First. despite unused fisheries resources in our own waters. we do not catch the fish we eat. expending about $600 millon annually abroad for the importation of fisheries products. This represents a substantial part of our dollar drain. Because our resources are unused. an increasing volume of Asiatic and European fishermen are attracted by our default to use our waters and catch our resources. All too frequently these foreign fishermen utilize exploitive practices in our waters. seriously undermining our resource conservation efforts. All this evades the law of the sea and the Continental Shelf doctrine and causes extreme embarassment to the State Department.
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Foreign fishermen utilize exploitive practices.