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Our commercial fishers know too that our negotiating strategy does not desire to place their 

 interests at risk -- we would love to gain our coho conservation objectives without cost -- but 

 the fact remains that the measures we are seeking to address our chronic problems with 

 Chinook and coho stocks will have impacts on Canadian fisheries. 



The result of further impasse is more and more restrictive measures in Washington-area 

 fisheries dependent upon chinook and coho stocks and more and more frustration with the 

 inability to deal with the major harvester on those same stocks: Canadian fisheries. 



The problem we face is the limited number of opportunities to address Canadian needs and 

 priorities as part of gaining ground on our coho and chinook objectives and the will of 

 others to reject those few opportunities and provide none in their place. 



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