78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 195-MAY 11, 1944 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a survey of the character, extent, and condition of all of the marine and fresh-water fishery resources and other aquatic resources of the United States, its Territories, and possessions, includ- ing high-seas resources in which the United States may have interests or rights; and the economic organization and status of the industry based thereon; such survey is to include but is not to be limited to the following: (a) The current methods, practices, facilities, and equipment used in producing commercial fishery products. (b) The methods, practices, facilities, and equipment used in proc- essing, distributing, transporting, marketing, and storing fishery products, including an assessment of measures required for the protec- tion of these perishable commodities. (c) The methods, practices, facilities, and equipment which may be practicable for expanding the utilization of the existing or potential marine and fresh-water fishery resources, inclusive of recreational fishing. (d) The laws and regulations that govern the commercial and recre- ational fisheries. SEC. 2. The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior is directed to submit a report to the Congress as soon as prac- ticable, but not later than January 1, 1945, concerning the results of the survey mentioned in the preceding section, and also shall submit recommendations with respect to the following: (a) New or revised regulations or precautionary measures deemed to be necessary or advisable for the protection, conservation, and man- agement on a sustained-yield basis of the fishery and other renewable marine and fresh-water resources. (b) New or revised regulations or precautionary measures deemed to be necessary or desirable to insure adequate protection of the fishery and other biological resources from contamination by pollution or other hazards, and to prevent spoilage or deterioration of fishery products; such recommendations to apply to catching, landing, processing, transporting, marketing, or storing fishery products or commodities derived from the fisheries. (c) The opportunities for, and the advisability of further arrange- ments for, coordinating fishery administration and management through State fishery compacts with the consent of the Congress (as authorized by article I, section 10, of the Constitution of the United States of America), and opportunities for, and the advisability of additional coordinated management and administration of, interna- tional fisheries. (d) The means of effecting the maximum utilization, consistent with their continued preservation at an optimum level of productivity, of the marine and fresh-water fishery resources utilized or potentially capable of utilization for commercial and recreational fishing, giving special consideration to methods of managing and increasing the fishery production of interior waters, including artificial impound- ments and farm ponds. (e) New and improved methods of capturing, landing, processing, storing, distributing, and marketing fishery products or commodities, including increasing consumption as food and the industrial utiliza- tion of fishery products through public education, or other activities; such recommendations to contemplate the full and cooperative use of the personnel and facilities of appropriate State, Territerial, Scope of survey. Report and recom- mendations. Management, etc., on sustained-yield basis. Protection from con- tamination and spoil- age. State fishery com- pacts. International fish- eries. Means of effecting maximum utilization. Improved methods of capturing, process- ing, marketing, etc. 58 STAT.] 221
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