16 U.S.C. § 742d — Investigations; preparation and dissemination of information; reports

submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1036 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 200 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must keep investigating and reporting on domestic and foreign fish production, fish and wildlife resources, the economic position of fish products, fishing and wildlife statistics, production and marketing practices, education, and other fish-and-wildlife matters of public interest.

(a) The Secretary must continuously investigate these matters, prepare and share information about them, and periodically report to the public, the President, and Congress: (1) Domestic fish and fishery-product production and movement to markets, and foreign production that affects domestic fisheries; (2) the availability, abundance, and biological needs of fish and wildlife resources; (3) the competitive economic position of different fish and fishery products compared with one another and with competing domestic and foreign commodities; (4) statistics about commercial and sport fishing; (5) statistics about wildlife and its availability, progress in acquiring more refuges, and steps to promote a coordinated program encouraging and developing wildlife values; (6) better production and marketing practices for commercial species and educational and extension services about commercial and sport fishing and wildlife; and (7) any other fish-and-wildlife operational matter the Secretary considers of public interest.

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(a)

1 The Secretary shall conduct continuing investigations, prepare and disseminate information, and make periodical reports to the public, to the President, and to Congress, with respect to the following matters:

(1)

The production and flow to market of fish and fishery products domestically produced, and also those produced by foreign producers which affect the domestic fisheries;

(2)

The availability and abundance and the biological requirements of the fish and wildlife resources;

(3)

The competitive economic position of the various fish and fishery products with respect to each other, and with respect to competitive domestic and foreign-produced commodities;

(4)

The collection and dissemination of statistics on commercial and sport fishing;

(5)

The collection and dissemination of statistics on the nature and availability of wildlife, progress in acquisition of additional refuges and measures being taken to foster a coordinated program to encourage and develop wildlife values;

(6)

The improvement of production and marketing practices in regard to commercial species and the conduct of educational and extension services relative to commercial and sport fishing, and wildlife matters;

(7)

Any other matters which in the judgment of the Secretary are of public interest in connection with any phases of fish and wildlife operations.

Source credit: (Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, § 5, 70 Stat. 1121.)

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1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036 · 70 Stat. 1121

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