Acknowledgements 



The staff wishes to acknowledge the assistance and cooperation of the following 

 contractors and consultants in the gathering and formulation of the background data: 



James M. Acheson, University of Maine 

 Frederick W. Bell, Florida State University 

 Development Sciences Inc., East Sandwich, 



Massachusetts 

 Douglas Campbell 

 Eastland Resolution Fisheries Survey, 



Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf State Marine 



Fisheries Commissions 

 John M. Gates, University of Rhode Island 



William Jensen, Willamette University, 



Oregon 

 Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, 



California 

 Synergy Inc., Washington, D.C. 

 Robert M. Snyder, Jupiter, Florida 

 Robert E. Taber, University of Rhode Island 

 John Vernberg, University of South 



Carolina 



The staff further wishes to acknowledge the assistance of former OTA staff member 

 Cynthia Mercing, who worked on the early development of this study, and those other 

 people and organizations, both public and private, which reviewed and commented on 

 various draft documents circulated by OTA or provided other types of assistance: 



William T. Burke, University of 



Wash ington 

 Francis T. Christy, Resources for the Future 

 Patrick J. Doody, Zapata-Haynie Corp. 

 David J. Etzold, Univeristy of Southern 



Mississippi 

 Wade L. Griffin, Texas A & M University 

 Sig Jaeger, North Pacific Fishing Vessel 



Owners Assn. 

 Lauriston R. King, National Science Foun- 

 dation 

 J.L. McHugh, State University of New York 

 William G. Mustard, Atlantic States Fish- 

 eries Commission 

 Virgil Norton, University of Rhode Island 

 Susan B. Peterson, Woods Hole 

 Oceanographic Institution 



Gilbert C. Radonski, Sport Fishing Institute 

 Courtland L. Smith, Oregon State Univer- 

 sity 

 Richard Stroud, Sport Fishing Institute 

 U.S. Department of Commerce, National 



Marine Fisheries Service 

 U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the 



Oceanographer of the Navy 

 U.S. Department of State, Oceans and Fish- 

 eries Affairs 

 U.S. Department of Transportation, Coast 



Guard 

 Lee Weddig, National Fisheries Institute 

 Walt V. Yonker, Association of Pacific 

 Fisheries 



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