. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. ''^'r>y,^^>'^>?:>'^"y^yf^- ^mm FEDERAL ACTIONS. Bureau of the Budget ADDITIONAL FISHERY FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED TO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: Additional commercial fisheries re- sponsibilities of the Federal Govern- ment are being taken over by the Depart- ment of the Interior by transfer from the Commerce and Agriculture Departments. This was announced April 9 by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Ross Leffler, following Budget Bureau approval of the transfer of functions inline with provi- sions in the Fishand Wildlife A<;t o
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. ''^'r>y,^^>'^>?:>'^"y^yf^- ^mm FEDERAL ACTIONS. Bureau of the Budget ADDITIONAL FISHERY FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED TO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: Additional commercial fisheries re- sponsibilities of the Federal Govern- ment are being taken over by the Depart- ment of the Interior by transfer from the Commerce and Agriculture Departments. This was announced April 9 by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Ross Leffler, following Budget Bureau approval of the transfer of functions inline with provi- sions in the Fishand Wildlife A<;t of 1956. Congress established a separate Bureau of Commercial Fisheries with- in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Interior Department in the 1956 Act and assigned to the Bureau principal Federal responsibility for commercial fishery matters. Actual transfer of departmental operations will be made gradually as routines are worked out. Two of the new responsibilities of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries relate to mortgage insurance and loans for construction of fishing vessels, ju- risdiction of which resided heretofore in the Maritime Administration. This authority is apart from that already lodged in Interior to administer the fisheries loan program for financing, operating, and maintaining fishing ves- sels. All the functions of the Department of Agriculture pertaining to fish and shellfish now performed under the Agri- cultural Marketing Act of 1946 are also transferred to Interior. Among these is the authority for the development and promulgation of voluntary grade standards for fishery products and for the inspection and certification of such products. In the past the standards for fishery products--such as those for fish sticks and breaded shrimp--were devel- oped by Interior's Bureau of Commer- cial Fisheries but were promulgated by the Department of Agriculture. The distribution and disposal of sur- plus fishery products also is transferred to Interior
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