Excerpt from Fishery Conservation and Management Act Oversight: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session, on Oversight of the Fcma and S. 3050, April 26, 27, and June 5, 1978 This generation of neglect of American fisheries has now come to an end. The importance of the American commercial fishery resource is once again gaining recognition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.