HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 731

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. One shall be
the executive officer of the administrative agency of such State
charged with the conservation of the fisheries resources to
which this compact pertains or, if there be more than one
officer or agency, the official of that State named by the Gov-
ernor thereof. The second shall be a member of the Legis-
lature of such State designated by the Commission or Com-
mittee on Interstate Cooperation of such State, or if there be
none, by the Governor thereof. The third shall be a citizen
who shall have a knowledge of and interest in the marine
fisheries problem to be appointed by the Governor. This Com-
mission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties
set forth herein.

ARTICLE IV

The duty of the said Commission shall be to make inquiry
and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, cir-
cumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing
about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion
and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and
anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard. The Commission shall
have power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of
the police powers of the several States within their respective
jurisdictions to promote the preservation of those fisheries and
their protection against overfishing, waste, depletion or any
abuse whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the
fisheries resources of the aforementioned States.

To that end the Commission shall draft and, after consulta-
tion with the Advisory Committee, recommend to the Gover-
nors and legislatures of the various signatory States legisla-
tion dealing with the conservation of the marine and anadrom-
ous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. The Commission shall,
more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the leg-
islature in any signatory State, present to the Governor of the
State its. recommendations relating to enactments to be made
by the legislature of that State in furthering the intents and
purposes of this compact.

The Commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent
administrative agencies in the States parties hereto with re-
gard to problems connected with the fisheries and recommend
the adoption of such regulations as it deems advisable.

The Commission shall have power to recommend to the
States party hereto the stocking of the waters of such States
with fish and fish eggs or joint stocking by some or all of the
States party hereto and when two or more of the States shall
jointly stock waters the Commission shall act as the coordinat-
ing agency for such stocking.