Funds Sought From Fishery Customs
To Go To States For Rehabilitation
“Designed to vitalize work on the
rehabilitation and development of
the nation’s fisheries resources by
providing that the work be per
formed by the states involved” was
the summary description which
Sen. Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska)
gave of his bill, S. 1230, when he
testified on it last week before
the Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries of the Senate
Commerce Committee. Sen. E. L.
(Bob) Bartlett (D-Alaska), a mem
ber of the subcommittee, presided
at the hearing.
Sen. Gruening’s bill would set
aside a sum equal to 30 per cent
of the customs receipts on fisher
ies products imports to be placed
in a special fund for allocation to
the states on a proportional basis
for use in fishery research and re
habilitation. The formula under
which funds would be apportioned
to the states would be based upon
the value of raw fish landed and
manufactured and processed fish
ery merchandise manufactured
within each state, averaged over
the preceding three years for
which figures are available.
Under established law, 30 per
cent of all customs receipts are
turned over to the Secretary of
Agriculture for use in encourag
ing consumption of agriculture
commodities. In 1954, the Salton
stalDKennedy act amended this
law to set aside an amount equiv
alent to 30 per cent of the customs
receipts on fishery products, to be
turned over to the Secretary of the
Interior for use in promoting the
“free flow of domestically pro
duced fishery products in com
merce.”
The measure now proposed by
Sen. Gruening would not replace
or reduce the Saltonstall-Kennedy
program, the senator pointed out,
but would work in conjunction with
it, alloting monies to the states for
use rather than being expended by
the Fish and Wildlife Service of
the Department of the Interior.
The Gruening proposal, similar
to a bill introduced in the House
by Rep. Rivers, would make avail
able over $5 million annually to
fisheries states from custom duties
on fishery products. Under an ap
portionment formula, Alaska would
receive in direct grants almost ten
percent of this amount each year,
or an estimated payment exceed
ing $400,000.
The Interior Department has sug
gested a number of amendments
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to the fisheries bill introduced by
Sen. Gruening.
Donald L. McKernan, Director of
the Bureau of Commercial Fisher
ies, Fish and Wildlife Service,
stated in his testimony before the
committee, that there exists an
“immediate need” for reinforcing
efforts of coastal and lake states
to conserve and restore depleted
fisheries. But his department did
not favor the Gruening bill as such.
Amendments proposed included
one that would require matching
payments on a 50-50 basis for fed
eral grants. In addition, the Depart
ment recommended that one-third
of all the funds made available
should be earmarked for distribu
tion by the Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries for grants to universities
and non-profit organizations for
studies and training professional
marine biologists, with two-thirds
to go to the states on a matching
basis.
The Bureau of the Budget
“would not favor the enactment
of this bill because the amount of
customs receipts on fishery pro
ducts bears no logical relation
ships to fishery research needs.”
It suggested that if there is a need
for a grant program to the states
for fishery research it should be
done through annual appropria
tions.
Sen. Frank Peratrovich of Kla
wock, president of Alaska’s Senate,
and Walter Kirkness of Juneau,
State Director of Alaska’s Division
of Commercial Fisheries, testified
in behalf of Sen. Gruening’s bill.
Telegrams and letters supporting
the bill were received from many
Alaskans. Among them were sup
port from Eric Bulmer of Ouzin
kie, Stanley G. Tarrant of P. A. F.,
and Dr. Bob Johnson for the Ko
diak Chamber of Commerce.
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