8 ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 



We solicit your support for legislation concerning the marine 

 sciences in the Senate (Congress) of the United States, and ask that 

 3"ou do all within your power to insure its passage. 

 Sincerel}^ 3'ours, 



(Signed) Robert J. Weimer, Associate Professor; John 

 D. Haun, Associate Professor; Peter C. Badgley, As- 

 sociate Professor; Warren D. Mateer, Assistant Pro- 

 fessor; Harold Bloom, Instructor; Robert H. Hutch- 

 inson, Associate Professor; John R. Hayes, Profes- 

 sor; Fred A. Moore, Assistant Professor; Harry C. 

 Kent, Instructor; David W". Trexler, Assistant Pro- 

 fessor; Rudy C. Epis, Assistant Professor; Leonard 

 Bryner, Assistant Professor; Donald H. Johnson, 

 Instructor; Laurence Ogden, Assistant Professor; 

 M. A. Klugman, Assistant Professor; L. W. Leroy. 



THE UNFENCED PASTURES OF THE SEA 



Living resources of the sea are equally if not more vital to man's 

 future than the ocean's untapped mineral wealth. 



Swimming in the sea or nestled in its estuaries and shallows are 

 incalculable stores of rich protein food. 



Earth's human population is exploding at a rate faster than the herds 

 and flocks of protein-producing land animals can be increased. 



A world deficit in animal proteins exists now. This deficit totals 

 1.8 million metric tons, according to a special task force of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture which recently completed a world survey of 

 the problem. 



A metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds. The world animal protein deficit, 

 therefore, is 3,968,280,000 pounds. Half of the world's deficit, or 

 900,000 metric tons, the task force reported, is in the non-Communist 

 Far East. Communist Asia has a deficit of 755,000 metric tons. 

 The deficit in Africa was stated as 115,000 metric tons. 



"For the free world the critical area is the Far East," the task 

 force commented. "Also a considerable deficiency appears for certain 

 of the populations of Africa." 



To meet this deficit man is turning more and more to one of the 

 richest sources of protein food — the sea. 



From 1948 to 1958 — the last year for which complete data is avail- 

 able — the world catch of fish and shellfish increased from 19.4 to 33.7 

 million tons, or more than 70 percent. 



What will the world require in the year 2000 when its present 

 population approaching 3 billion has doubled to 6 billion people? 



What -svill the United States require in 1980, when its population 

 has reached 230 million? 



President Kennedy in a letter to Vice President Johnson on March 

 29, 1961, stated: 



Within two decades our own Nation will require over 

 a million more tons of seafood than we now harvest. 



Can the ocean supply these needs? 



Scientists say it can provided there is sample research and explora- 

 tion on the high seas, conducted from adequate and scientifically 

 equipped ships; modernization of commercial fishing vessels and 

 adoption of improved techniques. 



