area. 



It so happens that both the Washington 

 State Department of Fisheries and the Washington State 

 Department of Game spend a good deal of time and trouble 

 to collect data on the returns of fish to the various 

 fishing areas and to the various rivers. These agencies 

 collect this data because it is one of the best ways to 

 find out what is happening to the stocks of fish that are 

 their responsibility. These reports are not secret. In 

 fact, two of the Washington State Department of Fisheries 

 statistical reports are cited in the bibliography of the 

 pulp mill report. The Washington State Department of Game 

 publishes their steelhead punchcard returns regularly in 

 their bulletins and these are picked up by the sports- 

 writers . 



Yet this logical step in the development 



