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16 U.S.C. § 744 — Investigations; fish propagation; investigations of damages by predacious fishes; executive assistance
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The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as appropriate, shall prosecute investigations and inquiries on the subject, with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in the number of the food fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United States has taken place; and, if so, to what causes the same is due; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory, or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises; and shall report upon the same to Congress. He is authorized and directed to conduct investigations and experiments for the purpose of ameliorating the damage wrought to the fisheries by dogfish and other predacious fishes and aquatic animals. Said investigations and experiments shall be such as to develop the best and cheapest means of taking such fishes and aquatic animals, of utilizing them for economic purposes, especially for food, and to encourage the establishment of fisheries and markets for them.
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The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as appropriate, shall prosecute investigations and inquiries on the subject, with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in the number of the food fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United States has taken place; and, if so, to what causes the same is due; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory, or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises; and shall report upon the same to Congress. He is authorized and directed to conduct investigations and experiments for the purpose of ameliorating the damage wrought to the fisheries by dogfish and other predacious fishes and aquatic animals. Said investigations and experiments shall be such as to develop the best and cheapest means of taking such fishes and aquatic animals, of utilizing them for economic purposes, especially for food, and to encourage the establishment of fisheries and markets for them.
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The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as appropriate, may take or cause to be taken at all times, in the waters of the seacoast of the United States, where the tide ebbs and flows, and also in the waters of the lakes, such fish or specimens thereof as may in his judgment, from time to time, be needful or proper for the conduct of his duties, any law, custom, or usage of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 744
123, was part of a paragraph entitled: ‘‘Propagation of
Food Fishes’’ in the Sundry Civil Expenses Appropria-
tion Act, 1886. It authorized the Secretary of the Treas-
ury to detail Coast Guard personnel to the Fish and
Wildlife Services for duty. See section 743a of this title.
§ 743a. Detail of personnel and loan of equipment
to Director of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife
(a) ‘‘Agency’’ defined
As used in this section, the term ‘‘agency’’
means the department in which the Coast Guard
is operating, the Department of the Army, the
Department of the Navy, the Department of the
Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission, and
the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion.
(b) Personnel and equipment available
The chief executive officer of each agency may
from time to time—
(i) detail from the agency for duty under the
Director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife, Department of the Interior, such
commissioned and enlisted personnel and ci-
vilian employees as may be spared for such
duty; and
(ii) consonant with the operational needs of
the agency, loan equipment of the agency to
the Director.
(c) Reports to Congress
The Director of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service shall make a report to Congress
at the end of any fiscal year that the provisions
of this section are utilized, which describes the
use of the provisions of this section, and the ad-
ditional cost, if any, to the Federal Government
resulting therefrom. Such report shall be re-
ferred in the Senate to the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation and in the
House of Representatives to the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
(Mar. 3, 1885, ch. 360, § 1(2), as added Pub. L.
93–280, § 1(3), May 10,
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