Marine Shrimp Farming and Aquaculture Research: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session : Special Hearing

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Page 137 - CSREES provides the focus to advance a global system of research, extension, and higher education in the food and agricultural sciences and related environmental and human sciences to benefit people, communities, and the Nation.
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Page 1 - Authorizing legislation covering all of these subscriptions and contributions has been passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President. The amounts sought are shown in detail in the table at the end of this statement.
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Page 137 - Section (2), as mended (7 USC 4501); and the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977. as amended (7 USC 3101 et seq.). Through these authorities, the US Department of Agriculture participates with State and other sources of funding to encourage and assist the State Institutions In the conduct of agricultural research through the State Agricultural Experiment Stations of the 50 States and the territories; by approved Schools of Forestry; the 1890 Land-Grant Institutions...
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Page 39 - Public agencies should promote the participation and increase the role of the private sector and the free market system in meeting the nation's needs for fish and shellfish for stock enhancement efforts. • The private sector needs to meet the specifications required by the public sector for fish and shellfish to be released into public marine waters so that potentially negative environmental effects are minimized or eliminated. Studies conducted in at least two states (California and Colorado)...

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