and technology. Thus, the seabed assessment work, as it is now con- 

 ceived, can a])]Droach its tasks of exploration and basic research in a less 

 urgent manner than that called lor in environmental quality and environ- 

 mental forecasting. 



Living resources have not been studied as intensively as some of the 

 other areas taken up by IDOE. Initially there was a desire not to overlap 

 fisheries research interests, but open ocean biology is not covered by any 

 agency, and this is an area we cannot continue to neglect if we are to 

 gain an understanding of the complex interrelationships involved in ocean 

 productivity. 



There is one additional area in which we feel more emphasis is 

 needed, and that • concerns the new technology developed in the course 

 of IDOE projects. It is important that information about new techniques 

 and instruments be made openly available to others. This presents a 

 problem because of the dearth of suitable journals for publishing such 

 details, but we urge th^ IDOE Office to make an effort to see that the 

 techniques and technology that have been developed are duly publicized. 

 This is but one of a wide range of problems concerning ocean technology, 

 and it may be that the Institute for Engineering Research in the Oceans 

 which NACOA has recommended previously ^ would be a suitable vehicle 

 toward solution. 



1 "Engineering: in the Ocean,"" a report for the Secretary of Commerce by the 

 National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, November 15, 1974. 



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