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those which prohibit, restrict or limit fishing in some way, 
those aimed at improving the environment as a conservation 
measure and other conservation measures. Conservation which 
involves international treaties or conventions will be covered 
separately. 
Conservation statutes are many and varied. The more 
significant ones are: 
(1) 16 U.S.C. §§661-664--provides for conservation, main- 
tenance, and management of wildlife (includes fish) resources 
by providing that whenever any Government authority or anyone 
with Government permission plans to modify any body of water, 
such as by impounding, diverting or deepening it, such authority 
must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
of the Interior, and with the appropriate State authority, with 
a view toward conservation of wildlife resources by preventing 
loss of and damage to such resources, as well as providing for 
the development and improvement thereof in connection with such 
water-resource development. It is not clear whether any trans- 
fer of function to the Secretary of Commerce has occurred here; 
if it has not, Congress might want to consider it. 
(2) 16 U.S.C. §667b--provides that real property under 
the jurisdiction or control of a Federal agency and no longer 
required by such agency may be utilized for wildlife conser- 
vation purposes. 
(3) 16 U.S.C. §755--directs the Secretary of Commerce to 
establish salmon-cultural stations in the Columbia River Basin, 
to improve feeding and spawning conditions, and to perform all 
other activities necessary for the conservation of fish in the 
Columbia River Basin. 
(4) 16 U.S.C. §§757a and b--authorizes the Secretary of 
the Interior (appears to have been transferred to the Secretary 
of Commerce) to enter into cooperative agreements with States 
to take action to conserve, develop, and enhance the anadromous 
and Great Lakes fisheries. 
(5) 16 U.S.C. §757f£--directs the Secretary of the Interior 
(or Commerce?) to make recommendations, based on certain studies, 
to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, concerning 
the elimination or reduction of polluting substances detrimental 
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