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[CITE: 16USC758]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
              CHAPTER 9A--PRESERVATION OF FISHERY RESOURCES
 
Sec. 758. Exploration, investigation, development, and 
        maintenance of fishing resources and industry of Pacific Ocean
        
    It is the policy of the United States to provide for the 
exploration, investigation, development, and maintenance of the fishing 
resources and development of the high seas fishing industry of the 
United States and its island possessions in the tropical and subtropical 
Pacific Ocean and intervening seas, for the benefit of the residents of 
the Pacific island possessions and of the people of the United States.

(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, Sec. 1, 61 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 86-624, 
Sec. 11(a), (b), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 412.)


                               Amendments

    1960--Pub. L. 86-624 substituted ``the United States and its island 
possessions'' for ``the Territories and island possessions of the United 
States'', and struck out ``Territory of Hawaii and'' before ``Pacific 
island possessions''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 758b, 758d of this title.
