ATLANTIC TUNAS CONSERVATION ACT 

 REAUTHORIZATION 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1993 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Fisheries Management, 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington, DC. 



The Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 1:35 p.m., in room 

 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Thomas J. Manton 

 [chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding. 



Present: Representatives Manton, Hughes, Taylor, Lancaster, 

 Cantwell, Pallone, Coble, Kingston, and Torkildsen. 



Staff Present: Jeffrey Pike, Chief of Staff; Sue Waldron, Press 

 Secretary; Jim Mathews, Staff Director; Greg Lambert, Counsel; 

 Lori Rosa, Clerk; Jean Flemma, Professional Staff; Vicki Credle 

 and Bill Price, NOAA detailees; Julie Roberts, Sea Grant Intern; 

 Margherita Woods, David Whaley, Laurel Bryant, Ed Lee, and 

 John Rayfield, Minority Professional Staff. 



Mr. Manton. Good afternoon, everybody. We are supposed to 

 start at 1:30 but you may have heard the bells go off for a vote. I 

 suppose most Members of the Subcommittee will want to head over 

 now to vote, so that is precisely what I am going to do. If you will 

 just bear with us, we should be back in about 10 minutes and we 

 will get started. 



(Recess.) 



STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS MANTON, A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 

 FROM NEW YORK, AND CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISH- 

 ERIES MANAGEMENT 



Mr. Manton. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We will get 

 started. This year the Subcommittee on Fisheries Management has 

 devoted considerable attention to the reauthorization of the Mag- 

 nuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The Magnuson 

 Act established a conservation and management regime for fish 

 stocks that dwell primarily within the United States exclusive eco- 

 nomic zone. 



We now turn our attention to some fish stocks that roam the 

 high seas. While international law allows a nation to exclude for- 

 eign fishing vessels from its exclusive economic zone, on the high 

 seas it is a veritable free-for-all, where any fishing boat from any 

 nation may take whatever amount of fish it can handle without 

 regard to the need for responsible conservation measures. 



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