WHALING VESSELS, COASTING TRADE AND FISHERIES, AND CITIZEN OWNERSHIP AND STAN HEARINGS BEFORE THE XBRARY JUN 14 938 DOCUMENT COMMITTEE ON DIV. MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS THIRD SESSION DIV. ON H. R. 8595, H. R. 8778, and H. R. 8906 886! FI FEBRUARY 23 AND 24, 1938 58715 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1938 CONTENTS Anderson, Herbert J., manager, California Sardine Products Institute.......... Bacon, Charles V., private consulting chemical engineer_ - Baldwin, Arthur J., attorney-at-law, New York City. Bennett, Eugene D., counsel, California Sardine Products Institute.. 41, 220, 246 Brenckman, Fred, Washington representative of the National Grange_-_- Carver, Clifford N., vice president, American Whaling Co.... Hayes, Thomas H., Consolidated Fisheries, Lewes, Del.. 159, 230 Isbrandtsen, Hans J., president, Western Operating Co- 121, 243 217 Kane, Donald, attorney, National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation. 108 12 Lord, George de Forest, attorney, Western Operating Co- 164, 217 Raffel, William A., Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department_ 190 Schupp, William, president, American Pacific Whaling Co-- 253 Snow, Hon. William S., president, American Fisheries Association... 29, 118, 230 Sweet, Capt. Henry E., Senior Navigation Officer, Bureau of Marine Inspec- WHALING VESSELS, COASTING TRADE AND FISHERIES, AND CITIZEN OWNERSHIP AND OPERATION REQUIREMENTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1938 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Schuyler O. Bland (chairman) presiding. [H. R. 8595, 75th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To limit the licensing of vessels engaged in catching, killing, or processing whales, or in catching killing, or processing of other aquatic products Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That no license shall be granted by the Secretary of Commerce or by any other officer of the United States to any person, association, partnership, or corporation for the purpose of operating any vessel or other watercraft to be engaged in taking or killing of whales or as a floating reduction ship or for any other work connected with the taking or catching or processing of aquatic products of any kind unless the said vessel or other craft is documented as a vessel of the United States and no vessel unless so documented shall engage in whaling, in catching or killing whales, or in reducing and rendering whales into whale oil or in taking, catching, or processing aquatic products of any kind, nor shall such oil or other products be imported or introduced into the commerce of the United States by any vessel other than a vessel documented under the laws of the United States. If any ship, factory, or other craft required under the laws of the United States to be possessed of a license for the purpose of taking or killing of whales or for operations as a floating reduction ship or for other operation in connection with the taking, catching, or processing of aquatic products of any kind shall be used for any of said services without a license as required by law, the master and the owner and the charterer, if any, of such vessel or other watercraft, as the case may be, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding $5,000 for each day said vessel or other watercraft was so operated. The Secretary of Commerce may refuse to grant a license under this Act in respect to any vessel or other watercraft to any person or corporation, association or partnership otherwise entitled to receive it who has been convicted of an offense under this Act. Any whale oil or other aquatic products transported from a vessel documented under the laws of the United States to any port or place in the United States or Territory under its jurisdiction in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be seized and forfeited to the United States. [H. R. 8778, 75th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To amend section 4311 of the Revised Statutes of the United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4311 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4311. Vessels of twenty net tons and upward, enrolled in pursuance of this title (R. S. 4311-4390; U. Š. C., title 46, secs. 251-356) and having a license in force, or vessels of less than twenty tons but not less than five net tons, which, although not enrolled, have a license in force, as required by this title, and no 1 |