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profitable to do so without putting additional pressure on the 

 resource. 



It should be stressed that these recommendations, if ac- 

 cepted in principle, provide for step-by-step reduction in fleet 

 size, and do not contemplate drastic reductions in the first 

 year or two. It should also be noted that even a 33V^ per 

 cent reduction in gear would provide potential savings ranging 

 from $700,000 to as much as $2,500,000 with an average of 

 perhaps $1,500,000. This would permit substantial increases 

 in incomes to boat-owners and share fishermen and would still 

 provide an annual revenue to the state sufficient to make a 

 buy-back program self-financing. 



It is obvious that a gear reduction program of the type 

 outlined above would require a considerable amount of flex- 

 ibility. It is therefore assumed that any action taken by the 

 legislature would be permissive, the actual implementation 

 carried out by the Department of Fisheries. 



6. It should be noted that although the foregoing recommended 

 program concerns itself with several details by which the 

 over-all objective may be accomplished, the legal analysis in 

 this report is primarily a delineation of only the underlying 

 basis for validity of a limitation upon the number of partici- 

 pants in the fishery. Should the legislative committee to which 

 this report is addressed hereafter decide to propose legislation 

 along the lines here suggested, further legal study should be 

 given to the particular details as then determined. 



Explanation for Fig. 16 (p. 32): 



1. Outer Strait area— Canada catch 



2. Outer Strait area — U.S. catch 



3. Inner Strait area— Canada catch 



4. Inner Strait area — U.S. catch 



5. Salmon Banks area — U.S. catch 



6. Puget Sound area — U.S. catch 



7. South Vancouver Island area— Canada catch 



8. South Vancouver Island area — U.S. catch 



9. Rosario Strait area — U.S. catch 

 10. Pt. Roberts area — U.S. catch 



1 1 . North Fraser area— Canada catch 



12. Upper Fraser area— Canada catch 



J July A August S September 



