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I atn attaching a letter from Ken Hilderbcand, OSU Sea Food Technologist, 

 which details sane of these specific uses and names the companies 

 involved. 



These other uses are the production of hydrolyzed products which are 

 superb natural and organic fertilizers with a broad spectrum of uses 

 ranging from fertilizers for container gardens ^d small private gardens 

 to applications of huge volume for large agricultural crops. Hydrolyzed 

 products release their vital ingredients, namely nitrogen, evenly over a 

 long period and hence constitute superior nutritive value as opposed to 

 chemical fertilizers which often release most of their nutrients in a 

 short three week to one month period and which leave chemical residues in 

 the soil. 



Another use for the secondarily processed whiting is the provision of 

 supplemental animal rations for dairy and beef cattle and poultry. The 

 products analyzed and test marketed to date show superior characteristics 

 \fn&n ccxnpared with fish meal. 



Another use with great potential for the Pacific Northwest and perhaps 

 indeed for the nation is the utilization of whiting carcasses as a prime 

 ingredient in conposted materials for both fertilizers and the remediation 

 of soils heavily laden with toxic wastes. Considerable research from the 

 Sea Grant Program and other parties at both Washington State University 

 and Oregon State University deoDonstrates that v^iting carcasses mixed with 

 other wastes such as seed grass straw, wood ash fran saw mills, and non- 

 burnable forest products detritus can produce superior fertilizers and a 

 remedial treatment for soils heavy in toxic wastes. It is obvious to us 

 that such usage has great social as well as economic benefits. Without 

 the whiting carcass waste there is no other readily available source of 

 fish wastes in sufficient voluaa to manufaurture these products. 



I would now like to turn to question one in Ccmgressman's Wyden's letter 

 in which he asks for our concerns regarding impact of the whiting 

 allocation on small fishing boats and coastal shorebased processors. 



Ihe abrupt about-face viiich the Department of Ccmnerce in tiie Clinton 

 Administration has taken will result in a loss of markets of whiting for 

 eleven member boats of my Association and a loss of some 550-660 

 shorebased processing plant jobs. When one reniadbers that the incoma 

 multiplier for groundfish landed across the dock is 2.7:1 it is easy to 

 confute that the loss of sane $30 million in payment for fish will turn 

 into a total loss ranging fran $65 to $75 million dollars spread through- 

 out local shipyards, fuel depots, chandler shops, net makers, grocery 

 stores, restaurants, coastal port merchants, etc. etc. 



It should be remanbered that the coastal ports are undergoing severe 

 econanic contraction as a result of forest products industry decline. 

 There is little else to take up the slack in the coastal ports' econonies 

 except tourism v^ich is not known for broad income distribution in wall 

 paying jobs. It must also be remembered that there have been significant 

 declines in other fisheries such as saljnon and groundfish. 



