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In West Germany the government involvement in fisheries 
occurs at both state and federal levels. The two federal 
bodies involved in fisheries are the Department of Fishery 
Policy within the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry 
in Bonn, and the Fishery Research Board in Hamburg. At the 
state level the four coastal states each operate a fishery 
port and are generally responsible for implementing fishery 
policy and programs established at the federal level. 
The Ministry, of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry is \con- 
sidered to be a medium-sized agency, having 700 civil-servant 
employees. The larger Ministries of Defense and Finance each 
have 2,000 employees. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and 
Forestry has a budget of about $3.2 billion, with the Depart- 
ment of Fishery Policy receiving about $19 million. Even 
though the fisheries budget is small relative to the total 
budget there is considerable support for fisheries in the 
parliament and from the general population, particularly 
from the representatives of the coastal states. 
The programs for fisheries include operation of a six- 
vessel fishery protective service which provides weather 
service, medical care, and technical assistance to the fleet, 
operation of three research vessels and on-shore research, 
capital assistance for fleet modernization, and a seamen's 
social security program. 
Financial subsidy program 
The measures of assistance and support by the West 
Germany Federal Government and the Laender (provinces) to im- 
prove and strengthen the economic structure of sea fisheries 
are limited to capital assistance because EEC rules prohibit 
member countries from giving operating subsidies. To overcome 
the substantial cost increases resulting from the energy 
crisis, the Federal Government gave aid for structural and 
consolidation measures to the extent of $5.9 million (a meas- 
ure restricted to 1974 only). This special assistance 
enabled the industry to continue its catching operations at 
its previous level and prevented the collapse of individual 
enterprises, in particular cutter fisheries. 
Including the above assistance the Government made avail- 
ables ins its—e1 974. fiscalsyear- aitotal of: S17 2) midijaion; which 
was used as follows: 
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