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We cannot responsibly manage our resource with inaccurate data currently 

 being provided to our biologists by the current sampling procedures. 

 If there is not a one hundred percent observer program aboard all catcher- 

 processors and foreign catcher vessels, the catch samplings will not contain 

 accurate information for monitoring the effects on the resource. We believe it 

 should be a participant paid program (i.e. catcher-processor and/or catcher 

 boat). 





101-267 Section 206 LARGE- SCALE DRIFTNET FISHING 



(b) FINDINGS - The Congress finds that - 



(2) the use of large-scale driftnets is expanding into new regions 

 of the world's oceans, including the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea; 



We support an amendment to include Antarctic and Arctic Oceans. 



ADDITIONS TO THE MAGNUSON ACT 



The Magnuson Act must be amended to instruct the states to identify bottom fish 

 nursery grounds where bottom fish spawning occurs. We need to prohibit 

 fishing on the identified nursery grounds. 



What makes us catch a resource that: 



1 ) Is not yet capable of reproducing, thus destroying the future 

 of that specific resource? 



2) That has little or no economic benefit to our nation? 



