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5. The Commission is accused of regulatory favoritism because of any 

 imbalance in the catch between individual fishing areas in the same 

 country, and in spite of the fact of equitable division of the catch 

 between the two national fleets. 



6. Economics of the industry are so unstable in spite of favorable total 

 catches that local economic pressures in the industry make proper 

 escapement safeguards difficult. 



7. The number of fishing days is so low that a further temporary 

 reduction of even a single day makes the operation of any fishing 

 gear impracticable. 



Authorization of Study 



At a meeting on February 24, 1962, the Governor's Fisheries 

 Advisory Committee adopted the following recommendations: 



The Governor's Fisheries Advisory Committee to recommend to the 

 Governor that he order, through the Department of Fisheries, an economic 

 and management survey of the salmon resources (especially those of Con- 

 vention Waters — pink — sockeye) by a third party — the University of 

 Washington. 



The purpose of the survey would be to establish the number of units 

 of fishing gear required to harvest a run of salmon (predetermined by the 

 IPSFC — Sockeye Commission) with not less than 4 days fishing per week. 



Based on the findings of the survey, the Department of Fisheries to be 

 instructed to propose legislation to establish the maximum amount of gear 

 to be licensed for any given fishing season. 



This recommendation was discussed at length on April 6 and 7 

 of 1962 at a meeting of the Legislative Interim Committee on Fish- 

 eries. It was approved, and subsequently arrangements were made 

 between the Department of Fisheries of the State of Washington and 

 the University of Washington for the study. 



The Salmon Resource of Northern Puget Sound 

 and the Strait of Juan de Fuca 



The salmon resource of northern Puget Sound and the Strait 

 of Juan de Fuca consists predominantly of sockeye and pink salmon 

 runs to the Fraser River. Pink, silver and chum salmon runs to 

 streams in both British Columbia and Washington comprise a smaller 

 fraction of the resource and a very few chinook salmon are included 

 incidentally. 



This resource is harvested by the salmon net fisheries using 

 purse seine, gill net, and reef net gear. These net fisheries take 

 almost all of the sockeye, pink and chum salmon caught from these 



