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n BE IT RESOLVED, That the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Ccamission go on 



record as favoring quotas being placed on shrimp importations frcm all foreign 

 countries, in order to encourage the prosecution of the mentioned offshore shrimp 

 fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico by the American fishing industry, and that copies 

 of this resolution be directed to each of the Congressional Delegates of the five _ 

 Gulf States. 



"RESOLVED, That the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Camnlssion hereby reccannends 

 to the Governors and to the Legislatures of the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisi- 

 ana, Mississippi, and Texas the enactment of laws permitting the several States, 

 members of this compact, to enter into reciprocal fisheries agreements -with one 

 another. 



" BE IT RESOLVED, That the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission recom- 

 mends to the Governors and Legislatures of the signatory States that appropriate 

 and adequate funds be made available by enactment of legislation, if necessary, for 

 the purpose of facilitating the research program involving the above designated 

 species (including sea trout, redfish, flounder, mullet, and others) and that such 

 program be administered by the aigency of the state charged with conseirvation of the 

 fishery resources to which the compact pertains and through the research medium 

 representing such agency on the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Camnission." 



North Atlantic Fishery Investigations 



" ALBATROSS III " MADE AVAILABLE TO THE OFFICE OT NAVAL RESEARCH ; Because the 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been unable to operate the Albatross III , the 

 research vessel for the Service's North Atlantic Fishery Investigations, it has 

 been made available to the Office of Naval Research for a period not to exceed one 

 year, ccmmencing February 1, 1951. The vessel will be used in oceanographic re- 

 search. 



The Service has retained the option of using the vessel half time subsequent 

 to July 1951 for continuing fisheries work in the Northwest Atlantic area, subject 

 to availability of funds and mutual agre^nenb with the Office of Naval Research. 



North Pacific Fishery Investigations 



NEW FISHERIES RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR COLUMBIA RIVER ; A new fisheries research 

 program for the Columbia River has been developed by the Service's Branch of Fishery 

 Biology in response to a request for research plans to match a heavy construction 

 schedule of five new high dams proposed for that river. The new program is being 

 made part of the Interior Department program for development of the resources of the 

 Columbia Basin. 



National Defense needs require that this power inci^ase be made now. Fishery 

 interests, however, do not have the knowledge necessary to provide safe passage for 

 anadromous fish past high dams because heretofore the concern has been with low dams 

 (less than 100 feet high) and irrigation diversions. 



