Present and future studies will explore possible avenues for 

 expanding the Sea Grant concept to promote technical exchanges 

 with interested foreign nations, exchanges that would benefit both 

 the United States and the other participating countries. AnotherSea 

 Grant goal is to support a series of innovative projects directed 

 toward solving urgent regional and national problems. Such projects 

 could be performed by industry or by members of the Sea Grant 

 network as adjuncts to their regular programs. 



Major efforts, the National Sea Grant Program is considering for 

 support in future years include 



(1) Cooperative programs with industry to develop new techni- 

 ques for aquaculture of Malaysian prawns and American lobsters 

 and to conduct pilot-scale tests in privately owned facilities 



[2] Design of processes and equipment for treating solid waste 

 and liquid effluents of seafood processing at sea and ashore, and for 

 recovering useful products from the wastes 



(3) Development of new low-cost breakwaters for protecting 

 beaches and coastal and offshore structures 



(4) Continued assistance, through Sea Grant institutions, to the 

 development of State coastal zone and estuarine management plans, 

 and in solving such specific local problems as powerplant siting 



(5) Development of the training programs needed to produce 

 engineers and technicians skilled in dealing with energy-related 

 environmental protection problems, including operating offshore 

 energy facilities and cleaning up oil pollution 



Table B-1 lists the Sea Grants. Table B-2 lists the expenditures by 

 topic, and Table B-3 lists them by institution and State. 



Table B-1.— Sea Grants 



Number nf grants 



Type of grant 



Project grants 



Coherent 



Institutional 



TOTAL 



FY 1974 

 (actual) 



FY 1975 

 (estimate) 



25 

 14 

 19 



58 



25 

 10 



21 



56 



94 



