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MAX KATZ 

 sacoe kind of graph. The Nooksack, too, shows the satue 

 wild fluctuation which is typical of Puget Sound, yet by 

 a rare coincidence the two years in which the catches 

 in the Nooksack go off the chart, the Nooksack is the bottom, 

 are in 1961 and 1963. In 1963, the year of the greatest 

 production in the Nooksack, the Federal Water Pollution 

 Control Administration was very busy working in Bellingham 

 Bay. Perhaps it takes a large Federal investigation to 

 bring the salmon in (laughter). 



I cannot see any reason to contend that 

 pulping wastes have been shown to have any effect on any 

 of the catches of the Nooksack River fish. 



So although there is a possibility that 

 pulping wastes could affect salmonids in Bellingham Bay, 

 the catch data clearly indicates that the salmon and steel- 

 head in Bellingham Bay have the good sense to stay out of 

 the polluted areas, and they do quite well. I might 

 mention research by the Public Health Service in Corvallis, 

 Oregon, showed that in the laboratory--and we have been 

 discounting laboratory experiments, unfortunately-young 

 salmonids can detect and avoid pulping wastes and low 

 dissolved oxygen concentrations. 



Now let us turn to the Snohomish situation 

 and take a look at the fishery in Port Gardner and Port 



