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Members of Congress but other times constituent groups — trying to 

 encourage us to go out and get this or that or the other country to 

 join ICCAT. It is incumbent upon us to have some consistency 

 there. Chairman Studds wrote us to put pressure on the Mexicans 

 to join ICCAT. I am very hopeful we will see Mexicans taking ini- 

 tiatives in that area very soon. 



Finally, I think we have to answer those voices that if we really 

 do have a commitment to sustainable use of fishery resources, if 

 that has any meaning at all, we have to be prepared to bring our- 

 selves within a regulatory framework. 



Certainly, I agree that our traditional fisheries in NAFO deserve 

 recognition, and I would work as hard as I can to try to ensure that 

 we are able to get a respectable quota that represented the rather 

 small resource interests that our fishermen have had in the NAFO 

 regulatory areas over the years. 



Mr. Manton. Thank you. Ambassador. 



That concludes our hearing for today. I want to thank the panel- 

 ists. 



This meeting is adjourned. 



[Whereupon, at 2:40 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned, and 

 the following was submitted for the record:] 



