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green bay, wis. PRESS GAZETTE D. 48,000 S 59.500 MAR l 5 19/6 l% Pollution Noose Editor, Press-Gazette: It Is readily evident Irom Ray Psgel's recent columns bout PC8| in the NOW secllon ol the Press-Gazette that he la pro-paper mill. ,, 11 *"* he has spent much time and effort In defense of the paper mill recy- " \y | cling of paper, which includes carbonless copy paper from which PCBs have en tered the waters of Green bay. Mr. Pagel . has done well In presenting one side of the i coin. \ But what about this pollution noose ' which has begun to choke off our com ' merctal fishing industry? Does It continue ' to get tighter until It finally kills ' completely any chance of continuing our commercial fishing? 1 do not have a lot of Intricate statistics and figures to present In favor of com plete stoppage of PCBs into the waters of Green bay but I do have a couple of facta. Pact: The more PCBs dumped into the water, the more polluted It gets. Pact: Before last summer my brothers and cousins were making a respectable living ftshfng the waters of Green bay. Now our way of making a living has ended because we cannot sell a fish that has a PCB content as high as the carp we catch. The fish have been well above the limit which was arbitrarily set at five parts per ^million. : So the PCB noose has already been drawn too tight for us. Will it continue to Itlfbten and choke off the rest of the commercial fishing? Will it ever loosen again and allow us to continue to make a living commercial fishing as my family has done for generations? And what do we do until it does, If It ever does? I can only read with confusion an article Which In my mind Is in favor of allowing fipme of this deadly poison to continue to pater the already heavily polluted waters M Green bay. i Don Hermes 9SS Rlverview Drive Green Bay, Wls. HONS 0371S5