1254                             JOINT RESOLUTIONS

for Girls, Boys' Village of Maryland and Montrose School for Girls in
order to ascertain the problems and difficulties which need correction
at these four training schools and to recommend to the General As-
sembly the enactment of such remedial legislation as may be necessary
to correct any unsatisfactory conditions.

No. 16
(House Joint Resolution 11)

House Joint Resolution calling for study and report by the Tide-
water Fisheries Commission concerning recommendations for con-
servation and development of the Maryland fishing industry and
for the creation of a Special Commission to assist the Tidewater
Fisheries Commission in such a study.

WHEREAS, the great Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are among
the most valuable natural resources of the State of Maryland and have
historically provided necessary sources of food together with oppor-
tunities for employment, pleasure, relaxation and revenue for the
people of the State of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Maryland has been asked on
numerous occasions to enact special legislation designed to control,
improve or restrict the uses of the Bay and its tributaries by the
various segments of the fishing industries; and

WHEREAS, in order to more properly analyze the various legislative
proposals made to the General Assembly, the General Assembly needs
to have more scientific and practical knowledge of the facts concern-
ing the supply of fish, the habits of fish and the food sources and
requirements necessary to insure an abundant supply of fish in our
waters, together with information concerning what practices of the
several political subdivisions Federal, State and Local, the practices
of landowners in the watershed areas and the practices of fishermen
(commercial, sport or otherwise) that may be beneficial or detri-
mental to the insurance for the future generations of Marylanders
of an adequate and continuing supply of fish; now therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Tide-
water Fisheries Commission of the State of Maryland be empowered,
authorized and directed to make a thorough study of the fishing in-
dustry of the State of Maryland in all of its aspects, giving particular
consideration to the basic reasons for the decline or rise if any of
the fish population in all categories in the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries.

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.