In developing aquaculture, primarily of catfish and to some extent of trout. 

 The program seeks to assist in conserving and developing water resources by 

 using the resources for food and recreation. 



The Smithsonian Institution provides essential, fundamental information 

 on the kinds of fishery organisms being sampled, produces monographs and 

 guides to the identity of harvested organisms and those serving as food for 

 commercial species, provides information on the populations and distribu- 

 tion of species which might have commercial importance or which are 

 parasites and predators on useful species, and provides a sorting service for 

 bulk samples of marine species. 



The National Science Foundation furnishes basic scientific research sup- 

 port in biological oceanography and marine biology for investigations related 

 to marine organisms. Through the Sea Grant Program it supports graduate, 

 undergraduate and institutional investigations on aquaculture, fisheries and 

 drugs and extracts from the sea — related in greater detail in chapter VII. 



The Coast Guard participates in enforcement of international fishery 

 arrangements. The Navy makes its fleet thermal structure forecasts, gathered 

 to determine underwater sound propagation, available to BCF for fish 

 location forecasts. Sea-life distribution is aflfected by water temperature, and 

 the Navy thermal profiles, provided at no cost to BCF through a cooperative 

 arrangement, have proved useful to fishermen in locating fish. In addition 

 to meeting national security objectives the Navy's marine biology research 

 program also contributes to information on seafood. 



Food From the Sea in the War on Hunger 



Recognizing that food from the sea offers considerable promise in meet- 

 ing a portion of the world's protein deficiency, the United States embarked 

 in 1967 on a new food-from-the-sea program with the Agency for Inter- 

 national Development (AID) assuming lead agency responsibility. The 

 Marine Sciences Council gave high priority to the program, the initial 

 objectives of which included development of commercial processing for 

 producing fish protein concentrate (FPC) . The program is intended to — 



( 1 ) Determine the potential market for FPC in selected developing 

 countries ; 



(2) Seek to establish a viable commercial FPC system suitable for 

 use in protein-deficient developing countries; and 



(3) Encourage other nations and private interests to establish com- 

 mercial fishing industries in the developing countries. 



During 1969 the Marine Sciences Council acted to insure a long-term basis 

 for the program by supporting AID's initiatives to continue acceptability test- 

 ing and analysis of the feasibility for use of various available FPC production 

 processes in less developed countries, and strengthening the base of university 

 technical support in the United States and abroad. It also encouraged BCF 

 efforts to develop a prototype process for fatty fish, construct an FPC 



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