Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 758a


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 758a. Conduct of explorations and related work in Pacific Ocean

      The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to conduct
    such fishing explorations and such necessary related work as
    oceanographical, biological, technological, statistical, and
    economic studies to insure maximum development and utilization of
    the high seas fishery resources of the United States and its island
    possessions in the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean and
    intervening areas as may be consistent with developing and
    sustaining such fishery resources at maximum levels of production
    in perpetuity and to provide for the best possible utilization
    thereof.



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