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This occurs in many places around the coast. We think we need a 

 system for collectino- statistics like this to supplement the commercial 

 catch statistics which are now made available by the Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries to give us, the public, the State, agencies that are 

 responsible for the management of these resources, a total picture of 

 x\\mt the catch is and M-hat the drain is on some of the important spe- 

 cies that exist in salt water. 



Mr, Paul mentioned another activity, which is really a pilot study 

 now, but which we hope will grow into one of our more important en- 

 deavors, and that is the estuarine study. Presently we are occupied 

 with an estuary right near our new laboratory at Sandy Hook on the 

 Shrewsbury River. We are trying to get a picture of the abundance, 

 distribution, migration of young fishes, time of their movements in 

 and out of the estaury, and to develop techniques for doing this sort 

 of thing on a periodic and synoptic basis along t lie coasts. 



We do not pretend we are going to be doing this all by ourselves. 

 We hope to coordinate this activity with the Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, with the university laboratories, and with State agencies. 

 There is more than all of us can do together. There is no problem of 

 duplication of effort at all. 



Mr. Paul mentioned the program for recruiting marine biologists 

 through sponsoring and financing their graduate studies. This, too, 

 is a very small program at the present but we are confident that it is an 

 important activity for us to become engaged in and we hope it will 

 grow. 



A final activity ties in with something Dr. Cox brought out before. 

 That is this matter of scientific communication. We feel that the 

 amount of this information is threatening to inundate all of us, and 

 we feel it is a Federal responsibility to attempt to do something about 

 the problems of scientific communication. 



What we are doing is to take the important marine game fish species 

 like bluefish, dolphin fish, striped bass, croakers, marlins, many 

 . others 



Mr. DiNGELL. Channel bass ? 



Mr. SwARTZ. Channel bass, and to assign them among the staff 

 at our laboratory, have these people compile all the information that 

 is available, both published and unpublished, and to put this in- 

 formation in a form where it can be used. In other words, this is 

 the difference between data and information that Dr. Cox brought 

 out. We hope that once the back data are assembled and collated, 

 that we will be able to keep up to date for each species. This is impor- 

 tant to us for directing our own research, it is going to be important to 

 university people and to State people who are engaged in research and 

 who are administering these resources. 



I think there is one more thing you might be interested in. We re- 

 cently have taken steps to secure a laboratory site on the west coast. 

 This is at Tiburon, Calif., on San Francisco Bay. The Navy is pres- 

 ently engaged in drawing up a license to permit us to use some of the 

 certain buildings at this base, which is a deactivated submarine net 

 base, I believe. 



We have one man stationed on the west coast now and hope when 

 funding permits to build up a staff there and undertake a program 

 . similar to what we are doing at Sandy Hook. 



