Marine Science Affairs 



2. Fisheries: 



— assessment of the fisheries production potential of the Gulf of Mexico, 

 Gulf of Alaska, and equatorial eastern and central Pacific; 



— ecological and related studies leading to improved management of 

 fisheries of the northwestern Atlantic ; 



— assessment and increased development of fishery resources of the 

 Arabian Sea, offshore southern Chile and Argentina, and in the 

 Indonesian Archipelago ; and 



— investigation of the potentially rich euphausiid resources of the Ant- 

 arctic Ocean. 



3. Biological Studies: 



— application of recently developed techniques to studies of food chains 

 in the sea; and 



— development of new techniques for measuring biological factors and 

 for modeling ecosystems using computers for areas such as Georges 

 and Grand Banks, the Gulf of Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern 

 and central equatorial Pacific, the South Pacific gyre, the western 

 Arabian Sea, and the Antarctic Ocean. 



4. Physics and Environmental Forecasting: 



— investigation of 1,000 to 3,000 mile, cold and warm anomalies related 



to "centers of action" in the North Pacific; 

 — studies of large-scale, long-term air-sea interaction and meso-scale 



interaction in subtropical upwelling regions; 

 — systematic ocean coverage of deep temperature, salinity, and oxygen 



measurements; and 

 — geochemical "benchmark" surveys of selected trace substances on 

 meridional traverses in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. 

 The Academies' final report will be released by the Council this year to 

 assist in further development of the Decade concept, both nationally and 

 internationally. This report, together with the Ten- Year Plan for Ocean 

 Exploration which is being developed as described in Chapter XII, wall be 

 used in government-wide Decade planning. Additionally, economic analyses 

 of the benefits to be derived from alternative types of Decade programs will 

 be conducted. Also, representatives of the major non-Federal industrial and 

 scientific interests concerned with ocean exploration will have an opportu- 

 nity to review Decade plans on a continuing basis, thus providing for broad 

 national participation in the development of the program. 



As a first step, those types of on-going programs that will contribute to 

 accelerated exploration activities during the Decade and the most promising 

 areas for new program emphasis during FY 1971 will be identified. 

 Also, efforts will be made to identify long lead-time items such as ships and 

 data processing equipment that might require funding early in the Decade. 

 At the present time the United States supports many Decade-related pro- 

 grams through about 30 percent of the Federal marine science budget. About 



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