| Show government promises aid for fisheries important industry at last to get attention washington the vast atlan Atlantic tie 1 coastal i fishing Indu industry itry worth hundreds of millions of dollars at last is to io get a share of the federal federal gov govi i ern ments p protective attenson atte nUon commerce and state department officials it was learned recently ore are making plans plane to negotiate important fish treaties with canada mexico and seve several ial additional latin american countries for the protection of the existing of migratory fish in the Atlantic Atlant fc on the basis of this treaty it was learned congress probably glube will be asked migratory fish control legislation for interstate as well as international application proponents of the treaty pointed out that constitutional limitations limitation i made it impossible for congress to enact any migratory bird legislation until the bird fi treaty cats with canada was negotiated and ratified but a supreme court ruling held that this treaty made it incumbent upon con gress to pass legislation to effect the treaty the same system is being followed in the case of migratory fish most important among the migra tory fish from a commercial as well as sporting point of view are the striped bass and the bluefish the latter are particularly important por tant in that they spend most of their existence either moving from north to south along the coast al banksjr ban banks ksor or vice Ico versa while some states have highly protective legislation others havel bavei little or none |
