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management of fishery resources. To date little progress 

 appears to have been made toward translating plans into 

 action. Strengthening the quality and increasing the 

 amount of basic research in government fishery labora- 

 tories remains a high priority item. 



Although V7e have emphasized our concern with the 

 plight of our country's museums and the small amount of 

 support available for studies on the taxonomy of marine 

 organisms (Committee resolution of February 27, 1960) 

 there is little evidence of improvement in this situation. 

 The federal agency most involved, the U. S. national 

 museum of the Smithsonian Institution, is not represented 

 on the ICO, yet the success of many government programs 

 and surveys v;ill depend upon accurate and prompt identi- 

 fication of the specimens collectad. In this work, the 

 U. S. ITatioral Museum must play a responsible role. 



At present, the national Science Foundation is fund- 

 ing an increasing ar.nount of basic oceanographic and 

 marine biological research in the universities and research 

 institutions. Coiisidering that fiis is the federal agency 

 charged with responsibility to enrourage and support basic 

 research in all branches of science, the increased interest 

 in oceanography during the past t.jo years, and the consid- 

 erable expansion of financial support to this field is 

 most heartening. 



In this review of our report and the activities of 

 agencies we ./ish to emphasize that our estimates for shore 

 facilities for basic research made in 1958, were 

 u nrealistic ally low. (See. Section II-C.) The same applies 

 for our estimates of the funding needs for basic research 

 programs apart from ships and facilities. Ivhile we are 

 correcting the record v;e also wish to state that by listing 

 the navy and the national Science Foundation as joint 

 underwriters for the basic research program we were em- 

 phasizing the natural and dominant role of these two 

 organizations xn basic research. Of course, a_ll federal 

 agencies with marine interests or missions need to support 

 basic studies and maintain close and effective working 

 relationships with the scientific community. 



Finally, v;e wish to reemphasize that our recommenda- 

 tion for a "doubling of basic research activity during the 

 next ten years" v;as (and is) a miniraura recommendation and 

 "that doubling the basic research activity will require 

 more than doubling the total expenditures." 



