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Narragansett Bay, training of commercial fishermen, marine research 

 economists, ocean engineers, and a new post-graduate degree in marine 

 affairs, as well as sponsoring the Law of the Sea Institute. 



On the gulf coast, a typical coastal zone effort is carried out by 

 John Calhoun's groups at Texas A. & M. This is of somewhat similar 

 nature, but addressed largely to the gulf coast environment. 



As an example of close interrelationship with Federal, State, and 

 local governments, and with industry. Dr. Calhoun is currently carry- 

 ing out a series of six conferences dealing with various aspects of the 

 coastal zone protection and enhancement. 



On the west coast, the University of Washington and Oregon State 

 University have complementary programs wherein in each a dozen 

 departments are collaborating on research and development themes 

 aimed at their regional coastal zone environments. 



For instance, Oregon State University has developed a superb 

 extension service affecting critically occupations in their near and 

 relatively distant area, all up and down their coast. 



The University of Washington has not only mobilized one of the 

 strongest academic powerhouses in this country in participation in 

 the sea-grant program, but they have brought along a S5^stem of five 

 satellite community colleges to assist in the training program. 



The reasons leading to sea-grant focus on the coastal zone stem 

 mostlj'- from the deliberations of the Sea-Grant Advisory Committee. 

 When they first sat down with the National Science Foundation, the 

 idea was to determine the specificity of the sea-grant program ; that is, 

 what could this program do that all of the other agencies described by 

 previous speakers either cannot or would not necessarily want to be 

 accomplishing in either the public or private domain. 



Their recommendations were that this program ought to strive to 

 bring many departments in universities together under common coastal 

 zone themes, that it ought to stimulate industry into partnership with 

 these laboratories, and, you know, normally industry becomes identi- 

 fied as a monster in this context, dumping filth into our waterways, 

 but in all fairness, industry must also be considered to be a big con- 

 sumer of the coastal zone products and services, and it is also, needless 

 to say, a major employer of the persons who work near these areas. 



We were also recommended to train the engineers, technicians, law- 

 yers, economists, and the sophisticated ecologists who are to do the 

 things that the other panelists have been calling for. 



W^e are to perform complicated systems studies of the land-sea inter- 

 face, such as one that we are participating in at Long Island in collab- 

 oration with some county governments and private research institutes, 

 to sponsor coastal zone resources studies, and most importantly of all, 

 to stimulate local initiative. 



In short, the sea-grant program already has developed the team of 

 eight senior and five junior sea-grant colleges, so to speak, all except 

 one of which emphasizes work in the coastal zone. This is not a pro- 

 gram which is ready to roll. It has been at cruising speed for over a 

 year already. 



What I am saying is that there is a crucially important role for the 

 university laboratories to play in the coastal zone campaign. Our xero- 

 gram is proving that they play it exceedingly well. 



Dr. Fye. Thank you. Dr. Abel. 



