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 production in the Puget Sound area will be poor all over. 

 You could shut down every pulp mill, you could shut down 

 every sewage treatment plant, you could shut down every 

 industrial plant in the Puget Sound region, you could 

 ship everybody out, and silver salmon production in 1969 

 will prove to be among the lowest recorded. 



Now let's look at the chums, Steve. 



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You will observe the decline in Puget Sound. 

 The catches of chums in Port Gardner and Port Susan have 

 followed this decline. The cause is unknown, but as far 

 as I have been able to gather it obtains throughout southern 

 Puget Sound. 



Now let us look finally at the pinks. 



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Port Gardner and Port Susan, along with 

 the rest of the State, have wildly fluctuating catches and 

 the fish in the vicinity of Everett do well when the rest 

 of the State does well and poorly when the rest of the 

 State does poorly. 



That concludes my exhibits. The catch data 

 prove that the Nooksack is a reooarkably steady producer, 

 and with the exception of the Port Gardner chinook, per- 

 haps, the Snohomish fish follow the over -a 11 trends of the 



