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public officials; on the one hand, it is desired to expand and increase the 

 economic importance of the fisheries, and on the other, the fisheries are 

 commonly regarded as a perishable natural source in imminent danger of 

 exhaustion unless protected by public regulation and restraint backed by 

 police power; much of these regulations have the effect of imposing in- 

 efficiency upon the fisheries and increasing their costs. It appears that before 

 important progress can be made in developing the fisheries, thinking on this 

 subject must be clarified and possibly re-oriented or the emphasis shifted in 

 a direction which will afford to the fisheries the same kind of encouragement 

 to efficiency as is given to agriculture; unnecessary restraints should be 

 removed and assurance given that the use of any improved techniques that 

 may be developed will not be forbidden without scientific justification. 



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