July 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



109 



FISH PROTEIN CONCENTRATE PLANTS : Senate 

 received May 12. 1966, a joint resolution of the Legis- 

 lature of the State of California memorializing the 

 Congress to enact legislation at the earliest possible 

 date to authorize construction of experimental fish pro- 

 tein concentrate plants. 



Senate Committee on Commerce held hearings May 

 16, 1966, on S. 2720 , to authorize development of a 

 practical means for production of fish protein concen- 

 trate. Hearings continued. 



H.R . 15099 (Hathaway) introduced in House May 17, 

 1966, to Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisherias. 



Sen. Bartlett inserted in Congressional Record, 

 June 1. 1966 (pp. 11394-11397), a speech given by Sen. 

 Magnuson on Apr. 25, in Aberdeen, Wash., at hearings 

 conducted on S. 2720 . 



FOREIGN FISHING OFF U. S^ COAST : Sen. Magnu- 

 son spoke in the Senate ( Congressional Record , May 16, 

 1966, pp. 10166-10169) and stated there is growing 

 concern over the threat to national security posed by 

 Soviet fishing fleets off our coasts and inserted in the 

 Record the text of a number of telegrams he received 

 from citizens of Washington expressing such concern. 

 He planned to have Navy witnesses appear at hearings 

 on S. 2218 , a bill to establish a contiguous fishery zone 

 beyond the territorial sea of the United States, so as to 

 ascertain the correctness of quotations which appeared 

 in the March 1966 Navy magazine which told of Soviet 

 Union trawlers placing homing devices on our Conti- 

 nental Shelf seabed. He presented a program of 1 1 

 principles as a method of achievement toward national 

 security and fishery protection. 



Sen. Morse inserted in Congressional Record , May 

 16, 1966 (pp. 10169-10171), the text of a letter from the 

 State Department dated May 9, in answer to his letter 

 of Apr. 25, on the subject. Also inserted text of a let- 

 ter on the subject from the Director, Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries, dated May 2, 1966, in reply to his 

 letter of Apr. 25. 



Rep. Rogers spoke in the Senate ( Congressional Rec - 

 ord , May 18, 1966 (pp. 10377-10378), and expressed his 

 concern about Russian oceanographic vessels opera- 

 ting in waters near the coast of Florida. He urged the 

 Defense Department to give higher priority to this Na- 

 tion's efforts to win the "wet space race." 



Sen. Magnuson spoke in the Senate ( Congressjfe -r'vl ' 

 Record , May 19, 1965, p. 10509), concerning stall 'fien's 

 made on the Senate floor on the danger of "homif% 

 vices" which a Navy magazine article charged wk '~ 

 found by the U.S. Navy on our Continental Shelf wn>MT"' 

 according to the author were placed there by the Soviet 

 trawl fleet. He inserted the text of a resolution he re- 

 ceived from the King County Television Service Associ- 

 ation, Inc., expressing deep concern as to the potential 

 dangers of such devices. 



Rep. Keith in extension of his remarks inserted in 

 Congressional Record. May 25, 1966 (p. A2838), an ar- 

 ticle from the May 21, 1966, edition of the Boston Her - 

 ald titled "United States to Seek An End To Red Over- 

 fishing" by Paul Giguere. 



Sen. Magnuson inserted in Congressional Record. 

 May 27, 1966 (pp. 1 12 12-112 15), anaffidavit concerning 

 the taking of salmon by foreign fishing vessels off the 

 Washington and Oregon coasts. He stated that the U. S. 



should declare an immediate conservation moratorium 

 on foreign fishing on the stocks of salmon and Pa- 

 cific hake until such time as the conservation re- 

 quirements of those stocks can be determined. 



Senate June 6, 1966, received a joint resolution 

 from the Legislature of the State of California memo- 

 rializing Congress to take the necessary action to en- 

 sure adequate protection to the marine resources of 

 California, to step up the program to monitor the ac- 

 tivities of Soviet vessels off the Pacific Coast, and to 

 keep the State fully informed of such activities. The 

 resolution was referred to Committee on Commerce. 



Sen. Jackson inserted in Congressional Record . June 

 1, 1966 (pp. 11461-11463), an article from the May 28, 

 1966, issue of the Ev erett Herald titled "Russ Roulett: 

 Fishing at Stake" by Alan Dawson, Jr. and an article 

 from the May 1966 issue of the Pacific Fisherman 

 titled "Big Soviet Bottomfish Fleet Fishes Off Coast of 

 Washington and Oregon." 



FUR SEAL CONSERVATION AND PRIBILOF ^- 

 LANDS ADMINISTRATION: The Senate Committee on 

 Commerce, May 17, 1966, in executive session, ordered 

 reported favorably with an amendment in the nature of 

 a substitute, S. 2102 , a bill to protect and conserve the 

 North Pacific fur seals, and to administer the Pribilof 

 Islands for the conservation of fur seals and other wild- 

 life. On June 9, 1966, the Committee reported the bill 

 S. Rept . 1235 . 



GREEK-TURKISH ECONOMIC REPORT - - FISHER - 

 IES : Sen. Javits inserted in Congressional Record , 

 June 1, 1966 (pp. 11373-11376), a report he submitted 

 to the Special Committee on Less Developed NATO 

 Countries on May 12, 1966, concerning status of the 

 project for Greek-Turkish economic cooperation. Fish- 

 eries was one of the projects listed in the report. 



INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS FY 1967 : Senate May 

 12, 1966, passed (motion to reconsider tabled) H.R. 

 14215 , fiscal 1967 appropriations for the Department 

 of the Interior and related agencies, after adopting com- 

 mittee amendments en bloc which were then considered 

 as original text for purpose of further amendment; and 

 a technical perfecting amendment by Senator Bible re- 

 specting fisheries conservation. Senate insisted on its 

 amendments, asked for conference with House, and ap- 

 pointed conferees. 



House May 16, 1966, disagreed to Senate amend- 

 ments to H.R. 14215 , agreed to a conference with the 

 Senate, and appointed conferees. 



The Committee on Conference filed a conference re- 

 port on H.R. 14215 ( H. Rept . 1538 ). Text of the report 

 is printed in Congressional Record , May 17, 1966 (pp. 

 10314-10316), together with a statement by the man- 

 agers on the part of the House. The Committee on Conference's 

 recommendations on the Senate amendments wliich pertain to 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries: 



Amendment No . 18. Appropriates $20,701,000 for 

 management and investigations of resources instead of 

 $20,312,000 as proposed by the House and $21,076,000 

 as proposed by the Senate. The increase over the House 

 bill includes: $90,000 for tail water research and ex- 

 pansion of biological investigation, disappearance of mi- 

 grating fish, upper reaches of the Columbia River Ba- 

 sin; and $50,000 for expanded development of the Pacif- 

 ic Hake Fishery program. 



