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 1134 Additional copies.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-DEC. 20, 1973

[87 STAT.

SEC. 2. There shall be printed two thousand thirty additional copies ^^ ^^^ document authorized by section 1 of this concurrent resolution, of which one thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate Document Room and one thousand thirty copies shall be for the use of the Senate. P a s s e d December 20, 1973.

December 20, 1973

[H. Con. Res. 375]

"THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES" Resolced by the House of Beppesentatices (the Senate eoneurrhig), Printing as That there shall be printed as a House document with illustrations, addi^tionai^'^pi'es. the booklct entitled "The Supreme Court of the United States"; and that ninety-eight thousand four hundred additional copies shall be printed of which eighty-eight thousand four hundred shall be for the use of the House of Representatives and ten thousand copies shall be for the use of the Joint Committee on Printing. SEC. 2. There shall be printed for the use of the Senate ten thousand three hundred additional copies of the document authorized by section 1 of this concurrent resolution. P a s s e d December 20, 1973. ,,,

December 21, 1973

[s. Con. Res.11]

FISHING INDUSTRY Whereas the })Osition of the United States in world fisheries has declined from first to sixth place among the major fishing nations; AVhereas there has been a continuing decline in domestic production of food fish and shellfisli for the last five years; Whereas our domestic fishing fleet in many areas has become obsolete and inefficient; Whereas intensive foreign fisliing along our coasts has brought about declines in stocks of a number of species with resulting economic hardship to local domestic fishermen dependent upon such stocks; Whereas rising costs and extremely high insurance rates have made fishing uneconomic in some areas even when stocks of fish and shellfish are at normal levels; Whereas assistance to fishermen is very limited as contrasted to Federal aid to industrial, commercial, and agricultural interests; Whereas United States fishermen camiot successfully compete against imported fish products in the market because a number of foreign fisliing countries subsidize their fishing industry to a greater extent; Whereas some 60 per centum of the seafood recpiirements of the United States is being supplied by imports: Whereas the United States fisheries and fishing industry is a valuable natural resource supplying employment and income to thousands of people in all of ourcoastal States;

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