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Mr. DiNGELL. Would you want to elucidate on that ? 



Mr. Chace. Yes. I have thought about the possibility of machine 

 carding much of our data and I do not think it would be of any value 

 to us. At present we use typed reference cards in two files, syste- 

 matic and geographic. For our needs, that is adequate. To have to 

 feed cards into a machine every time we wanted our information 

 would slow up our activities. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. A clearinghouse for marine biological data would be 

 highly desirable, w^ould it not ? 



Mr. Ciiace. I think it would be for the other disciplines, yes. 



Mr. Miller. For the other disciplines. The Smithsonian might 

 gain something from it, though. Any time that you have any gi-eat 

 amount of information available, you can always gain. 



Mr. Ciiace. xVny cooperation is useful, yes. 



Mr. Miller. I have no further questions. 



Are there any further questions? 



Thank you very much, Doctor. We appreciate your coming. 



Mr. Chace. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Dr. W. M. Chapman of the American Tuna Boat Asso- 

 ciation. 



We always welcome you, sir. 



STATEMENT OF DR. W. M. CHAPMAN, THE RESOURCES COMMITTEE 



Mr. Chapmax. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. I know that Mr. Pelly and I were very happy to see 

 you go to Geneva. 



Mr. CiiAPMAX. Thank you. We were very happy to see you there, 

 also, to give us a little added suport that we needed at the time. 



Mr. ]\IiLLER. I do not know that it added quite enough because we 

 were not too successful . 



Mr. Chapman. We are not through with that problem just yet. We 

 will have it before us for the next several years. 



Mr. Miller. I think that you are right, and I think that the fact 

 that ^Members of Congress did take time enough to go over there has 

 taught us that this is something that we just cannot take for granted 

 and Congress has to be much more conceriied about it. 



In that respect, I think our visits over there were very worthwhile. 



Mr. Chapman. That is correct. As I told you Members of Con- 

 gress who did show up at the Law of the Sea Conference in Geneva — 

 we, in the fishing industry, in particular, were most grateful for you 

 taking off that period of time in the midst of your busy duties to do so, 

 because this matter of the jurisdiction which the coastal States have 

 over the fisheries in tlie adjacent high seas, tied in as it is with the ad- 

 jacent territorial sea and therefore with the great military as well as 

 mercantile interests which you have as your particular responsibility 

 here in this committee, is going to make it necessary for all of us to pay 

 much more attention to this subject in the years immediately before 

 us. 



Mr. Pelly. ^fr. Chairman. 



I think at this point I would just like to comment that the com- 

 munity of interest that all nations have in conservation certainly must 

 sometime, tlirough basic research, bring us together completely so that 



