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ject of this hearing is to deal with better ways to manage resources 

 that you will wrestle with as you reauthorize the Magnuson Act. 



My counterpart, Holland Schmitten, who heads the National Ma- 

 rine Fisheries Service cannot be here today, but I would like to 

 submit his testimony for the record. 



Senator Kerry. Without objection, it will be placed in the appen- 

 dix. 



I am the only Senator here. No one is allowed to object. This is 

 easy, folks. 



Mr. BULLARD. I will concentrate, therefore, not on my position on 

 Magnuson, but rather what we're doing on assistance. 



But I do want to make sure that in testifying that I do not con- 

 vey the feeling that this is an issue where if we put some money — 

 or how we spend $30 million, that's the answer to the problem. 



The answer to this problem is improved management. The efforts 

 of yourself. Representatives Studds and Frank, Senator Kennedy, 

 other members of the New England delegation in bringing this 

 issue to the forefront resulted in amounts of money being made 

 available to address the economic consequences of both the de- 

 pleted resource and management cutbacks. It began with $1.5 mil- 

 lion in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery Reinvestment Program, and 

 got built up to a $30 million pot of money announced in March, and 

 we continue to seek additional resources. 



We are working with other agencies beyond the Commerce De- 

 partment to try and find the most intelligent ways to respond to 

 this situation. The money that you initially made available, the 

 $1.5 million, is being administered through a cooperative agree- 

 ment with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. We are 

 doing that because we think they can identify private foundation 

 sources, and leverage that money into more. 



We have already received a number of good applications. We ex- 

 pect to make announcements within the next couple of weeks on 

 now that $1.5 million backed up with other private sources, will be 

 spent, at least how the first portion of it will be spent. 



We have established family assistance centers, as several of the 

 speakers have talked about. They are undergoing growing pains. 

 We are in the process now of retaining more permanent staff, hav- 

 ing initially staffed them with detailees on a temporary basis. They 

 are permanent centers in New Bedford, Gloucester, on the Cape 

 and in Portland, and there are mobile centers to deal with the far- 

 flung ports in down east Maine and further to the southwest. 



It's important to understand that we want to work with States 

 in doing this, and the State of Massachusetts was the first to ask 

 for Department of Labor funding, and their funding for these cen- 

 ters is in excess of what we're doing. And that provides access to 

 labor, retraining and so on. Maine has also recently asked for sup- 

 port and has gotten an award from the Labor Department to do the 

 same kind of thing. We would hope that we would get a similar 

 kind of participation in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the other 

 ports. 



On July 11, the Economic Development Administration an- 

 nounced an award of $6 million in grants to fishing communities. 

 This testimony was prepared for your first hearing. Since that time 

 they've announced a couple of other awards, so the EDA awards 



