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ERNEST 0. SALO 

 Are there any comments or questions? 

 MR. HARRIS: I would like to ask Dr. Sale 

 if you would give us a--give me, at least, a better idea 

 of the correlation between your migration studies in 

 Elliott Bay as they relate to Bellingham or the other 

 areas of investigation? 



DR. SALO: The only evidence we have is 

 those fish that we have marked. Otherwise we had no idea 

 what we were looking at except the tow netting in Everett 

 Bay also indicated that--the infrequencies of the fish 

 indicated that there was a new group going through all 

 the time. The migration patterns, the fish moved down- 

 stream into the estuary the same time of the year, in May, 

 remained in the estuary in Elliott Bay and in Bellingham 

 Bay at least through June, moved out into deeper water and 

 became unavailable to our gear. 



The migration pattern in Everett Bay appears 

 to be different. They appear to move out very rapidly, 

 they are available for a day or two only, and then move 

 out into deeper waters and other parts of the sound into 

 Elliott Bay. We recovered more Everett Bay marks in 

 Elliott Bay than we did in Everett Bay. 



MR. HARRIS: Thank you. 



DR. SALO: Now, as for determining mortality rates. 



