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terlor (1) to promote the free flow of domestically 

 produced fishery products in commerce by conduct- 

 ing a fishery educational service and fishery tech- 

 nological, biological and related research programs, 

 the moneys so transferred to be also available for 

 the purchase or other acquisition, construction, 

 equipment, operation, and maintenance of vessels or 

 other facilities necessary for conducting research as 

 provided for in this section, and (2) to develop and 

 Increase markets for fishery products of domestic 

 origin and (3) to conduct any biological, technologi- 

 cal, or other research pertaining to American 

 fisheries. 



(b) Transfer of vessels or equipment by agencies. 



For the purposes of this section, any agency of the 

 United States, or any corporation wholly owned by 

 the United States, is authorized to transfer, without 

 reimbursement or transfer of funds, any vessels or 

 equipment excess to its needs required by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior for the activities, studies, and 

 research authorized herein. 



(c) Cooperation by Secretary of Interior with other 

 agencies, etc.; advisory committee. 



In carrying out the purposes and objectives of this 

 section, the Secretary of the Interior is directed as 

 far as practicable to cooperate with other appropri- 

 ate agencies of the Federal Government, with State 

 or local governmental agencies, private agencies, or- 

 ganizations, or individuals, having Jurisdiction over 

 or an interest in fish or fishery commodities and he 

 is authorized to appoint an advisory committee of 

 the American fisheries industry to advise him in the 

 formulation of policy, rules and regulations pertain- 



ing to requests for assistance, and other matters. 



(d) Retransfer of funds for purposes of section 713c-2. 



The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized 

 to retransfer any of the funds not to exceed $1,- 

 500,000 to be made available under this section to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to be used for the pur- 

 poses specified in section 713c-2 of this title, and 

 only such funds as are thus transferred shall be 

 used for the purposes specified in section 713c-2 of 

 this title with respect to domestically produced 

 fishery products. 



;(e) Availability of funds. 



The separate fund created for the use of the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior under subsection (a) of this 

 section and the annual accruals thereto shall be 

 available for each year hereafter until expended by 

 the Secretary. (Aug. 11. 1939, ch. 696, § 2, 53 Stat. 

 1412; July 1, 1954, ch. 447, 68 Stat. 376; Aug. 8, 

 1956, en. 1036, § 12(b), 70 Stat. 1124; Nov. 8, 1965, 

 Pub. L. 89-348, § 1(13), 79 Stat. 1311.) 

 Amendments 



1965 — Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 89-348 repealed subaec. (f) 

 which required an annual report to the appropriate com- 

 mittees of Congress on the use of the separate fund. 



1956 — Subsec. (e). Act Aug. 8, 1956, ehmlnated pro- 

 visions which limited expenditures to not more than 

 $3,000,000 In any fiscal year, reetrlcted the balance ot 

 the fund to not more than $5,000,000 at the end of any 

 fiscal year, and required the Secretary of the Interior to 

 retransfer funds In excess of the $5,000,000 to the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. 



1954 — Act July 1, 1954, amended section generaUy 

 further to encourage the distribution of fishery products. 



8. Regulation of Fishing Voyages 



46 U.S.C. 531-534 



Sec. 



531. Agreement for fishing voyage. 



532. Penalty for violating agreement. 



533. Recovery of shares of fish under agreement. 



534. Discharge of vessel on bond by owner. 



§ 531. Agreement for fishing voyage. 



The master of any vessel of the burden of twenty 

 tons or upward, qualified according to law for carry- 

 ing on the bank and other cod fisheries, or the mack- 

 erel fishery, bound from a port of the United States 

 to be employed in any such fishery, at sea, shall, be- 

 fore proceeding on such fishing voyage, make an 

 agreement in writing with every fisherman who may 

 be employed therein, except only an apprentice or 

 servant of himself or owner, and, in addition to such 

 terms of shipment as may be agreed on, shall, in 

 such agreement, express whether the same is to con- 

 tinue for one voyage or for the fishing season, and 

 shall also express that the fish or the proceeds of 

 such fishing voyage or voyages which may appertain 

 to the fishermen shall be divided among them in 

 proportion to the quantities or number of such fish 

 which they may respectively have caught. Such 

 agreement shall be indorsed or countersigned by the 

 owner of such fishing vessel or his agent. (R. S. 

 § 4391.) 



§ 532. Penalty for violating agreement. 



If any fisherman, having engaged himself for a 

 voyage or for the fishing season in any fishing vessel 

 and signed an agreement therefor, thereafter and 

 while such agreement remains in force and to be 

 performed deserts or absents himself from such ves- 

 sel without leave of the master thereof, or of the 

 owner or his agent, such deserter shall be liable to 

 the same f>enalties as deserting seamen are subject 

 to in the merchant service, and may in the like man- 

 ner, and upon the like complaint and proof, be ap- 

 prehended and detained; and all costs of process 

 and commitment, if paid by the master or owner, 

 shall be deducted out of the share of fish or proceeds 

 of any fishing voyage to which such deserter had or 

 shall become entitled. Every fisherman, having so 

 engaged himself, who during such fishing voyage 

 refuses or neglects his proper duty on board the fish- 

 ing vessel, being thereto ordered or required by the 

 master thereof, or otherwise resists his just com- 

 mands to the hinderance or detriment of such voy- 

 age, besides being answerable for all damages aris- 



