European brown trout, and the Pacific salmons (chinook and coho). 

 FWS, through its program on fishery research and sport fish 

 management, has been able to develop and disseminate information 

 needed for the protection and enhancement of freshwater fishery 

 resources, and to provide technical assistance to State conservation 

 agencies and Indian tribes in the management of waters for sport 

 fishing. 



The FWS research program has expanded our knowledge of fish 

 physiology and behavior, as influenced by usual or abnormal 

 environmental variables. This new information has been used 

 primarily to improve the management of public fishery resources, 

 and secondarily to advance related private enterprises. The FWS 

 provides fisheries assistance by conducting biological examinations 

 of aquatic habitats and offers specific recommendations based on 

 the conditions found to exist. Stocking from National Fish 

 Hatcheries may be one of the management tools considered to 

 improve the resource. 



Through the Anadromous Fish Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-304), FWS and 

 NOAA are able to cooperate with the States and other non-Federal 

 interests in the conservation, development, and enhancement of the 

 Nation's anadromous fishes in the Great Lakes as well as in the 

 oceans. This program is divided between FWS, which is responsible 

 for the Great Lakes, and NMFS, which is responsible for the other 

 three coasts. Basically, the program consists of making funds 

 available for spawning-area improvement, installation of fishways, 

 construction of fish protection devices and hatcheries, and research 

 to improve management and increase anadromous fish resources. 

 Funds cannot be used for law enforcement, public relations, or 

 construction of facilities and vessels, the primary purpose of which 

 is to harvest, handle, and process fishery products. In addition, these 

 funds cannot be used for projects in the Columbia River Basin. These 

 projects are funded from other sources. 



Basic fishery research and management of coastal, estuarine, and 

 anadromous species is also financed under the Dingell-Johnson 

 Program through grants to the States. Research monies are also 

 available to the States through financial grants from the Sea Grant 

 Program. 



Fishery management through the construction of facilities has 

 been an important part of the Land and Water Conservation Fund 

 Program. In addition to the support of facilities already mentioned, 

 fund monies have been used to develop fishing piers in Alabama, 

 California, Georgia, Maryland, and Texas, and an artificial reef in 

 South Carolina. It is expected that the development of such facilities 

 will expand in the future with closer working relationships between 

 the Federal agencies and the States that seek such facilities. 



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