NATIONAL FISHERIES PLAN 
I am pleased that the committee which initiated this plan 
through its recommendation calling for a national fisheries plan, 
regards the planning effort of the National Marine Fisheries 
Service of the Department of Commerce/NOAA as satisfactory 
and responsive to its original recommendation. 
WEATHER MODIFICATION AND FOOD 
The committee has once again commented on the need for a 
new and vigorous approach to the problems of weather modifi- 
cation, calling attention to the possible applications of weather 
modification for increasing food production in marginal weather 
conditions. We agree with NACOA that this is an area for atten- 
tion. As I indicated in my comments of last year, the Adminis- 
tration believes that the best way to overcome the existing disper- 
sion of activities in weather modification is to bring into being 
the Deparement of Energy and Natural Resources which would 
assemble most of those groups presently active in weather modifi- 
cation in a single department. One of the major points empha- 
sized by NACOA in its previous as well as the present report, is 
the need to establish international agreement on mechanisms to 
ensure that all weather modification efforts are devoted to peace- 
ful and mutually beneficial purposes. I am pleased to be able to 
report to the committee that this topic was discussed at the 
June 1974 summit meeting in Moscow between President Nixon 
and General Secretary Brezhnev. These conversations have re- 
sulted in an agreement which provides for the opening of con- 
sultations between the Soviet Union and the United States look- 
ing towards the questions raised by the committee. Because of 
the great importance of this development and the importance 
attached to it by the President, the full text of the agreement 
reached in Moscow is as follows: 
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics; 
Desiring to limit the potential danger to mankind from possible new 
means of warfare; 
Taking into consideration the scientific and technical advances in 
environmental fields, including climate modification, may open 
possibilities for using environmental modification techniques for 
military purposes; 
12 
