HEARING ON WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND 

 FISH HATCHERY PRACTICES IN THE PACIFIC 

 NORTHWEST 



TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1993 



House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Environ- 

 ment AND Natural Resources, Committee on Mer- 

 chant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington, DC. 



The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:07 a.m., in room 

 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Gerry E. Studds 

 [chairman of the subcommittee] presiding. 



Present: Representatives Studds, Hochbrueckner, Unsoeld, Furse, 

 Hamburg, Hutto, Gilchrest. 



Staff Present: Will Stelle, Dan Ashe, Cyndy Wilkinson, Laurel 

 Bryant, Lesli Gray, Marv Zeeb, Frank Lockhart, Barbara Jean 

 Polo, Tom Melius, Margherita Woods, Judy Alvarez, Jayneanne 

 Rex. 



STATEMENT OF HON. GERRY E. STUDDS, A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 

 FROM MASSACHUSETTS, AND CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON 

 ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES 



Mr. Studds. The subcommittee will come to order. People will 

 swim back to their places. Most people outside of this room upon 

 hearing the phrase "A River Runs Through It" would think of a 

 recent movie. Those gathered here this morning, however, think 

 watershed — probably means that most of us don't get out enough, 

 to say nothing of the particularly demented minority amongst us 

 who don't think of either upon hearing that. 



If the 1990's are a new age for environmentalism, watershed 

 management is clearly the new age mantra. However, many 

 people, myself included, are uncertain about what the term "water- 

 shed" actually means — sort of like managed competition. Other 

 than a river running through it, a watershed seems to be one of 

 those things that no one can define but everyone recognizes when 

 they see it. 



We may not hear the thud when the proverbial tree falls in the 

 proverbial forest, but we know that when the proverbial chain saw 

 cuts that tree and everything else along the banks of the stream, 

 that the sun shines through, the water temperatures rise, the 

 stream banks wash out, and the fish disappear. In short, the water- 

 shed has been very much affected. 



Watershed appears to encompass virtually everything: from land 

 use, to fisheries survival, to pollution control, to drinking water 



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