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We will no longer be able to tolerate epidemics like the blooming of a red tide 

 of dynaflagellates that make widespread fish kills and are concentrated by mol- 

 lusks so that these poison people. 



Law is an utterly important adjunct to any widespread exploitation of the 

 sea. We need a clarification of the law of the sea and a way of, on the one hand, 

 being able to grant rights so that a group investing capital in vast projects may 

 be assured of some stability toward a reasonable return and, on the other hand, 

 better legal controls to prevent overfishing. Economics, too, must play a major 

 role. The reason that nobody pays attention to preserving the inventory of 

 whales in the sea and that nobody confines himself to a catch that is calculated 

 to build up the stock and take the renewable amount as harvest, is an economic 

 one. The whales in the sea are not on anyone's books as an economic asset. 

 Public administration, with due regard to national and international politics, 

 must find a way out of the dilemma that is posed when nobody owns what's in 

 the sea, and when nobody feels responsible for its controlled exploitation. 



The marine engineer who emerges from our sea-grant institutions will be 

 as different from the old-fashioned marine engineer as the satellite engineer is 

 from the one who operates a heating plant. The aquaculturist will be different 

 from the conventional fisherman. Oceanic engineering and aquaculture, the con- 

 trol of the sea for man's purposes, will take all our imagination and inventive- 

 ness as a magnificent challenge. 



The oceans will offer us military, recreational, economic, artistic, and 

 intellectual outlets of unlimited scope. Thus they'll offer us more space than 

 space itself in which to remain human. The sea- -beautiful and dangerous, ele- 

 gant and strong, bountiful and whimsical- -not only challenges us but offers to 

 every "man in the street" the exciting participation of being a "man in the 

 sea." Like a military operation where a war is not won until the area is occu- 

 pied, we will master the sea only when we occupy it. 



But to do this we must have sea-grant universities and colleges that focus 

 with commitment on the sea- -that seek to impinge all our intellectual disci- 

 plines on the mastery, exploitation, and preservation of the sea. Just as the 

 scholars in the land-grant college developed a passion for the land and led not 

 only, in ways to benefit by it, but also in the ways to preserve it --we must seek 

 through a welding together of science, art, literature, engineering, medicine, 

 law, public administration, and politics to develop a public which will not only 

 homestead our new spaces in the sea but colonize and civilize them through an 

 integrated interdisciplinary education in the sea-grant universities. 



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