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Tremendous catches of Lake Erie Yellow are being landed but the old fish processing facilities were shut down with the commercial fish tugs were outlawed by the governor and legislature. Fish scaling, cutting, transportatiom, freezer storage and ice production for handling the perch for processing in Hamburg, perch filets for safe public supply. All those jobs were lost but could be returned to our economy. New facilities should be constructed to process the perch hook and line fishermen take. Quick processing is needed and trained workers will be employed. Charlies Seafood in Hamburg brought in Freezer trailers of frozen saugers that were kept all year till orders came in from restaurants. Other wise only Carnadian Pech are processed and caught are sold in the area.

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Tremendous catches of Lake Erie Yellow are being landed but the old fish processing facilities were shut down with the commercial fish tugs were outlawed by the governor and legislature. Fish scaling, cutting, transportatiom, freezer storage and ice production for handling the perch for processing in Hamburg, perch filets for safe public supply. All those jobs were lost but could be returned to our economy. New facilities should be constructed to process the perch hook and line fishermen take. Quick processing is needed and trained workers will be employed. Charlies Seafood in Hamburg brought in Freezer trailers of frozen saugers that were kept all year till orders came in from restaurants. Other wise only Carnadian Pech are processed and caught are sold in the area.

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Health Depart shipment. ment guidelines require transportation of fish under ice Prescence. Live wells are not accepted un;less freezing temperatures are present as in  ice fishing. Tuna taken in the Atlantic must be iced immediately upon landing in the boat, Bering sea water is considered cold enough such as halibut, cod  and crab.

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Blue Pike fishing in 1950's till smelt destroyed the blue pike. Canadian smelt trawlers returned most hook and line fisheries in the 1960's  and that was when the "Dead Lake returned." The smelt are air freighted from Detroit in iced packers for Asian foods. Fourteen years as a commercial gill net fisherman in Lake Erie. Thirty years as Charter Boat Captain and four plus years as a USCG engine man 2nd class Great Lakes, Alaska, Puget Sound from British Columbia down to Olympia, Washington...  Cutters Kaw, USACE Tug Nash 9LT5, Dredge Lyman Derrick Boat McCauley,, Ketchikan waters to British Columbia, Also AK Cook Inlet and local Rivers, Florida Keys, Galveston TX waters and many local lakes and streams. Now 81 years old and slowing down but fuller alleged "RETIREMENT'. Also "Lighthouse Keeper, Rescue Boat service at Fairport harbor Ohio, Ketchikan, And Seattle. I stop at Ontario fishing boat operations for friendly visits and thirty years at Point Breeze RV Park on Angola, NY.

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