solely to fishery enforcement, but were used 

 also for other Coast Guard duties such as in- 

 vestigating oil spills, sea search and rescue, 

 and general law enforcement. Approximately 

 2,500 days of ship time and 6,000 hours of 

 aircraft time were devoted to enforcing fishery 

 laws, regulations, and treaties during 1975, 

 about one-half million square miles were 

 patrolled, at a cost of $46 million for the year. 

 The Coast Guard spent about 5 percent of its 



total annual operational budget on fisheries 

 enforcement. 25 



The Coast Guard's original plan for en- 

 forcement under the new law called for in- 

 creasing ship time by 951 days to provide 

 2,616 patrol days inside active fishing areas 

 and 823 patrol days in other areas; increasing 

 aircraft time by 7,553 hours to provide 8,446 

 hours of patrol in active fishing areas and 

 3,068 hours of patrol in other areas. 26 



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Trawlers operating out of New England ports work in the ground fisheries of Georges Bank. 



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