As part of the national Sea Grant extension advisory service, agents from Oregon 

 State University (left) talk with an albacore tuna fisherman as his catch is unloaded 

 in Newport, Oregon. 



the New York Bight, fisheries resources off Maine, and a variety of studies 

 ofT Florida. 



Major regional and international research projects continued to play a 

 significant role in the Federal marine sciences effort. During 1971, pilot 

 work began in an Arctic ice dynamics experiment, planning continued for 

 several international investigations of the tropical ocean and atmosphere, an 

 intensive study of Lake Ontario moved into its field phase, and a research 

 investigation of the living resources of the Canary Current was being readied 

 for the eastern central Atlantic. Continuing cooperative investigations in- 

 cluded explorations of the Caribbean, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and North 



