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epoe Day fish companY, inc. 



PRODUCER/PR,OCESSOR 

 of Fine Seofoods 



Mnilino Address Shipping AddresS: 



PO ^x 16M JERRY BATES, PRFSIDE^TT 617 5 W Doy Olvd 



Newport. Oregon 97365 Newport, Oregon 97365 



Telephone: (503) 265-6833 Focsimile. (503) 265-2145 

 Toll Free: 1-600-637-9996 



June 4, 1993 



To: The Small Business Subconunittee on 

 Regulation, Business Opportunities 

 and Technology 



RE: Whiting Allocation 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: 



I am an Oregon-based shoreside processor of Whiting as well as 

 a part-owner in a trawler that has participated in the Whiting 

 Fishery since the early 1980's. Our Newport plant was the first 

 large-scale, shoreside processor along the coast, although some 

 California plants have processed Whiting on a smaller scale since 

 the early 1980's. 



My major concerns regarding the recent Commerce Department's 

 allocation plan are as follows: 



1. The Commerce Department ignored all of the reasoning 

 supporting the decision sent to them by the council. 

 What is the purpose of having a regionally responsible 

 system designed by the Magnesian Act and supported by the 

 best scientific, economic and social impact information 

 available to have it simply overturned by a politically 

 motivated segment of the government. 



2. Having on Olympic style, catch all you can-while you can, 

 type of fishery in an area consisting of many fully- 

 exploited and several threatened species is asking for 

 serious by-catch complications and future severe catch 

 restrictions. Most of this would be imposed on the 

 shoreside processors and the existing small vessel 

 historical fleet as this information would be available 

 only after analyzing the offshore factory ship catch 

 data. They would have sailed away to Alaska, Russia and 

 other far away places leaving the burden to the coastal 

 plants and fishermen. 



