Marine Advisory Services 



To support Federal marine programs and to assist in their 

 application for the benefit of the American public, a marine advisory 

 service has been established to serve as a two-way communications 

 link with the public. Field agents of this advisory service — "county 

 agents in hip boots" — will help bring to the Nation an awareness of 

 our ocean heritage and its potential for satisfying many of our 

 economic and social needs. 



International Cooperation 



Problems of the marine environment have a unique global 

 dimension. As we continue ourefforts in the marine areas that I have 

 highlighted, we shall also work to improve the performance of these 

 functions within the international community. We are already 

 making headway, for example, in advancing the International 

 Decade of Ocean Exploration, the International Field Year of the 

 Great Lakes, and the Integrated Global Ocean Station System of the 

 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the World 

 Meteorological Organization. 



We have also established special agreements for cooperative 

 marine activities with a number of nations, including Canada, 

 France, Japan, and the USSR. In addition, we shall take whatever 

 efforts are required to fulfill those commitments made at the 

 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the meetings of 

 the International Whaling Commission, and the significant 

 deliberations of numerous other organizations dedicated to fisheries 

 and the marine environment. We shall also continue to work with 

 developing nations, helping them to realize more fully the benefits 

 available to them from the oceans and generating the climate 

 necessary to assure freedom of research at sea for all nations. 



Finally, we must seek ways to insure that the oceans remain an 

 avenue of peaceful cooperation rather than an arena of tension-filled 

 confrontation. Our efforts in the Law of the Sea deliberations, now 

 beginning, will be devoted to this goal. 



Conclusion 



America is a seagoing nation with great dependence on the oceans 

 that surround it. We can take pride in our past leadership and our 

 accomplishments in marine science and engineering. I am deter- 

 mined that our future Federal marine effort will continue that leader- 

 ship to the benefit of our Nation and all mankind. 



