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prohibition against the Secretary's development of a limited 

 entry plan for those fisheries where the council has not acted 

 should be removed. This would give council members the clear 

 impetus to work out the plan among themselves, otherwise the 

 Secretary would ultimately be free to develop his or her own 

 plan, should the council fail to act. 



Economic allocation decisions are often necessitated by the 

 overcapitalization of a given fishery, but may not be acted on 

 until the matter is out of control. One possible approach would 

 be to reguire the Secretary to identify those fisheries that 

 either are, or are about to be, overcapitalized and reguire the 

 individual councils to develop a limited entry or other 

 management plan to address the overcapitalization within a 

 specified time period. 



Because economic allocation decisions involve "giving away" 

 national resources of considerable value, it is entirely 

 appropriate, in attempting to achieve the greatest overall 

 benefit to the nation, that the decision process acknowledge who 

 should benefit most. One approach would be to provide an 

 allocation priority to those entities that are controlled by U.S. 

 citizens. In this manner the benefits of the long-awaited 

 Americanization of the resource can be made real rather than 

 illusory by giving a lower allocation priority to those foreign 

 interests that have been able to maintain their inordinate 



