expert court witnesses fordocumentation of environmental damages 

 and acceptable mitigation or restoration measures. 



The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has programs to insure 

 the safety, quality, nutritional adequacy and integrity of marine 

 foods. Inspections and analyses of shellfish and other marine food 

 products are conducted by the National Shellfish Sanitation 

 Program (NSSP) and other components of FDA. The NSSP provides 

 comprehensive evaluations of the 23 participating State shellfish 

 programs and four foreign programs to insure compliance with 

 standards. The development of standards plus such training, 

 technical assistance, and such direct field investigations as may be 

 necessary are responsibilities of the Agency. The FDA also conducts 

 inspections and sample examinations of seafood products, other 

 than shellfish, to assure their safety and quality. 



Resource Development 



Short supplies of established fishery products and rising prices on 

 the U.S. market reveal a critical need for improved management of 

 available supplies. 



FISHERY DEVELOPMENT 



An NMFS-industry fishery development program is being 

 formulated. Tentatively, its aspirations include the following: In 

 New England, it hopes to develop a $10-million-a-year industry by 

 1978 by fishing Jonah crab, deep sea red crab, mahogany quahogs, 

 long-finned squid, and mixed fish species such as hake and 

 butterfish. In the Southeast, the supply of croaker and other 

 sciaenids, mackerel, and rock shrimp should be increased by 125 

 million pounds in 3 to 5 years, a $30-million increase in estimated 

 value to U.S. fishermen. In the Northwest, the program hopes to 

 increase supplies of rockfish, sablefish, Pacific hake, and other 

 selected ground fish. The resource potential estimated here is 100 

 million pounds. In Alaska, domestic supplies of pollock, snow crab, 

 and selected groundfish could be increased to a resource potential of 

 approximately 4 billion pounds. In the Great Lakes, domestic 

 supplies of carp, buffalofish, sheepshead, and shad could be 

 increased to an estimated resource potential of 400 million pounds. 

 In the Southwest, the supply of skipjack tuna could be increased by 

 100 million pounds in 3 to 5 years, a $20-million increase in value to 

 fishermen. 



Internationally, the development of fishery resources has been 

 assisted by a five-year institutional grant made by the Agency for 

 International Development (AID) to the University of Rhode Island, 



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