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GARY C. MATLOCK 



ACTING DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR 



NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE 



U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



BEFORE THE 



SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES MANAGEMENT 



COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES 



U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



SEPTEMBER 22, 1993 



Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee: I am 

 Gary Matlock, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

 Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) . I am 

 pleased to be here today to discuss the fisheries management 

 challenges that arise in regard to straddling stocks, with 

 particular reference to the prevailing situations off our Pacific 

 and Atlantic coasts. 



The world community has had its attention turned to a list of 

 management problems relating to straddling stocks that spans the 

 globe. Straddling fish stocks are those stocks whose ranges span 

 the 200-mile zones of national jurisdiction and the adjacent high 

 seas area. From a conservation point of view, such stocks are 

 likely to require coordinated management actions by adjoining 

 coastal states and cooperation by those who prosecute fisheries 

 in high seas areas to be effective. The world community is 

 presently directing its attention to these challenges at the 

 United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly 

 Migratory Fish Stocks and through the Food and Agriculture 

 Organization's efforts to develop a Code of Conduct for 



