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U.'S. assistance to Korean fisheries is designed to assure an increase in the 

 ^annual catch proportionate to the anticipated annual increases in consumption. 

 Concurrently AID and the ROKG have, or are in the process of obligating from 

 the U.S. program, $3 million in DL funds for the construction of fishing vessels 

 primarily for coastal fishing (two long-liners of approximately 300 tons dis- 

 placement ; five live bait boats and some 350 tons displacement ; ten 70 ton 

 shrimp trawlers, and two refrigerated vessels of from 800 to 1,000 tons each) ; 

 $200,000 in DL funds to finance a study to improve the local fishing industry ; 

 and approximately $50,000 in DG funds to finance the salaries of two U.S. 

 fishing advisors. 



]Mr. Pelly. It is hard for me to reconcile on the one hand your 

 statement that we are trying to assist these countries in developing 

 conmiercial processes and, on the other, a long song and dance about 

 how we ourselves are trying to develop a process so we can sell to 

 the foreign countries. Certainly we want to export goods. We need the 

 dollars. However, it does not seem to me that the two programs har- 

 monize with each other. Poor countries certainly must learn to catch 

 their fish, process it, and market it, but in so doing will not our own 

 overseas market be diminished ? 



Mr. Wateks. That is right. We are moving on both fronts. We have 

 learned from the food distribution programs under Public Law 480 

 that in the long run our goal must be to eliminate the causes of de- 

 pendence on food aid. We must get them to plan their production 

 IDatterns to be able to meet their own requirements or earn enough to 

 buy the additional amounts from the world market rather than under 

 the aid programs. 



Mr. Pellt. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries is under the juris- 

 diction of this committee, and the Subcommittee on Fisheries and 

 Wildlife has heard considerable about fish protein concentrate. We are 

 ver^- much interested in it and think it has great possibilities. 



Your statement on this subject sounds as if maybe we are duplicat- 

 ing work in this field. I hope that is not the case. 



Mr. Waters. No, not at all, Congressman. We work hand-in-hand 

 with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. In fact, under the assign- 

 ment of the Marine Resources Council as being the coordinating 

 agency, I have been desigiiated Chairman of the Food From the Sea 

 Interagency Committee, which includes the group of agencies that are 

 involved and have a sharing of interest. 



Actually, our Agency does not try to maintain a large staff itself 

 or to do much of the teclinical work itself. We do these activities 

 under participating agency service agreements where we pro^dde the 

 funding for work by t:he Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. In fact, we 

 pay for their assistance in our overseas work as well as last year we 

 transferred $200,000 to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries to help 

 with their pilot plant on fish protein concentrate. 



Mr. Pelly. Do you know if they have selected a site for the research 

 plant? 



My. Waters. I understand that is ready to go very shortly. 



Mr. Parmaist. I have not heard. 



Mr. Pelly. I understand the plant is to be constructed pursuant to 

 legislation passed upon by this committee and enacted which seeks to 

 develop a low-cost, wholesome fish protein powder which your Ageucy, 

 among others, might use. Are you working on this ? 



