the Department of Commerce is moving ahead to engage the 

 several coastal states in a resource-oriented cooperative State/ 

 Federal fisheries management program. 



It is steps such as these that NACOA says will provide the 

 proper environment for basic inducements for investment and 

 venture, and we agree. 



The Committee suggests that national planning for rehabilitation 

 of our fisheries should be based on a set of specific goals. They feel 

 that only then can programs for achieving such goals be instituted. 

 They do not minimize the difficulties of either setting such national 

 goals or developing the plans for achieving them. We agree the 

 matter is not simple. NACOA suggests that the basic national 

 fisheries goal be set in terms of a specific percentage of the share 

 of the domestic market to be supplied by our domestic fisheries. 

 They recommend, as a goal, increasing the present share of the 

 Nation's fisheries needs supplied by domestic industry from 30% 

 to 40% ... an increase in the domestic catch from 2.5 billion 

 to 3.5 billion pounds of fish annually. 



Such a goal would reduce our dependence on foreign sources, 

 reduce significantly our present billion-dollar trade deficit in 

 fisheries products, and increase employment in a rejuvenated 

 industry. Such an increase in our domestic industry is to take 

 place against a backdrop of a rational fisheries management system. 



I believe that the implications and consequences of such a fisheries 

 goal should be explored fully before it is set as a national target, 

 so that we can understand the costs involved and other policy 

 implications, such as effects on domestic fish prices to the consumer 

 and effects on tariff and trade policy. 



WEATHER MODIFICATION 



I believe that NACOA has correctly assessed the exciting outlook 

 in the field of weather modification. There is no question that 

 developments of the last decade have put us on the threshold of 

 weather control. To realize the potential of this new technology, 

 the Committee urges action in the field of legislation, research 

 and technology, hurricane control, public policy and international 

 relations. 



I welcome both the Committee's analysis of the present status 

 of weather modification technology and its many recommendations 

 for action. The present national plans for development of this 



