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Senator Pell. Just to return for a moment to your specific sugges- 

 tions. Would these suggestions all be accepted with equal force by 

 your group or is there one suggestion that is more favorable than 

 another ? 



Dr. Knauss. I think they should all be accepted with equal force, 

 Senator. The question as to where this bill should be administered, 

 where the administration of this bill should be placed, our committee 

 did not feel at that time that we were in a position to make any recom- 

 mendation as to where the administration of the bill should rest. 

 Wliether it should rest with the National Science Foundation or the 

 Smithsonian Institution we felt that, at least at that time, which was 

 in early February, that we were not in a position to make a recom- 

 mendation on this matter. 



Senator Pell. Speaking to you as the dean of the graduate school 

 of oceanography in this field, where do you apply for funds? What 

 Government agency have you been in close touch with and are they 

 negative in your view ? 



J)r. Knauss. We apply for grants from a wide variety of sources, 

 the Atomic Energ;y" Commission, the National Science Foundation, the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, and the National Institutes of Health. 

 We have had money from all of these places. Usually I get grants on 

 a project basis. It is very difficult to get grants on an individual basis 

 ior a 2- or 3-year period which allow you to speculate on the basis that 

 something might turn up and so forth. This is certainly one of the 

 key points, I believe, of sea grant colleges, this bill, that a fair portion 

 of the funds would lie distributed where needed. 



Senator Pell. This is the same point that President Horn raised 

 in his testimony about the importance of having institutional grants 

 as opposed to individual grants ; is that right ? 



Dr. Knauss. That is right, sir. 



Senator Pell. Now, you mentioned five or six Grovemment agencies. 

 Do you have someone in your faculty who coordinates these requests 

 or does each man formulate language which will most appeal to that 

 agency particularly ? 



Dr. Knauss. We have no one person that does the coordinating. I 

 would say that it is the agency, itself, that is aware of the problem. 



Senator Pell. Another thought here is in connection with fish pro- 

 tein concentrate. As I understand it you, and the Point Judith Fisher- 

 men's Cooperative, have been working together to get one of those 

 plants, one of those stations. 



Dr. Knauss. We are very excited about this. We have talked with 

 them about this and we have made some tentative plans as to what we 

 might do. Yes, we are ready to move on this if we were first to get 

 one of these plants in this area. First the bill has to pass. 



Senator Pell. I would also like to congratulate your university 

 on going ahead with that meeting a few months ago when we dis- 

 cussed this idea of the bill for a fish protein concentrate plant, be- 

 cause, as I have said to Mayor Harrington, I believe the time will 

 come when fish protein concentrate will be considered perfectly suit- 

 able for human consumption and then there will be a great need to 

 develop this food, right ? 



Dr. Knauss. Yes, I agree. It certainly has its advantages. It stores 

 easily and can be mixed easily with other foods. 



