JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FEDERAL AND STATE CONFEREES 

 "The studies regarding the English sole 

 dealt mostly with the toxicity that sulfite waste liquor 

 exhibited toward the development of the eggs. The material 

 presented in opposition to these findings included quo- 

 tations from commercial fishermen who fish for sole in 

 the Everett area, and a bioassay study using 24 flatfish 

 eggs which had been collected from Port Gardner. We con- 

 clude thatj since English sole are known to migrate for 

 many miles during their growth stages, the presence of 

 commercial quantities of adult sole in an area is not 

 necessarily indication of good egg survival in that area. 

 The report's bioassay data showed that a reduction of 

 sulfite waste liquor in these areas would increase the 

 number of English sole eggs developing properly. We 

 cannot consider biological information obtained by using 

 only 24 flatfish eggs from Port Gardner to be sufficient 

 to refute the report's findings. 



"As in the discussion on the differences 

 of opinion on the English sole egg studies, the data 

 presented to refute the study's conclusions that naturally 

 migrating fingerling salmon were endangered in the inter- 

 harbor areas cannot be correlated with the data used to 

 arrive at those conclusions. Fish (fingerling salmon) 

 were held in boxes in areas known to be used as migration 



