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Excerpt from National Aquaculture Act of 1979 The subcommittees met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 1301, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. E de la Garza (chairman of the Subcommittee on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research) presiding. Present: Representatives Jones of Tennessee, Baldus, Daschle, Wampler, and Marlenee. Staff present: John E. Hogan, counsel; William A. Imhof and J. Robert Franks, associate counsels; Peggy L. Pecore, clerk; Robert A. Cashdollar, Humberto R. Pena, Gerald Jorgensen, Wayne Fletcher, and Thomas Adams. Mr. de la Garza. The Subcommittees on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research and Conservation and Credit will come to order. This morning the Subcommittees on Department Investigations, Oversight, and Research and Conservation and Credit meet to consider H.R. 20, the National Aquaculture Act of 1979. As you know, for many years aquaculture was considered a part-time occupation for some weekend fish farmer. Today aquaculture is becoming a recognized business in the United States. Private aquaculture has great potential as an industry that will supply a major source of protein for the future. Americans are now consuming 1.6 million pounds of shrimp daily, 60 percent of which is caught within 200 miles of our own coasts, and 40 percent imported from other countries. Since foreign countries export only surplus stock, America will be placed in a most vulnerable position in the case of severe food shortages or in case a decision is made not to export fish products to us. H.R. 20 is a viable piece of legislation that will give us direction in the field of agriculture. I support this main thrust. However, I would state at the onset that "fish farming" is an agricultural enterprise and should be treated as such. As it stands now, three Departments would share responsibility for the long-term development of aquaculture, that is, Agriculture, Interior, and Commerce. 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.