AID would utilize about $1 couraged to -tap this resource. they could .million worth of FPC. domestically prospeed their economic and other.progress. duced. In .its ioverseas programs. :under Reasonable estimates place the annual this -amendment. The establishment of an American FPC industry will benefit not only the developing nations. but the American economy as well. Further. it could provide an inexpensive animal protein supplement for Americans on povertylevel incomes. It could eliminate protein deficiency. among migrant workers. among subsistence farmers. and among schoolchildren. The growth of a large American FPC industry would also help to reverse the decline of the American fisheries. Many species of fish now ignored could become valuabl6 assets. and parts of fish now discarded could be made palatable.