Name: Tracy Stahl
Title: Vice-President Southbay Saltworks
Employer: Southbay Saltworks
Date/Time: 12-2-5
Place: Southbay Saltworks office

Quotes: “… this area has been utilized for salt making since about 1873.  In 1873 there are some newspaper articles that talk about the construction of the Salt Works called La Punta Salt, and La Punta Salt was located somewhere in this general area.  In 1902 it became Western Salt, and the Babcock family actually owned this business.”

Name: Victoria Touchstone
Title: National Wildlife Refuge Planner
Employer: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Date/Time: 1-6-06
Place:  Tijuana Estuary

Quote: “We have a number of seabirds that nest at the salt ponds.  There are shorebirds and waterfowl.  We also have a number of seabirds…there are approximately 7, the Black skimmer, Elegant tern, Forster’s Tern, Royal Tern, Caspian tern, and the endangered California Least tern.”

Name: Allen Jones
Title: Vice-President H.G. Fenton
Employer: H.G. Fenton
Date/Time: 12-11-05
Place: Southbay Saltworks

Quotes: “While this is a small salt operation it is more efficient than most, because of its small size the water can be moved very quickly and very efficiently from pond to pond, and because there are a number of salts --four principle salts which are created from ocean water.”