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2 wisely in the rivers adjacent to the larger centers of 



3 population so that they will be more readily available 



4 to the angler. And another reason, the Nooksack has an 



5 intensive Indian fishery and I don't imagine that the State 

 g Department of Game is interested in supporting an Indian 



Y commercial fishery. 



g These data, which are the published data 



g of the Department of Game, indicate conclusively that the 

 steelhead populations of the Snohomish and Nooksack system 



ji are not affected in any demonstrable manner by the pulping 



j2 wastes. 



13 So obviously they are in error when they 



14 conclude that the steelhead or the anadromous populations 

 are being damaged by pulping wastes. Statistics don't 

 bear this out and biologically it doesn't niake any sense 



17 either. 



18 Now let us look at the published statistics 



19 of the Nooksack salmon fisheries and compare them with the 



20 catches of the entire Puget Sound-- 



21 (Slide MK-5) 



22 --and the unpolluted Skagit River. Now, the Skagit River, 



23 as documented in your report, is one of the very largest 



24 rivers in the Puget Sound. This figure on top is the 



25 commercial catches of chinook in Puget Sound. You can see 



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