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MAX KATZ 



Since the early 1950's the catch of silvers 

 in Puget Sound has been below the average, yet the catches 

 of silvers in the Nooksack is remarkably steady and the 

 catches of the mighty Skagit are right in the same ball 

 park. This is incredible. The large rivers in Washington 

 State apparently, for some unknown reasons, are not major 

 producers. It is a cinch the Skagit is not being polluted 

 by pulp mills. So these data do not permit us to say 

 that pulping wastes in Bellingham Bay are affecting the 

 silvers . 



Now for the chum salmon. 



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For reasons unknown, the chum salmon in 

 Puget Sound has been declining rapidly, yet the production 

 in the Nooksack, while never spectacular, is quite uniform. 

 The mighty unpolluted Skagit produces about the same number 

 as the Nooksack. Again these data do not allow us to say 

 that the Nooksack is being seriously affected or affected 

 at all by pulping wastes. 



The pink salmon is the fourth important 

 species of salmon in Puget Sound. 



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Its production fluctuates greatly. Pink 

 salmon come in every other year or so. I didn't have the 



