that sure that I'm anxious about 

 having them spend all that money 

 either. 



Comment : Mark Crandle, Coastal 

 Management. Increased production is 

 going to be an added benefit if it 

 exists. But what we're dealing with 

 here is the physical loss of land, 

 in terms of hurricane protection and 

 many other things. That we're actu- 

 ally just losing land mass, whether 



or not it's tied to fishery produc- 

 tions or not. And we have to do 

 something to address that problem 

 specif icaly. It's nice to be able 

 to justify your problem by saying 

 well, we're going to have more 

 shrimp, we're going to have more 

 oysters, and more of this. But there 

 is a very real problem that has abso- 

 lutely nothing to do with the fish- 

 eries production and that's physi- 

 cal protection of the coastline of 

 Louisiana . 



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