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But I really appreciate your testimony. I hope our staff and 

 myself can work with both of you on this issue. 



Mr. Chairman, I know you have to be in Portland in 3 hours 

 without breaking the speed limit. I really want to thank you for 

 coming over to the coast. 



Chairman Wyden. Thank you. 



Mr. KoPETSKi. I hope you will come back again. We will have a 

 little more time. Maybe we will get you out on those fishing boats 

 for a couple of days, get some sunshine and some work. 



Chairman Wyden. I want to thank my friend, Mike Kopetski, for 

 getting the subcommittee here. I can tell you the Wyden family 

 always spends its vacation on the Oregon coast. But in all the years 

 that we have done this, we have never learned as much about whit- 

 ing as we have learned today. 



[Laughter.] 



Chairman Wyden. Through the good work that Mike Kopetski 

 has done, and as I say, Congresswoman Furse, who tried to educate 

 our delegation about this as well, we have learned an awful lot 

 today, I think, and in recent days, not just about this issue of whit- 

 ing specifically, but what it is going to take to make sensible deci- 

 sions in this area in the days ahead. 



I think that your analysis is something that should have been 

 done years ago — this question of really looking, for example, at 

 Alaska and trying to do an analysis that compares the regions. 



Mr. Sylvia, Mike Kopetski says you talk economics like it resem- 

 bles the English language. We don't get an awful lot of that sort of 

 thing in Washington, DC. Of course, you helped us to look at this 

 in the longer view. 



I hope that we can be back here in the not-too-distant future and 

 really celebrating a very different way the Federal Government 

 makes decisions in this area that factors in the kinds of things you 

 all talked about, that Barry Fisher talked about in terms of the dis- 

 card rate, and the extraordinary efforts that are being made by 

 Mike's constituents. 



This has been a very, very helpful hearing. We are going to do 

 everything we can to change the way business is done at the Com- 

 merce Department on this and other issues. 



Unless anyone has anything they would like to add further, we 

 will adjourn at this time. The subcommittee is adjourned. 



[Whereupon, at 1:00 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned, sub- 

 ject to the call of the Chair.] 



