mand, turned out to be unsupportable for 1980, once again the target 

 would have to be changed. And so on. 



NACOA reaffirms the desirability of setting such a market target with 

 due regard for the practical limits on any individual species, and then 

 working backwards to see what would be required of U.S. science and 

 industry to supply that market, and what else in the way of legislation or 

 government programs would have to be done to make these requirements 

 achievable. Setting a target is simply a way of looking at it all together. 

 If a gap shows up between what is aimed for and what one can expect, 

 it might indicate increased emphasis on aquaculture, or the desirability 

 of changing the requirements for fishing-vessel construction, or the need 

 for limiting entry in some fisheries, or the need to emphasize certain 

 problems for research, or for working at reducing social costs, etc. One 

 cannot go at this fisher)- by fishery. Each has to be looked at nationally 

 and all at the same time. 



Planning, Regulation, and Enforcement 



In any brief exposition of an approach to a complicated problem, em- 

 phasis on certain fundamental steps should not be taken as disregard for 

 other, perhaps equally critical steps, which will have to be taken later on. 

 NACOA is aware that a target is not a plan, and a plan is not action. 

 The course of action, which will have to be worked out in detail, must 

 be worked out against a general understanding of the importance of fisher- 

 ies to the United States and with due regard for the interaction between 

 economic, biologic, legal, and market problems. NACOA maintains its 

 belief that, given some assurance of the continued availability of the 

 resource, and assurance of the right to fish for a specified tonnage, in- 

 dividual enterprise would find an attractive economic environment had 

 been created because uncertainties would then be limited to the normal 

 risks of doing business. But an "atmosphere for redevelopment" means only 

 that there is a chance to succeed, it does not mean that success is guaran- 

 teed. To provide that chance, the steps have to be taken with due regard 

 for the following six conditions: 



• Fisheries, as part of tlie national wealth, are a resource which we must 

 husband. 



• Conservation by agreement, by regulation, and by uniform national 

 and international enforcement, is a necessary consequence of this 

 regard. 



• Jurisdictional problems, while among the most difficult to solve, are 

 nonetheless susceptible to attack because they lie among the issues 

 which can be resolved by patience, facts, and negotiation. 



• Conservation is not realistically achievable by biological management 



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