ROEDEL: SECOND 100 YEARS 



We are thus striving for many things in our 

 research program. If they are to be of max- 

 imum value, they must produce results that will 

 assist us in our attempts to keep as many fishery 

 management options open to the Nation as pos- 

 sible. 



We need, then, reasonably precise measures 

 of abundance of the living marine resources, 

 and of their response to varying types and de- 

 grees of fishing pressure — foreign, domestic, 

 sport, and commercial. We need to know of 

 their distribution in time and space, of the im- 

 pact on them of environmental changes whether 

 induced by man or by nature. We must cope 



with a wide variety of technological problems, 

 some of them requiring short-term responses. 

 And economic, social, and legal research must 

 concern itself with a wide variety of programs, 

 ranging from rather basic economic analyses of 

 each fishery, to developing means for over- 

 coming such problems as property rights and 

 split jurisdiction, and determining the economic 

 and social benefits of fisheries resources to the 

 Nation. 



It is within this framework and toward reso- 

 lution of these problems that our programs and 

 eflforts are being redirected as the Fisheries Ser- 

 vice enters its second hundred years. 



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