ton, D.C. While the first panel will give comments on all aspects of 

 the Magnuson Act, I am very, very interested in seeing if there are 

 ways that we can avoid the short-circuiting in the future of this 

 process. 



The voices of all those who contributed to the council's recom- 

 mendation, in my belief, went unheard when the department virtu- 

 ally ignored the Pacific Whiting Council proposal. I hope some of 

 our witnesses today have suggestions of how we might address this 

 problem. 



Our Pacific salmon situation is reminiscent of the many-headed 

 Hydra of Greek mythology. Numerous separate authorities control 

 a multitude of factors that are the key to the survival and the en- 

 hancement of our Pacific salmon stocks. The activities of each of 

 those separate authorities must be addressed individually, but they 

 must also be addressed in a coordinated fashion. 



I am pleased that in our second panel we are able to obtain wit- 

 nesses representing several of the heads of the Pacific salmon 

 hydra. I am anxious to hear the testimony of all our witnesses, and 

 again, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for granting this hear- 

 ing in this place at this time. 



Thank you. 



Chairman Studds. Thank you very much. Now I would recognize 

 the Chairman of the Fisheries Management Subcommittee, Con- 

 gressman Tom Manton of New York. 



STATEMENT OF THE HON. THOMAS J. MANTON, A U.S. REPRE- 

 SENTATIVE FROM NEW YORK, AND CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMIT- 

 TEE ON FISHERIES MANAGEMENT 



Mr. Manton. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for put- 

 ting together this trip to the Pacific Northwest. As the new Chair- 

 man of the Fisheries Management Subcommittee which was 

 formed at the beginning of this Congress, I look forward to this 

 hearing. And, coming out here to the beautiful Pacific Northwest 

 with such beautiful weather, it gives me a good opportunity to get 

 out of a hot, steamy, muggy city called New York. 



I am also particularly pleased to be here in the City Council 

 Chamber. Having spent some 15 years in the New York City Coun- 

 cil, the scale, the size of the room and the intensity of the witnesses 

 always impresses me at the local level. I am blessed that on my 

 subcommittee I have a wealth of experience with — I will call her 

 our hostess — Elizabeth Furse and Jolene Unsoeld, Dan Hamburg 

 and Maria Cantwell, all from the Pacific Northwest. We also have 

 with us today our great colleague on the Merchant Marine and 

 Fisheries Committee from the other side of the country, Maine, 

 Tom Andrews. Of course, we are also honored by the presence of 

 Ron Wyden, who is not on our committee, but is a distinguished 

 member from your State of Oregon. We serve together on the 

 Energy and Commerce Committee, as our major committee, and 

 have closely on a number of issues under that committee's jurisdic- 

 tion. 



I look forward to hearing the testimony of the witnesses. We 

 have had some — I think three — hearings in Washington already on 

 the reauthorization of the Magnuson Act. We know that the Act 



