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of the food required for tlie world. Let me put it bluntly. Using 

 figures from the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Con- 

 servation and Utilization of Resources this past summer (1949), and 

 taking into account the present rate of increase of the human popu- 

 lation, if we should double the world's landings of fisheries' products 

 in the present decade — almost beyond the realm of possibility — the 

 ocean would still contribute less than 3 percent to the supply of protein 

 required for the world in 1960. 



