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1 ' STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTI4ENT OF FISHERIES - EXHIBIT E 



2 with other management practices necessary to maintain the 



3 stocks within exploitable levels has been achieved at 



4 considerable increase in cost to the taxpayer. We fully 



5 appreciate their interest in maintaining these fisheries. 



6 Hatchery production of pink and chum salmon has not yet 



7 proven feasible and maintenance of these stocks is even 

 g more critical. For example, studies of pink salmon in 

 9 recent years by Department personnel revealed that the 



10 adult spawning escapement in certain stream areas of the 



11 Snohomish River where they were once abundant j now no 



12 longer occurs. In I963 the Puget Sound pink salmon run was 



13 the largest on record, yet it was necessary to place emer- 



14 gency restrictions on the Port Susan-Port Gardner fishery 



15 in September to assure an adequate escapement to the Sno- 

 jg homish River. This closure was enacted at the expense of 

 1» permitting an undesirable over escapement to the Stllla- 



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guamish River. Despite this emergency action the pink 



jg salmon escapement to the Snohomish was considered inadequate 



to provide the recruitment needed to increase this stock. 



21 Juvenile pink salmon do occur in abundance in Everett harbor 



as indicated by studies in I962 conducted by the Pollution 



23 Control Commission biologists. Further they found that 



24 almost Instantaneous mortalities of young salmon occurred 



25 in the inner harbor on several occasions during the study 



