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<br />~U/~ <br /> <br />we should have up to 20,000 acre-feet in that <br />pool if we are going to really maintain maximum <br />fish protection and production in that conserva- <br />tion pool. That's what we should have. <br /> <br />Actually, if we are going to go out and I <br />buy the water and the necessary water rights to <br />attend that, we can't see that there should be <br />any objection on anybody's part. If that water <br />belongs to us and we acquire it, why should we <br />be any different than irrigators or anybody else, <br />if we want to store that much water in there? . <br />Maybe there are some objections. If there are, <br />we would be happy to hear them. <br /> <br />Again, we have to approach this problem <br />from the standpoint of what is best for fish <br />environment and we would have to again be con- <br />trolled by what we are going to get out of it. <br />If we can only have a 10,000 acre-foot pool, <br />that might vary from the standpoint of what good <br />it. is going to do the fish. We might be able <br />to barely maintain a certain number at that <br />particular level but, as far as optimum condi- <br />tions are concerned, that may not be enough. <br /> <br />Another problem in this particular bill <br />that you are considering here, this federal <br />authorization, I don't know just what is in- <br />ferred in paragraph (cl there, in connection <br />with silt but again if that means, or can be <br />construed to mean, that as soon as. that conser- <br />vation pool fills up full of silt that we don't <br />have any storage space, then we'd have to'con- <br />sider that aspect of it and consider what value <br />it has for fisheries purposes. If that pool <br />fills up with silt and then we don't have any <br />more storage space in the reservoir, and that <br />might happen in ten or twenty years, again that's <br />a matter for the engineers to tell us, but that <br />must be taken into consideration as well, be- <br />cause that reservoir is silting up pretty badly. <br />We would have to know definitely just what that <br />meant and if that's what it meant, we would have <br />to take that into consideration of value. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />Briefly that's the Game and Fish Depart- <br />ment's position in it. Our job in the state is <br />to try and preserve what fish we have in the <br />state and we think the proper way to do it is <br />to try and get as much multiple use out of the <br />waters of the state as we possibly can. We know <br />