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Governor Mike Lowry 

 June 30. 1W4 

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Third, new and fresh federal perspectives should be infused into the controversy with the 

 clear mandate to develop options to bridge 1994 negotiations into a credible long-term 

 salmon rebuilding agreement. Ask these individuals to review the objectives and 

 negotiating positions of the interests to determme which have credibility and which are 

 merely protecting the stams quo. 



Fourth, the U.S. must move rapidly to advance the negotiations over equity which have 

 been deadlocked at the govemment-to-government level for more than a year. All 

 creative ideas for comprehensive agreements on fishing regimes now are blocked by the 

 lack of progress on this core issue. State Department or other federal officials must 

 assemble the skills and resources necessary to fulfill this federal commitment to resolve 

 the equity issue. 



Fifth, the federal government must recognize that the Pacific Salmon Treaty Act. 

 requiring the concurrence of Alaska and all other commissioners to implement federal 

 policy, is flawed. No long-term salmon rebuilding agreement can be developed and 

 implemented unless the process of decision-making is improved. The Administration 

 must commit to aid us in a reform of the decision-making structure of the U.S. Section. 

 This is a critical procedural step toward a long-term solution. 



Sixth, with a commitment to a new decision-making structure in place, the federal 

 government must work with the U.S. Section of the Commission to aggressively establish 

 a strategy to achieve the most important goal of all, a long-term rebuilding agreement 

 within which harvest levels respond to abundance and conservation needs. 



Finally, with these policy objectives established and cormnitments effectively conveyed to 

 Canada, shape a fishing regime for 1994. It is likely that the 1993 fishing regime would 

 provide a starting point for these discussions. 



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