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and the present plan of the Ocean Survey Advisory Panel follows quite 

 closely the basic objectives of chapter 9 of the NASCO report. 



These surveys are obviously necessary. The present NASCO 

 concurred in the necessity for such surveys. The Ocean Survey 

 concurs in this, and the Soviet Union also concurs in this. I have 

 here, Mr. Chairman, the Russian plan for oceanwide surveys, ocean- 

 wide systematic investigations, which again, I will leave. 



The printed material there is a translation of an information paper 

 submitted at the Copenhagen meetings in July of 1960. I also have 

 a large Russian chart, showing their plan for oceanwide surveys, which 

 I will also leave for the scrutiny of the committee, but the Russian 

 oceanograpluTs and the U.S. oceanographers all have the same end 

 in mind, learning; about the world ocean. 



The Survey Panel, Mr. Chairman, also helped in the preparation 

 of position papers for the U.S. delegation to the first meeting of the 

 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Paris last fall. The 

 Panel prepared the background material and wrote the U.S. proposal 

 for oceanwide systematic investigation. I will leave a copy of this 

 background material, and of the proposal for your committee. 



Currently, an ad hoc working group of the Survey's Panel headed 

 up by Mr. Vernon Brock of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries is 

 developing the detailed plans for the first national multiship coopera- 

 tive investigation of a portion of the world ocean to be carried out by 

 various Government agencies and private institutions. 



This is known as the tropical Atlantic investigation. The plan 

 as originally put forward, had as its purpose: 



To provide environmental data essential for pelagic fisheries research and to 

 contribute substantially to the understanding of the oceanography of the eastern 

 tropical Atlantic. 



The program was initiated to coincide with inshore trawler surveys 

 being supported through the former ICA, and would provide offshore 

 data on a singularly interesting portion of the Atlantic. Already the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Navy have cooperated on 

 this program by having BCF biologists aboard Navy vessels in the 

 general area collecting valuable data on the physical and biological 

 oceanography. 



This program worked very well, and the Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries has just completed a set of instructions so that the Navy 

 ships can continue this work without having to have biologists 

 aboard. 



Mr. Bauer. Do you have a set of those instructions? 



Dr. Stewart. I do not, sir. 



Air. Bauer. Would you supply them? 



(The following was furnished for insertion.) 



Department op the Interior, 



Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 Bureau op Commercial Fisheries, 



Washington, D.C., March 18, 1962. 

 Hon. John D. Dingell, 



Chairman, Subcommittee on Oceanography, House Committee on Merchant Marine 

 and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 

 Dear Mr. Dingell: During the course of testimony before your subcommittee 

 by Dr. Harris Stewart, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, on March 1, 1962, 

 interest was shown in the cooperation between our Bureau and the Navy. 



The particular context of the interest, as we understand it, was in what we 

 have called the ships of opportunity program, as encouraged by the Interagency 



