Legal Impediments To The Use Of Interstate Agreements In Coordinated Fisheries Management Programs: States In The N.M.F.S. Southeast Region

This study is the product of a contract between the Louisiana State University Center for Wetland Resources and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, entered into on May 18, 1983, entitled "Study of Legal and Institutional Feasibility of Uniform or Reciprocal State Regulation of Fisheries." The objectives of the study are (1) to identify and analyze existing impediments to coordinated interstate fisheries management agreements among coastal states in the NMFS Southeast Region, and (2) to identify and analyze alternative methods for developing a system of coordinated fisheries management among those states. The study is limited exclusively to marine fisheries and does not cover fresh water fishery management problems although much contained in the study would be equally applicable to fresh water fisheries. Contract no. 03-3-042-28