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Mr. Leggett. All right, Mr. McCloskey has used all his time, and 

 I think those are all the questions at this point. 



Dr. White. Mr. Chairman, I just want to clarify the record that 

 we made this morning whether or not we have observers who ob- 

 served porpoise being taken this year. There was a period in which 

 Judge Enright's decision was valid, and we took observations, and 

 we have for that 4-day period a record of porpoises — four were 

 taken. 



Mr. Leggett. How many tons of tuna ? 



Dr. White. About 100 tons of tuna. 



Mr. Leggett. All right. Very good. 



Thank you very much, gentlemen. 



Mr. Leggett. It might be good to hear from Mr. Felando at this 

 point. 



Mr. Felando. Mr. Chairman, we would like to delay our presen- 

 tation. 



Mr. Leggett. All right. 



Mr. Edney. 



Mr. McCloskey. Mr. Chairman, there are some questions I would 

 like to ask Mr. Felando. 



Mr. Leggett. He is scheduled later. 



Mr. McCloskey. I understand some remarks have been made out 

 in the hallway that I would like to challenge. 



Mr. Leggett. You can do that in due course. 



Mr. Edney. 



TESTIMONY OF STEVE EDNEY, PRESIDENT, UNITED CANNERY 



INDUSTRIAL WORKERS 



Mr. Edney. Mr. Chairman, my name is Steve Edney. I am presi- 

 dent of the United Cannery Industrial Workers, representing some 

 9,000 cannery workers in the United States and its territories, the 

 territory of Samoa, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 



Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your* 

 courtesies in the past and now I would also like to compliment you on 

 your handling of these meetings. It is my belief that you have been 

 fair to both sides. 



I also would like to say that I am a little saddened by what wasi 

 said here today. 



Mr. Leggett. Well, as I indicated, we don't want to get into any 

 personal epithets with respect to anybody. We want to stick to the 

 facts. We are going to be here all night. 



Mr. Edney. AH right. I will back up. 



I would like to say this. Our people are very much upset by the 

 new proposed regulations by NOAA. We believe that the considera- 

 tions of our people have not been given proper consideration. They 

 have not given proper considerations to our needs and our benefits 

 in this at all. We think that this Government is the government of 

 the people and for the people, and therefore, you must deal with 

 human factors in this whole fight. 



We favor, as we stated before, and we are on record as favoring, 

 some program to help the porpoise problem. We have been on rec- 



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