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CHARLES S. YENTSCH 

 That is what we suspected. (Laughter) 



Will you go on, sir? 



MR. HARRIS: The next expert to be called 

 by Mr. Benson will be Dr. Ernest Salo. 



STATEMENT OF ERNEST 0. SALO 



FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 



DR. SALO: My name is Ernest 0. Salo. I 

 am an Associate Professor of Fisheries at the University 

 of Washington. I have been called on to make a statement 

 by members of the Everett Technical Committee and this I 

 am glad to do. 



Associated with the University of Washington 

 we have a group in the college of fisheries called the 

 Fisheries Research Institute, which has traditionally done 

 research in areas concerning fisheries for a number of 

 years. Before my arrival at the university and since my 

 stay there, the Fisheries Research Institute has been 

 doing research for a number of agencies. But during the 

 past several years the Fisheries Research Institute of the 

 University of Washington, under the auspices of various 

 grants and contracts, has been conducting research in 

 Bellingham Bay, Everett Bay, Elliott Bay, and in the water- 

 sheds of these estuaries. The river systems involved are 



