Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 4.djvu/57

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PUBLIC LAW 101-537 —NOV. 8, 1990 104 STAT. 2373 (D) mitigation measures to restore and enhance fishery resources adversely affected by past Federal (including federally assisted or approved) water resource development projects and other activities; (E) increasing the involvement of the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and other interjurisdictional entities regarding fishery resources protection, restoration, and enhancement; (F) research projects and data gathering initiatives regarding population trends of fish stocks, including population abundance and structure, interspecific competition, survival rates, and behavioral patterns; (G) important fishery resource habitat and other areas that should be protected, restored, or enhanced for the benefit of Great Lakes fishery resources; (H) how private conservation organizations, recreational and commercial fishing interests, the aquaculture industry, and the general public could contribute to the implementation of the fishery resource restoration and enhancement recommendations developed pursuant to this Act; and (I) appropriate contributions that should be made by States and other non-Federal entities to the cost of activities undertaken to implement the recommendations, including a description of— (i) the activities that shall be cost-shared; (ii) the entities or individuals which shall share the costs of those activities; (iii) the proportion of appropriate project and activity costs that shall be borne by non-Federal interests; and (iv) how the entities or individuals who share costs should finance their contribution, (d) PROPOSALS FOR IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS. — The Director shall develop proposals for implementing the recommendations of the study developed under subsection (c)(5). The proposals shall be consistent with the goals of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, as revised in 1987, the 1954 Great Lakes Fisheries Convention, State and tribal fishery management jurisdiction, and the 1980 Joint Strategic Plan for the management of Great Lakes fishery resources. SEC. 1006. GOALS OF UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE PRO- 16 USC 941d. GRAMS RELATED TO GREAT LAKES FISH AND WILDLIFE RE- SOURCES. In administering programs of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service related to the Great Lakes Basin, the Director shall seek to achieve the following goals: (1) Restoring and maintaining self-sustaining fishery resource populations. (2) Minimizing the impacts of contaminants on fishery and wildlife resources. (3) Protecting, maintaining, and, where degraded and destroyed, restoring fish and wildlife habitat, including the enhancement and creation of wetlands that result in a net gain in the amount of those habitats. (4) Stopping illegal activities adversely impacting fishery and wildlife resources.