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The Honorable Ron wydai 



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Dear Congressman Myden: 



fty name is Barry Fisher. I an President of Yankee Fisheries Incorporated 

 and also President of Mldwater Trawlers Cooperative, a boat owners' 

 association of approximately 40 vessels who fish for v*iting and 

 groundfish in the Pacific Fishery Managanent Council area and who also 

 fish for cod, pollock and flounders in Alaska. Our meoibers land their 

 catclies here and in Alaska to shore plants. We also have sate members who 

 deliver their catches at sea to factory processors and mother ships. 



Midwater Trawlers Cooperative unanimously supports, and have supported, 

 the fraroework allocation plan that was approved by the Pacific Fishery 

 Management Council and sent to the Department of Connerce In Decanber 

 1992. "rtiat plan was a continuation of the Pacific Fishery Management 

 Council's goals, objectives and priorities which in the past have been 

 fully accepted by the Departanent of Cortnerce until J^ril 15, 1992. 



■me Department of Ccnmerce's rejection of the PFMC's allocation plan has 

 in my opinion created a very large arena of jeopardy for the coastal 

 fishing fleet in the Pacific Northwest. It jeopardized investments that 

 were made as a result of PEM; intents to prioritize vhiting allocation to 

 vessels v4io land their catches in shore plants. Cotinerce's April 15, 1993 

 allocation may be responsible for the cutting off of further investnent in 

 a promising area of product utilization, namely the processing of the ' 

 whiting carcasses and offal to provide a whole series of secondary 

 products from the carcasses viiich still contain approximately 80 percent 

 of the fish weight caught. Recovery rates in making vhlting aurlmi and/or 

 fillets constitute roughly 20 percent of the raw weight of fish caught. 

 Traditional use of this material is to render it into fish meal, bone meal 

 and oil. A great deal of this weight in the at -sea coooponent is dis- 

 carded as waste and hence does not constitute a proper total utilization 

 of the resource. As a result of considerable effort by the industry, 

 Oregon State University Sea Grant Program, and the Oregon Departinsnt of 

 Agriculture, several novel and productive uses have been found for the 

 vtilting carcasses. 



