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ROBERT I. THIEME 

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Another short excerpt: 



"Available information suggested a school 

 of hake in Saratoga Passage of about five to six million 

 pounds. Bureau of Personnel estimated that the hake school 

 in Port Susan during March 1966 was about 15 million 

 pounds. After five million pounds had been taken, the 

 vessels reported no noticeable reduction in the size of 

 the school." 



And finally a statement by Mr. Kenneth 

 Tapert, who was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Puget Sound 

 By-products, which was presented for the hearing of the 

 Washington State Pollution Control Commission on Water 

 Quality Standards at Mount Vernon, Washington, on 

 February 9, 1967: 



"Since 1948 we have rendered scrap fish for 

 fish meal and fish oil. The boats that have been bottom 

 fishing in the Everett area of Puget Sound have been our 

 source of supply. 



"Last year the U. S. Department of Fisheries 

 developed and created a new commercial fishing operation 

 for hake. In four months last spring two boats produced 

 over two million pounds of hake for us. This year the 



same two boats have produced over one million pounds in 



