§ 13-0371. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact.\n 1. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact as first enacted by\nchapter 500 of the laws of 1941, and as reenacted by chapter 474 of the\nlaws of 1961, is hereby continued. The compact is as follows:\n ATLANTIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT\n The contracting states solemnly agree:\n Article I\n The purpose of this compact is to promote the better utilization of\nthe fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard by\nthe development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of\nsuch fisheries by the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries\nfrom any cause. It is not the purpose of this compact to authorize the\nstates joining herein to limit the production of fish or fish products\nfor the purpose of establishing or fixing the price thereof, or creating\nand perpetuating monopoly.\n Article II\n This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those states\nexecuting it whenever any two or more of the states of Maine, New\nHampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New\nJersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,\nGeorgia and Florida have executed it in the form that is in accordance\nwith the laws of the executing state and the Congress has given its\nconsent. Any state contiguous with any of the aforementioned states and\nriparian upon waters frequented by anadromous fish, flowing into waters\nunder the jurisdiction of any of the aforementioned states, may become a\nparty hereto as hereinafter provided.\n Article III\n Each state joining herein shall appoint three representatives to a\ncommission hereby constituted and designated as the Atlantic states\nmarine fisheries commission. One shall be the executive officer of the\nadministrative agency of such state charged with the conservation of the\nfisheries resources to which this compact pertains or, if there be more\nthan one officer or agency, the official of that state named by the\ngovernor thereof. The second shall be a member of the legislature of\nsuch state designated by the commission or committee on interstate\ncooperation of such state, or if there be none, or if said commission on\ninterstate cooperation cannot constitutionally designate the said\nmember, such legislator shall be designated by the governor thereof;\nprovided that if it is constitutionally impossible to appoint a\nlegislator as a commissioner from such state, the second member shall be\nappointed by the governor of said state in his discretion. The third\nshall be a citizen who shall have a knowledge of and interest in the\nmarine fisheries problem to be appointed by the governor. This\ncommission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties set\nforth herein.\n Article IV\n The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain\nfrom time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions\nas may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the\nprevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine,\nshell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission shall\nhave power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police\npowers of the several states within their respective jurisdictions to\npromote the preservation of those fisheries and their protection against\noverfishing, waste, depletion or any abuse whatsoever and to assure a\ncontinuing yield from the fisheries resources of the aforementioned\nstates.\n To that end the commission shall draft and, after consultation with\nthe advisory committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the\ngovernors and legislatures of the various signatory states, legislation\ndealing with the conservation of the marine, shell and anadromous\nfisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission
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