. Economic impact of the whiting allocation on Oregon coastal communities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, Newport, OR, June 4, 1993 . 58 HEDY L. RIJKEN State Representative • District 4 Liinc, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook and Yamhill Counties Testimony of Representative Hedy Rijken before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Technology June 4, 1993 Good morning Chair Wyden and committee members: Thank you very much fo
. Economic impact of the whiting allocation on Oregon coastal communities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, Newport, OR, June 4, 1993 . 58 HEDY L. RIJKEN State Representative • District 4 Liinc, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook and Yamhill Counties Testimony of Representative Hedy Rijken before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Technology June 4, 1993 Good morning Chair Wyden and committee members: Thank you very much for the opportunity to testify before you this morning. My name is Hedy Rijken and I represent Oregon House district 4, which encompasses Lincoln County and parts of Tillamook and Lane Counties and includes the city we are meeting in this morning. As a coastal district, district 4 has felt first-hand the effects of the recent Department of Commerce decision allocating this season's whiting harvest. Approximately half of the entire Oregon trawler fleet that fishes for Pacific whiting is based right here in Newport. According to agriculture and resource economist Hans Radtke, this Newport fleet has been "instrumental in the pioneering and development of the whiting ; That pioneering work included development activities that stretched back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. It included contacts with Russian, Polish and other foreign partners. It included about $10 million worth of investment in fishing vessels and another $15 million in equipment for processing plants. The whiting industry in Newport even transported an entire fish meal processing plant down from Alaska in order to better use both the whiting resource and to turn what were once leftovers into added-value products. Four whiting processing plants are now located here which, together with the local trawler fleet, employ about 1,700 workers and bring more than $35 million into the local economy
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