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irreducible minimum, and you want them to go farther? 



MR. GLUDE: Yes, we do. 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: We have been working very close- 

 ly with the Fish and Wildlife Service, especially since we hav(5 

 been in the Department of the Interior. As a matter of fact, 

 next week I am going out to Chicago with Mr. Poston's distin- 

 guished brother, who is the Regional Director in Chicago, 

 working on the Alewife, and we would hope that the key represen- 

 tative there of the Department of Interior will be a member of the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. As a matter of fact, we expeci 

 Dr. Smith to be out. 



More and more as we work on these problems I 

 think we have to recognize a close relationship with the Fish 

 and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 

 and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, and I think your own 

 point is well taken. We have a proposed study in Maine now on 

 the production of lobster. Evidently the mean temperature in the 

 Maine waters has dropped seven degrees over the past several yiars 

 for reasons unknown to us. We do have a power generator on an 

 island in Casco Bay off Portland, and the notion was that we would 

 see if we could heat up some of the water--whether that may bring 

 the lobsters to maturity. I know you people here are so involved 

 with your own indigenous fish that you probably haven't been keeping 



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track of eastern lobster prices, but they have gone up and up,!and 



