September 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



81 



Eighty-Ninth Congress 

 (Second Session) 



Public bills and 

 resolutions which 

 may directly or in- 

 directly affect the 

 fisheries and allied 

 industries are re- 

 ported upon. Intro- 

 duction, referral to 

 committees, per- 

 tinent legislative 

 actions by the House 

 and Senate, as well as signature into law or 

 other final disposition are covered. 



ALEWIFE EXPLOSION - GREAT LAKES : Rep. Za- 

 blocki spoke in the House concerning the population 

 explosion of alewives in the Great Lakes and inserted 

 in Congressional Record , Aug. 11, 1966 (p. A4253), an 

 editorial published in the Milwaukee Journal , titled 

 "Milwaukee- -With Lamprey Losing, It's TimetoStart 

 on Alewife." Rep. Zablocki stated 'For example, in 

 Lake Michigan alone it is estimated that there may be 

 as many as 10 billion alewife." Rep. Zablocki urged 

 that a crash action program be authorized to curb the 

 alewife problem. 



COMMODITY PACKAGING AND LABELING : House 

 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce July 

 26-29, 1966, met to consider H. R. 15440 and related 

 bills, to regulate interstate and foreign commerce by 

 preventing the use of unfair or deceptive methods of 

 packaging or labeling of certain consumer commodi- 

 ties distributed in such commerce. 



House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- 

 merce July 26, 1966, held hearings on H. R . 15440 . 

 Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 

 held meeting on the same bill July 27, 1966. 



H, R. 16566 (Clevenger), introduced in House July 

 27, 1966, a bill to regulate interstate and foreign com- 

 merce by preventing the use of unfair or deceptive 

 methods of packaging or labeling of certain consumer 

 commodities distributed in such commerce, and for 

 other purposes; to the Committee on Merchant Marine 

 and Fisheries. 



House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com- 

 merce continued hearings on H. R. 15440 . and related 

 bills, on July 27, 1966. 



CONSUMER SUBCOMMITTEE, SENATE COMMIT - 

 TEE ON COMMERCE: Sen. Magnuson spoke in the 

 Senate TCongressional Record , Aug. 12, 1966, p. 18427), 

 and announced the creation of a new standing Con- 

 sumer Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce. 

 He stated that legislation directly affecting the rights 

 or interests Of consumers, previously considered be- 

 fore the full committee, will be processed by the Con- 

 sumer Subcommittee. The subcommittee will be 

 chaired by Sen. Magnuson. He stated that in particu- 

 lar, the subcommittee will periodically review the con- 

 sumer protection activities of such agencies as the ^ 

 Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce, 

 and with respect to the Hazardous Substances Act and 



the Packaging and Labeling Act, the Food and Drug 

 Administration. Sen. Magnuson said the subcommittee 

 should provide an important forum for the exchange of 

 views on consumer protection with affected industries. 



FISHERIES CONFERENCE : Sen. Kennedy (Mass.) 

 spoke in the Senate ( Congress^ional Record , Aug. 3, 

 1966, p. 17231). concerning the United States-U. S. S. R. 

 fisheries conference held in July 1966, which dealt, 

 among other things, with problems involving Soviet 

 fishing fleets fishing off the Atlantic coast of the United 

 States and off the west coast. He stated the Soviets 

 agreed at this meeting not to fish within 12 miles of the 

 Oregon and Washington coast lines, and that they also 

 agreed to a complete exchange of scientific and statis- 

 tical information in order to determine the exact ex- 

 tent to which depletion of our salmon runs is taking 

 place off our shores. He also stated he intends to rec- 

 ommend that the scientific meeting to be held on this 

 subject some time in fall 1966 be followed by a meeting 

 with the Soviets which would include representatives of 

 the administration, the Congress, and industry so that 

 an understanding can be reached with them which will 

 insure in the future the cons'ervation of fishing re- 

 sources off the east coast. 



FISHERMEN'S PROTECTION ACT REVISION : Sen. 

 Kuchel spoke in the Senate ( Congressional Record , 

 July 21, 1966, pp. 15785-157 86), concerning a four 

 point program which he proposed to insure the protec- 

 tion and preservation of our fishing activities off Latin 

 America. The Senator inserted in the Record two let- 

 ters--one from the Department of State, and one from 

 the American Tuna Boat Association. 



FISHING LIMIT OF 12 MILES : Twelve- Mile Fish - 

 ery Zone: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Mer- 

 chant Marine and Fisheries of the Committee on Com- 

 merce, United States Senate, 89th Congress, 2nd ses- 

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

 zone beyond the territorial sea of the United States, 

 May 18, 19, and 20, 1966, Serial No. 89-65, 186 pp., 

 printed. Contains text, agency comments, statements, 

 letters, telegrams, miscellaneous information from 

 various Federal officials, members of Congress, and 

 representatives of various associations. 



Rep. Hanner in extension of remarks inserted in 

 Congressional Record , July 18, 1966 (pp. A3765-A3768), 

 two documents concerning legislation to provide a 12- 

 mile fishery limit. The first is a letter from Dr. W. M. 

 Chapman, Director of the Division of Research for Van 

 Camp Sea Food Co., and a member of the Governor's 

 Advisory Commission on Ocean Resoui;ces for Califor- 

 nia. The other is a report entitled "Consideration of 

 the Effects of Foreign Fishery Activities Off the State 

 of California: Outline of the Problem," by Dr. M. B. 

 Schaefer, who is a member of the staff of Scripps In- 

 stitute on Oceanography. 



The Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Con- 

 servation of the House Committee on Merchant Marine 

 and Fisheries met in executive session, July 26, 1966, 

 and approved for full committee action H. R. 9531 

 (amended), to establish a contiguous fisheries zone 

 beyond the territorial sea of the United States. 



FISH PROTEIN CONCENTRATE PLANTS : Fish 

 Protein Concentrat e: Hearings before the Committee 

 on Commerce, United States Senate, 89th Congress, 

 2nd session on S. 2720, a bill to authorize the Secretary 

 of the Interior to develop, through the use of experi- 

 ment and demonstration plants, practicable and econom- 

 ic means for the production by the commercial fishing 



