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Dr. Frosch. I only wanted to comment that making the basic 

 data and information available is only the first step. That will not 

 necessarily produce a good prediction for a tuna fisherman. 



One would hope that when the data is available and there's 

 clearly a market for specific forecasts and information, that there 

 will be some entrepreneurial activity, and as has happened in other 

 such information areas, there will be businesses put together to 

 take the information and provide forecasts and details for the mar- 

 ket that will use them. 



But that will only happen when the information is really avail- 

 able and it's clear it's going to go on being available to create such 

 a business. 



Mr. Weldon. Mr. Kennedy? 



Mr. Kennedy. Yes. Mr. Chairman, I just wanted — in Rhode Is- 

 land, we have an ocean technology center which does much of what 

 I think my colleague was interested in doing. 



I'd be happy to get more information about that to any of my 

 other colleagues. 



Mr. Weldon. Thank you, and thank you, Mr. Taylor. 



Our next questioner is the distinguished gentleman from Califor- 

 nia representing Monterey Bay, who I understamd had a leadership 

 role in his state in ocean research management. 



So we're very pleased that Mr. Farr has been here with us. 



Mr. Farr. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I spent 21 years 

 doing coastal zone management issues and I've been looking for- 

 ward to this day my entire life, I think. 



I hope that you'll follow up on creating a task force and I pledge 

 all the energy I have in Congress to make it work. 



I would just like to comment that I think that this issue is more 

 important than space. We need to make the world know that. I 

 think that, also, we need to realize that all access to the ocean 

 comes from the land. And as others have said, we need to elaborate 

 a more vertical integration between federal activities and state and 

 local activities. 



In the State of California, while in the legislature, I authored an 

 act called CORMA — California Ocean Resources Management Act. 

 Governor Wilson has just released this report by the Secretary of 

 Resources on California's ocean resources, pointing out that in Cali- 

 fornia, it's a $17 billion industry, and equal in importance to the 

 state as agriculture. And California is the leading agricultural 

 state in the nation. 



The governance is very interesting because we don't address 

 those very often. But in addition to the multiplicity of land jurisdic- 

 tions, you have complexities in our federal jurisdictions, with the 

 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. We don't even know where the 

 Outer Continental Shelf boundary exactly is and it's not well de- 

 fined. 



The Coastal Zone Management Act, which can go inland as well 

 as out to sea, and how far out hasn't been defined yet. The Magnu- 

 son Fisheries Conservation Management Act. The National Envi- 

 ronmental Policy Act. And certainly that of the EEZ, and the zone 

 territorial sea out to 200 miles. 



