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Bureau of Sport Fisheries and v/lldliie 



v\/hile $158,000 is being budgeted by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries 

 and V/iidlife for research on life histories and ecology of sport fishes, 

 both inshore and offshore environments, this amount is very small in re- 

 lation to the imporLance of recreational marine fishing and the burgeoning 

 problems of mainLaiuing sport fish stocks in the face of increasing sport 

 and commercial fishing pressure. 



v/e urge the Bureau to play a larger part in the national oceanographic 

 program. The programs and objectives outlined in the ICO report are well 

 founded and should make an important contribution. We are particularly 

 interested in the Bureau's plan to sponsor and finance graduate fellowships 

 in fields of taxonomic relationships, life liistories, behavior, etc. 



G eological Survey 



The Geological Survey is carrying out a number of small high quality 

 investigations on marine geology. This organization has a potential for 

 making substantial contributions in the future. Funding to date has been 

 disappointingly small in relation to this potential. 



Geographical limitations of the Survey's activities should be removed 

 so that it cc.n carry out activities beyond the territorial limits of the United 

 States under its own initiative supported by its own funds. 



B ureau of iXTines* 



The Bureau of Mines support of research ana development on marine 

 mineral resources is still well below that recommended by the Committee. 

 Although immed:i--..te economic pressures for exploitation and development 

 of the mineral resources of the ocean are now slight, in the future nations 

 may have to turn to the oceans as a source of mineral resources. We 

 must establish a firm base for our own future use of these resources by 

 exploration, research, and engineering studies of methods of their re- 

 covery. 



See Section II-G, Item 15 



