Question: I'm afraid that you can't say that some are not 
doing anything at all. That's just one example. I just wonder 
why the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission isn't 
represented or why it wasn't mentioned. You do have a body 
there that does do some or has some management curfew and who 
could certainly have made some contribution here today. I don't 
represent them, by the way, but I certainly agree with our last 
speaker that we do need this stewardship responsibility. But 
there is one area where we do have a "little say" on the Chesa¬ 
peake Bay..and most of the states have done something on striped 
bass. 
Dr. Kinser: I'll agree with that. That's one I think 
you're involved with through multi-governmental bodies. And in 
the case of the waterfowl, you're dealing with Canada as well. 
Dr. D'Elia: To be sure, the entry of Pennsylvania as a 
full partner last week is an important thing. You can't deny 
that. But that's more, I think, from the point of view of the 
water quality issue than stewardship of the fishery resources. 
Dr. Morris: Aren't they all linked? I mean, to have 
Pennsylvania in finally, even though a reluctant bride, is 
important in terms of solving the problems of the Bay. Unless 
Pennsylvania is willing to put regulation on the industries, 
municipalities, and farmlands that flow into the Susquehanna, I 
doubt that we're going to clean up the Bay. So to have them 
involved in the process is certainly important to the overall 
health of the Bay, I would think. 
Dr. D'Elia: I would agree. What I'm addressing 
particularly is the fisheries efforts in the regulation of 
catches and things like that. Too often we tend to couch the 
Chesapeake Bay as a water quality issue alone and fail to 
consider the impact of overfishing. I think that was made by 
several speakers today. And I think this is the particular 
effort of Mr. Stagg, the preservation of an institution. 
Mr. Eichbaum: I don't think one of the approaches we've 
tried to take in Maryland, and you can quarrel as to whether 
we've been successful or not, is to not have this be a water 
quality issue. The point is that the water quality and habitat 
ought to be there for the fishery resource in its total 
biological sense. 
As I say, you might quarrel with specific elements. And I 
have trouble if we begin to go, kind of break it apart into new 
institutions. We certainly have a fishery issue here, a water 
quality issue here. 
We think that at least some sort of marriage in that area 
between the two is important. And I guess I noticed a last bit 
of that slide so that the fishery subcommittee of the Chesapeake 
Bay Commission was going to be reconstituted. But the speaker 
didn't say anything about that. That might be a good starting 
place to begin to do this. But, again, in the overall context 
of looking at both issues. Okay? 
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