Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 of commerce, port, and so forth. I've been on the
2 committee for seven years.
3 Today you are going to hear from three of
4 us; myself and Jim Slocum and Ken Sebens, who is a
5 director of University of Washington Friday Harbor
6 labs. And each of us are going to make a number of
7 different points that are all included in a letter
8 that we have already sent to you. There is about 20
9 different points in our letter.
10 The Marine Resource Committee is part of a
11 network of seven different MRCs that are in north
12 county, and we are operating under the umbrella of
13 funding from the Northwest Straits Commission, which
14 is a federally funded group.
15 And I see that I'm running out of time so
16 I'm going to jump to it here.
17 One of our concerns is vessel traffic, of
18 course, and that effect on the forging behavior of the
19 federally listed endangered Southern Resident Killer
20 Whales.
21 We are also concerned about the localized
22 impacts to the spring spawning Cherry Point herring
23 and their food web, which also affects the Chinook
24 salmon and, again, the killer whales.
25 So why do we care about this -- that's it.
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