. 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 . REP. TONV FEO _ RCP. VERAL TARN REP. Jim Wmitty REP. CHUCK NORRIS* OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY COASTAL CAUCUS REPKESCNTATtVK TiM JOSI, CHAIR CLATSOP. LlNCOt-N. LANE. DOUCt-AS. COOS i President Bill Clinton The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, 20500 Dear Mr. Pres
. 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 . REP. TONV FEO _ RCP. VERAL TARN REP. Jim Wmitty REP. CHUCK NORRIS* OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY COASTAL CAUCUS REPKESCNTATtVK TiM JOSI, CHAIR CLATSOP. LlNCOt-N. LANE. DOUCt-AS. COOS i President Bill Clinton The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, 20500 Dear Mr. President: The members here undersigned of the Oregon Coastal Caucus, a bipartisan body with members from both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, would like to convey their deep distress at the arbitrary and capricious nature of the recent Department of Commerce decision to adopt a rule governing the 1993 Pacific whiting fishery that disregards (1) the recommendation of the Pacific Fishery Management Coundl (PFMC) and (2) a mle concerning whiting aUocation recently proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). With this action, the Department of Commerce has undermined the PFMC's process and iu proper rule-making authority under the Magnuson Fishery Management Conservation Act (FCMA) and under the terms of the Fishery Management Plan for groundfish that the PFMC adopted and the Department approved. With this action the Department has also called into question the validity and the role of open and public participation in a process that was intended to enable regional authorities to manage regional resources. The Department has allowed politics to subvert the legitimate needs of the many coastal fishermen that have depended on the whiting resource for more than a decade, the needs of the many onshore coastal processors which have made major investment decisions on the basis of the PFMC's long-term direction on whiting allocation, and the needs
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