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migrants. This also suggests that other incidental salmonids 

 in the area would not suffer any deleterious effect. 



" 7. The fiber deposits have stabilized as to 

 area, depth and organic content. The oxygen content of 

 the water in the area of the deposits compares favorably 

 with the bottom waters of the Strait of Juan de Puca. 



"8. It is not realistic or appropriate to 

 attempt to apply a single classification or identical 

 standards to all the waters under consideration at this 

 hearing. Nor are all the uses listed necessarily common 

 uses to all these waters. 



" Table 1 on Page 13 of the Information Bulletin 

 lists the same four present proposed uses for all the waters 

 from the mouth of the Hoh River to Marrowstone Point: (l) 

 Bathing, Swimming and Recreation; (2) Growth and Propagation 

 of Pish and Other Aquatic Life; (3) Shellfish growth and 

 propagation; and (4) Industrial Water Supply. This lumps 

 together under a single set of criteria widely divergent 

 and varying biological communities requiring different 

 chemical and physical environments. It treats as one and 

 the same open beach environments, inland waters, bays and 

 estuaries. It fails to differentiate between areas used 

 primarily for recreation and areas where recreational use 

 is negligible but where the existence and vitality of the 



