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BioDPOducts, Inc 

 RQBox«9 

 warrenton, OR 97146 

 (5051 851-2256 

 FAX: (50!) 851-5701 



April 21, 1993 



President Bill Clinton 

 ExecutivB Office of ttie Pre&Meat 

 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 

 Washington, D. C. 20500 



Dear Mr. President: 



Sixty days ago, eight people at my company were laid off. Now your Department of Commerce made a 

 single decision that might cause me and all the rest of my co-workers to loose our jobs. 



When you told us that your goal, if you should become President, was to create jobs, we believed you. 

 But now, we don't know what to think. The Secretary of Commerce made a decision on the Allocation 

 of PACIFIC WHITING that may mean the loss of several months work this year for myself and many other 

 employees at Bioproducts, Inc., Warrenton, Oregon, (a fish feed manufacturer, and user of fish scrap). 

 The Regional Council proposal would give the fish processors six to seven months work, but the 

 Secretary's decision took so much fish away from the shore plants, it would cut them back to two months 

 work. What this means to Bioproduas, is that we would not be able to receive the fish scrap we need 

 to honor our contracts with various state and federal agencies, plus supplying feed to private fish 

 hatcheries. 



Because of the lack of jobs in the logging business and mills in Oregon, and the closure of Astoria 

 Plywood l^ill, we have no other place to turn to for jobs If you alkDw those jobs to be taken away from 

 us and given to the factory trawler fleet, how will we surwe? 



It said in the newspaper, that the reason the Secretary of Commerce changed the amount of fish that the 

 companies on shore are supposed to get, was that somebody from Tyson Foods asked him to do it so 

 that their fleet of factory trawlers could have the fish. YOU PROMISED US that your administration would 

 not be influenced by special interest group lobbying. Why didn't the Secretary listen to the 

 recommendations of the scientists, Regional Council members and National Marine Fisheries Sen^kM? 

 Please help us keep our jobs! We all want to work but the decision made by your administration is taking 

 our jobs away. Why do the political decisions always favor the indrviduals with the most money, rather 

 than the working people? What is the value of the Council process if you don't accept the 

 recommendations? 



Please, President Clinton, help us, we want to work. Tell the Secretary of Commerce to stop the factory 

 trawlers from taking our jobs away Tell him to stop the fishing and accept the recommendation of the 

 Pacific Fisheries Management Council and National Marine Fisheries Senrice. We need our jobs to feed 

 our families. Please don't let us down. 



BIOPRODUCTS PLANT WORKER 

 Warrenton, Oregon 



cc: Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse 



Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown 

 Senators Hatfield and Packwood 



