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2 is maintaining channels in several of those very islands 



3 we have in the east to provide a flushing action so that 



4 the salinity of the water will be appropriate for the 



5 shellfish. As a matter of fact, it wasn't just weeds 

 5 that killed the oysters, but these oysters have been 

 7 declared off limits by New York State for years. 



g I am always aroa2ed--and this is a phrase 



9 you used several times--when I am a party to something and 



10 I hear the history recounted by someone else. But this is 



11 precisely what we are going to do. 



12 You raised another point, and a philosophic 



13 point, about when a conflict of interest arises. I hope 



14 there is no conflict of interest. 



15 1 think your point is correct about the 



16 duck farmers and the oyster growers. They possibly, 



17 together with the pulp and paper manufacturers, are the 



18 only independent people we have in the country today, and 



19 getting them together was like getting the sheep growers 



20 and the cattlemen together in the old west. But when they 



21 got together they discovered that they did not have a con- 



22 flict of interest. 



23 I hope here, too, we are going to discover 



24 that we don't have a conflict of interest, because I have 

 never seen one of these problems solved where we are talking 



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