OCEANOGRAPHY 5 



appropriated to the Bureau of Mines and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 Department of the Interior, during the ten-year period beginning with July 1 of 

 the first fiscal year following approval of this Act by the President, the following 

 sums: 



(a) Such sums as may be necessary for construction of new ships for fisheries 

 exploration and research: Provided, hoicei^e?-, That in the construction of these 

 ships, modern fisheries exploration and research vessels of other nations shall 

 be studied with respect to design and performance with a view to increasing 

 the seaworthiness, range, and eflBcieucy of the United States fisheries research 

 fleet. 



(b) Such sums as necessary for operation of new fisheries research and ex- 

 ploration ships: Provided, however. That operation costs for new research ships 

 placed in operation by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries not aggregate in 

 excess of $2,000,000 per annum: Provided further. That in planning operations 

 of the new research and exploration ships of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries, the Secretary of the Interior shall give full consideration to the needs for 

 such operation in the Gulf of Mexico, Bering Sea, other ocean areas of potential 

 commercial importance, and the Great Lakes. 



(c) Such sums as the departments deem adequate for capital expenditures in 

 inaugurating, developing, or expanding new ocean resource studies and stirveys, 

 or constructing or procuring facilities for such studies including, but not limited 

 to, unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic records, mesoscaphs 

 for biological observations, automatic continuous plankton samplers, oceanaria 

 and instrumentation for studies of marine life behavior, laboratories for research 

 into marine survival, and establishment of an instittite for research on diseases 

 of fish, shellfish, and other marine life: Provided, hoirever. That in constructing 

 or procuring facilities for ocean resource studies, and in inaugurating such 

 studies, full consideration be given to the fisheries resources of the Pacific and At- 

 lantic Oceans north of 40 degrees north latitude, between 15 degrees and 40 de- 

 grees north latitude, the Gulf of Mexico. Bering Sea, other ocean areas of poten- 

 tial commercial value, and the Great Lakes, and that such facilities be located 

 where they may provide maximum benefits to fishermen and other citizens resid- 

 ing in the United States. 



('d ) Such sums as are necessary for oiJerations, excluding ship operations, of 

 fisheries resource studies including, but not limited to. those stated above in (c) 

 marine population sampling, biological surveys, ecological mapping, taxonomic 

 development, genetics of marine organisms, pond fish culture and braking water 

 farming, estaurine studies, transportations and nutrient increase research : Pro- 

 vided, hoirever. That expenditures for operations of new resources studies by the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the Department of the Interior not exceed 

 SIO.000.000 per annum. 



(e) The sum of .$6,.'500.000 for continuing stttdies over a ten-year period of 

 titilization of marine products for human consumption, animal feeds, industrial 

 purposes, fertilizers and organic chemicals, and the development of new uses of 

 marine products: Provided, lioircver. That in directing these studies the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior shall give full consideration to their being carried on in ex- 

 isting institutions through the issuance of grants to said institutit)ns. for con- 

 tinuing studies over a ten-year period of the economics and law of commercial 

 fisheries and for the investigation of the mineral deposits on the ocean floor and 

 mineral resources in the sea. 



DEPARTMEXT OF COMMERCE 



Sec. 7. The Secretary of Conmierce is authorized and directed, with such funds 

 as may be appropriated or otherwise made available to him, to undertake a ten- 

 year program of study and research as part of the general program for the de- 

 velopment of the marine sciences in the United States. In furtherance of the 

 purposes of this Act. the Secretary is authorized and directed to carry out the 

 following activities : 



(a) Request and obtain cof>peration from other Government agencies having 

 an interest in the marine sciences and ocean surveys, and cooperate with edu- 

 cational institutions and laboratories devoted to the marine sciences and ocea- 

 nography, and with other public and private organizations and persons who may 

 be of assistance. 



(b) Establish within the Department of Commerce a National Oceanographic 

 Records Center, which records center shall collect from other agencies and de- 

 partments of the Federal Government, agencies of the several States, oceano- 



