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Mrs. Unsoeld. Our domestic producers do, I agree with you. I am 

 going to cut you off. I am going to ask you one other question with 

 a yes or no answer so other Members can have a chance. 



Would the MOUs — will these MOUs you are going to enter into 

 under the new regulations, will they specify that a foreign country 

 will meet U.S. standards rather than can meet as is current, and 

 will countries without MOUs be prohibited from importing into the 

 U.S.? 



You ought to be able to know what you are heading for. 



Mr. Billy. Yes. Our preference is to have them say 



Mrs. Unsoeld. And you would prohibit from importing into this 

 country from those countries that don't? 



Mr. Billy. We would take action based on 



Mrs. Unsoeld. Yes or no. 



Mr. Billy. Yes, we would — we wouldn't prohibit but we would 

 take action on shipments. 



Mrs. Unsoeld. OK, that is enough. 



Dr. Foster, my bill would put NMFS in the role of tracking water 

 quality and shellfish growing areas in working to restore these crit- 

 ical shellfish habitats. 



Do you think that is an appropriate role for NMFS? 



Dr. Foster. Well, we are certainly very active in habitat conser- 

 vation and in habitat restoration. 



Mrs. Unsoeld. And I do not believe probably, Mr. Billy, that 

 your regulations within FDA could extend to that degree. 



Mr. Billy. That is correct. 



Mrs. Unsoeld. I will take you off the hook and focus on Mr. 

 Morgan for a minute. You oppose additional regulation, but what 

 would you do to restore public confidence? How do you propose to 

 do that? 



Mr. Morgan. First of all, there are an awful lot of good points to 

 this bill and my testimony properly did not take that effect. 



The two main problems we had with the bill last year and this 

 year were, first of all, that we felt — we feel like that all seafood 

 should be involved with whatever safety regulations are applied to 

 us. 



That is the first thing, because we feel like we have been under 

 the microscope too long. 



Mrs. Unsoeld. May I respond to you on that because I deliber- 

 ately chose only shellfish. I felt that what happens to fish is quite 

 different and shellfish is such a specialized industry and so easily 

 the public could be spooked that I felt that it needed a hand-tai- 

 lored regulation that is worked out with the industry that has fore- 

 most in its own mind wanting to protect its reputation with the 

 public. 



So that was deliberate in order to try to tailor something to 

 shellfish's needs. 



Mr. Morgan. Yes, I see that but we are trying desperately to get 

 out of the limelight. They are still showing shows on Prime Time 

 the night before last, of a show that was two years old with Ellen 

 Hauss and Mr. Kilpatrick. 



Mrs. Unsoeld. I know. 



