Marine Science Affairs 



Figure VI-1 — ^U.S. Supply of Fishery Products 



Billion Pounds 

 (Round Weight) 

 1 



4 — 



MPORTS 



DOMESTIC CATCH 



1958 '59 



'60 



'61 



'62 



'63 



Year 



'64 



'65 



'66 



'67 



'68'' 



(II Supply available for domestic consumption and export. 



(2) estimated 



source: department of interior 



petitiveness of U.S. industry. Also, many of our small coastal communities 

 are almost totally dependent on a healthy fishing industry. For example, 

 In Alaska 30 percent of the civilian labor force is engaged in fishing which 

 accounted for 54.5 percent of the processed value of total natural resource 

 production of the State in 1966. 



As world food producers struggle to keep pace with a rapidly expanding 

 population — and statistics indicate that this disparity is actually in- 

 creasing rather than decreasing — accelerated development of food from the 

 sea offers high promise of meeting a part of the growing worldwide need for 

 animal protein — an unmet need of a billion people currently suffering from 

 malnutrition. Indeed, in recent years fish consumption has grown world- 

 wide more rapidly than population. Innovative applications of contemporary 

 science and technology can turn currently underutilized fishing stocks into 

 new food sources for developing areas. The United States is thus motivated 



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