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Restoring 



Board of Directors 



Chairman 

 Jim Youngren 



Real Estate Developer S 

 Private Hatchery Owner 



William R. Allen 



Chatrman 



Jamestown Klallam Tritx 



G. Ross Heath, Ph.D. 



Dean. College ol Ocean i 



Fisheries Sciences 

 University at Washington 



Doug Henderson 



Executive Director 

 Western States 

 Petroleum Association 



Jerry Hermanson 



President 



The Hermanson Corporation 



Jack Larsen 



Vice President 



Office of the Environment 



Weyerhaeuser Company 



William G. Reed 



Chairman 



Simpson Investment 

 Company 



Bugene Schermer 



Vice President. Instruction 

 Grays Hart>or College 



Holland Schmitten 



Northwest Regional Director 

 National Marine 

 Fisheries Service 



Robert H. Schultz 



President 



Schultz Furniture, Inc 



Executive Director 

 John A. Sayre 



Testimony of John A. Sayre, Executive Director of Long 

 Live the Kings, given at a hearing in Washington D.C. 

 on March 9, 1993 before the U.S. House of 

 Representative's Subcommittee on Environment and 

 Natural Resources. The subject is the potential role 

 of hatchery facilities in the recovery of naturally 

 spawning salmon populations. The following comments 

 should address most of the specific questions the 

 Subcommittee members asked. 



RESTORATION PROJECTS FOR NORTHWEST SALMON 



If the Northwest is to once again have a bounty of 

 salmon, restoration of damaged runs and habitat must be 

 a priority for all salmon advocates. The hard facts 

 are: 



. most of the rivers are dammed, 



. most of the watersheds are logged, 



. most of the water is appropriated 



While it is essential to continue efforts that protect 

 remaining pristine habitat and save wild salmon stocks 

 that are in danger of disappearing, the future lies in 

 restoration. We need to fix a system that is broken 

 biologically and mismanaged politically. 



Development of a restoration strategy requires a vision 

 of what we want. Considerable damage has been done to 

 Northwest salmon. But we forget that they are one of 

 the world's greatest renewable resources, one that has 

 displayed remarkable hardiness, survivability, and 

 adaptability over the centuries. Only 15 years ago 

 these fish supported a regional fishery that attracted 

 anglers from around the world. Salmon were the 

 llfeblood of thriving coastal communities. 



Long Live the 

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Kings (LLTK) believes that salmon can 

 restored to such levels. Our goal is a 

 ourlshlng year-round fishery that 

 s hundreds of thousands of visitors to 

 eturns hundreds of millions of dollars to 

 economy. This can be done by protecting 

 wild runs, and by applying Innovative 

 ams that can support viable 

 Ibal, and sports fisheries without 

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