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1 STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES - EXHIBIT E 



2 larvae bioassay \/ indicate the problem of water pollution 



3 TT Information Bulletin, Proposed Water 



4 Quality Standards for Puget Sound waters north of Port 



5 Townsend and Mukilteo, the Skagit River, Sumas River. 

 Mount Vernon, Washington, February 9j 1967, Tables VII 

 and XII . Washington Pollution Control Commission. 



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g in north Puget Sound is by no means solved. (Selected 



9 references to the water pollution problems in north Puget 



10 Sound are given in Appendix l), 



11 We offer our compliments to the Washington 

 Pollution Control Commission and its staff for their work 

 in initiating the water quality standards proposed for 



14 the marine, estuarial and fresh waters being considered 



15 at this hearing. We feel the proposed standards will 

 Ig generally meet the water-use needs of food fish and shell- 

 ly fish with some exceptions. Our present recommended changes 



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or additions, which we feel more adequately consider the 

 biological aspects, are summarized herein (Tables l4 and 

 15). .... . • 



21 ' The complex interrelationship of fish and 



22 other aquatic organisms and their environment is not yet 



23 fully understood, but the total environment concept re- 



24 gardlng aquatic organisms must be recognized. Therefore 



25 it is realized that water quality standards now recommended 



