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Aquaculture, with a few minor exceDtions, appears to be today 

 where agriculture was fifty or more years ago. True farming of 

 the sea is still in its infancy. At the present time almost all 

 of the oysters produced on the west coast of the U.S. have at 

 least one manipulation by man before they are harvested; on the 

 Atlantic seaboard approximately fifty per cent are manipulated 

 at least once before harvest. Other than oysters, there are no 

 known enterprises in marine aquaculture that are expecting a 

 significant profit, '"any ventures are presently underway to 

 develop pilot plants for commercial farming in the future. 



Table IV. 2. 2 lists the range of species that are presently being 

 studied for marine aquaculture. Research is at private, univer- 

 sity, State government, and Federal Government laboratories. 



