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Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives 

 Small Business Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities «& 



Technology 



Submitted by Bruce Andrews, Director 

 Oregon Department of Agriculture 



June 4, 1993 



Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on the subject of 

 the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision allocating Pacific Whiting 

 catch levels for all fishing vessels. 



This topic is very important to the Oregon Department of 

 Agriculture and the state of Oregon. In 1989 the Department headed a 

 two-year effort, in cooperation with other state agencies, shore-based 

 fisheries, local commiuiity interests, and Oregon State University, to 

 research the viability of a shore-baaed whiting indiistry. This 

 Department and the state have invested thousands of dollars in research 

 on whiting availabiHty, value-added processing and product 

 identification, high utilization and low waste of the fish product, 



