conferring and formulating proposals concerning effective means to
secure intergovernmental harmony and is required by the creating
act to report to the Governor and to the Legislature within fifteen
days after the convening of each regular session and at other times
deemed appropriate (Code 1951, Art. 40, sees. 15-22).

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION

College Park Telephone: Warfield 7-3800

The Southern Regional Council for Education was established by
a compact of fourteen Southern states. Its purpose is to pool the
educational resources of the several Southern states to the end that
regional institutions of a high caliber will be developed in the various
states. Maryland students, unable to secure training in the desired
field, are educated in an institution of one of the participating states
which offers such courses. The administrative work of the Council
in Maryland is carried on by the University of Maryland (Acts 1949,
ch. 282).

Appropriation 1953 1954
General Fund. $71,500 $74,500

ATLANTIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION

Commissioners from the State of Maryland: Arthur H.
Brice, Chairman, Commission of Tidewater Fisheries; Louis
L. Goldstein, Member of the State Senate; Appointed by the
Governor: Harold D. Kennerley, Jr., 1956.
Wayne D. Heydecker, Secretary-Treasurer

22 West First Street, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Telephone: Mount Vernon 8..1414

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is an outgrowth
of the "Eastern Conservation Conferences" begun in 1937. A compact
was drawn up and ratified by seven states, including Maryland, in
1941. This compact which was approved by the United States
Congress and signed by the President in 1942 is the legal basis of the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission which today has a
membership of fifteen Eastern Seaboard States.

Each State is represented by three Commissioners, one of whom
must be the chairman or director of the fisheries management agency,
one a legislator and a member of the Interstate Cooperation Com-
mittee; and the third selected by the Governor for a term of three
years. The Commission acts in an advisory capacity only, aiding in
the development of joint programs dealing with a single species or
a body of water common to two or more states. These may result in
uniform laws or varying but coordinated measures as the circum-
stances require. To accomplish these ends, the Commission usually
meets in committees for the consideration of a particular species of
fish or group of species; or in four regional groups as follows:
(1) the North Atlantic States, (2) the Middle Atlantic States, (3)