§78.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be primary research agency; advisory committee

The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior of the Government of the United States shall act as the primary research agency of the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, cooperating with the research agencies in each state for that purpose.  Representatives of the Fish and Wildlife Service shall attend the meetings of the commission.  An advisory committee to be representative of the commercial saltwater fishermen, the saltwater anglers, and such other interests of each state as the commissioners deem advisable may be established by the commissioners from each state for the purpose of advising those commissioners upon such recommendations as it desires to make.  

Acts 1981, No. 837, §2.