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Question* by Senators McClure and Wallop for Kate Troll, United 

 Fishermen of Alaska 



1. You say, on page 1 of your testimony that the fishing 

 community of Southeast Alaska accounts for 12,000 jobs in 

 the harvesting sector alone. At page 7 of the February 1990 

 "Role of the Tongaes National Forest Timber Harvest in the 

 Southeast Alaska Economy, " the McDowell Group says there are 

 2,730 involved in seafood harvestry. 



a. How do you account for this disparity of nearly 10,000 

 jobs? 



b. The McDowell Report points out that the seafood 

 industry is "largely seasonal" and with a "high non- 

 resident" component. Do you agree or disagree and why? 



2. The United Fishermen's Association (UFA) is unwilling to 

 wait for the Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP) , according 

 to page 3 of your testimony. Why does the fishing industry 

 desire to pre-empt the land planning process? 



3. If the UFA could be shown that the buffer strip policy would 

 result in a major loss of jobs to the timber industry, would 

 the UFA agree to open up some of the 1 . 6 million acres of 

 commercial forest land within existing wilderness areas to 

 make up the timber lost to buffer strips? 



4. On page 2 of your testimony, you state, "as of 1988, one- 

 third of the existing Aquatic Habitat Management Units 



(AHMUs) have been harvested." The concept of AHMUs was 

 developed in the mid-1980s. Is it not true that the vast 

 majority of harvesting in AHMUs took place in the 1960s and 

 1970s, and that the standards in the 1989-94 long-term 

 contract contains 100-foot buffers on all anadromous fish 

 streams? 



5. On page 3 of your testimony, you say that it is insulting to 

 the fishing industry and the communities dependent on 

 fishing to exclude the National Marine Fisheries Service 

 policy in the Tongass Land Management Plan planning process. 

 Are you aware of the October 6, 1989 letter to the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service detailing a management prescription 

 for their policy? 



