2, Multi-Jurisdictional Management - Many of the Chesapeake 
Bay's resources, including striped bass, blue crabs, and Ameri¬ 
can eels, are composed of single migratory stocks, however, they 
are managed independently by at least Maryland, Virginia, the 
Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and the District of Colum¬ 
bia. There are various degrees of interstate cooperation. At 
the present time, there is no mechanism which ensures the formal 
exchange of technical information on the resources of the Bay, 
nor is there an organization with the authority and expertise to 
enforce interstate fisheries regulations. 
3. Institutional Building - We believe that there needs to 
be a means of coordinating in a formal setting the activities of 
the many research institutions and management agencies in the 
whole Chesapeake Bay Region, so that the quality of over-all 
fisheries research can be enhanced. 
Progress 
However, this is not to say that progress in some of these 
areas is not being made. For example, consider the following 
activities: 
1. The NOAA appropriation of $1.5 million dollars for FY 1985, 
with $720,000 budgeted for conducting observations on living 
marine resources and $135,000 budgeted for improving fishery 
statistics. 
A group that includes many of the scientists and managers 
involved with the Chesapeake Bay fisheries, called the Chesa¬ 
peake Bay Stock Assessment Committee (CBSAC) has been formed to 
oversee this work. This group includes managers from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Federal 
Government, and representatives from the scientific community. 
The Committee was formed to develop a cooperative Chesapeake Bay 
Stock Assessment Program. However, this group does not have the 
authority to manage fisheries; and Federal funding is on a year- 
to-year basis. 
2. Fishery management plans are being developed for a number of 
major fisheries by both Maryland and Virginia and informal co¬ 
operation is envisioned as these plans are prepared. 
What are the scientific challenges ? 
We looked at some of the scientific challenges in a very 
brief way when we considered some of the day-to-day problems of 
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