fisheries management, and many are tough challenges. However, 
it seems to us that the greatest challenge isn't scientific. 
Rather, it is to get people to think about the right thing. 
The challenge is not the development of many fishery 
management plans or stock assessments (and we are not minimizing 
the importance of rational day-to-day fishery management). 
Rather, it JLs to create an institution that can marshall 
scientific expertise on fishes and the environment of fish, an 
institution to "formalize cooperative fisheries management, 
research and statistical collection efforts." An institution 
that would do this was proposed in the Report of Workshop on 
Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Statistics , held in Fredricksburg, 
Virginia, in July of 1982. A Chesapeake Bay Cooperative 
Fisheries Investigation Unit to coordinate the activities of 
state and Federal agencies and academic institutions should be 
formed without further delay. Possibly, CBSAC will adopt and 
effect this role. 
First, this would provide for coordination of information 
on stocks and environmental information relevant to stocks. 
Secondly, it would provide a mechanism for publishing reports 
and scientific papers. Third, it would provide a mechanism for 
annual coordinated sampling cruises for the entire Bay. Fourth, 
it would provide an annual meeting to discuss in detail 
scientific topics of concern. And lastly, it would provide a 
sounding board to address scientific questions that might 
involve fishes that live in the waters of both states and the 
District of Columbia as well. 
To conclude, from a fisheries management viewpoint, the 
greatest challenge is to create an institution to formalize 
cooperative fisheries management, research, and statistical 
collection efforts. While institutions exist which could 
develop, facilitate, and coordinate the approaches we have 
specified, the simple fact is that these necessary actions are 
not now being done. 
Thank you. 
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