OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1959 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee on Oceanography 

 OF THE Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Boston^ Mass. 



The subcommittee met, at 11 :25 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 

 406, State House, Boston, Mass., Hon. George P. Miller (chairman of 

 the subcommittee) presiding. 



Present: Representatives Miller (chairaian), Oliver, and Flynn. 



Also present: John M. Drewry, Esq., chief comisel, Congressman 

 Hastings Keith, Ninth Congressional District, Massachusetts, and Wil- 

 liam J, Donahue, national representative, American Federation of 

 Government Employees (AFL-CIO). 



Chairman Miller. The meeting will please come to order. 



This is a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Commit- 

 tee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, which has been especially 

 charged with the study of oceanography. A part of that study em- 

 braces the work pertaining to biology at sea and the work of the 

 fishing industry. 



We have had rather extensive hearings on many phases of this work 

 in Washington. The committee was appointed as the result of a 

 comprehensive study made by a committee of the National Academy 

 of Sciences, headed by Dr. Harrison Brown, of the California Insti- 

 tute of Technology, an outstanding authority in his held. Incidental 

 to this work is the jurisdiction which we exercise over the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service authorities to reactivate the research vessel Alhatross 

 III. 



The report of the committee was transmitted to the Congress. The 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives referred it to the Merchant 

 Marine and Fisheries Committee, where it was in turn given to this 

 special subcommittee. 



Mr. John McCormack, majority leader of the House of Represen- 

 tatives is extremely interested in the subject as is Mr. Keith, sitting 

 on my far left," who represents the Ninth Congressional District of 

 Massachusetts and is very much concerned, not only with this particu- 

 lar phase of it, but as an old naval man is very much interested in the 

 subject of oceanography. 



On my right is Mr. Oliver, from your great sister State of Maine. 

 This is Mr. James C. Oliver. 



Further over on my right is Mr. Flynn, Gerald T. Flynn, who comes 

 from the middle section of the country, the north central section of 

 the country, the great State of Michigan. 



Congressman Flynn, I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, that is the State 

 of Wisconsin. 



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