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has grown around the excellent research and experimental facilities of 

 Boston, industry should grow in the areas around sea grant colleges 

 wherever they are established. 



Leaders within our Commonwealth have already started devising 

 plans to expand research and education in the marine sciences for the 

 benefit of the public. The various INIassachusetts universities and 

 institutes involved in aquatic culture have formed the Massachusetts 

 Association for Marine Sciences, where representatives meet regularly 

 to exchange ideas and plan cooperative research. A subcommittee on 

 oceanography has been created in the Governor's science advisory 

 committee and a New England chapter of the Marine Teclinology 

 Society has been formed. These efforts to marshal the combined re- 

 sources of our research and education community reflect the great in- 

 terest in the ocean within our State, and testify to Massachusetts' 

 capacity to make a positive contribution to the success of these 

 programs. 



Mr. Chairman, I look forward to these hearings as an opportunity 

 to hear from individuals in this field who will be working and bene- 

 fiting from the operation of this program, wlio can comment on ways 

 to make this program better serve the public interest. 



In particular, I look forward to comments on both the proposed 

 method and amounts of Federal funding and on the designation of 

 the National Science Foundation to administer the program. The 

 approach taken on these questions in the present version of the bill 

 seems to be eminently sensible, but I think we should keep our minds 

 open to alternative possibilities. 



Finally, I hope to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of 

 restricting eligibility of Federal assistance to institutions having ac- 

 cess to large bodies of water. Given the limited resources available 

 to support this national program, it may well be desirable to focus 

 maximum support on these institutions which, on their face, are in the 

 best position to make a major contribution to our goal — the conquest 

 of the sea. 



Senator Pell. I thank my friend and colleague of the neighboring 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts for his statement. He brings a 

 great deal of knowledge and experience of the sea and strength to the 

 subcommittee, and like him, I have no preconceived ideas as to Vvdiat 

 agency could best administer this program. I look forward to learn- 

 ing more from the highly qualified witnesses who will be coming up 

 here in the next few days and they were with us yesterday already. 



On behalf of the minority — I thank my colleague very, very much 

 indeed for his constructive testimony. 



We will now hear from Senator Inouye, our colleague from Hawaii. 



STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE, A U.S. SENATOR EEOM 

 THE STATE OE HAWAII 



Senator Ixouye. INIr. Chairman, I wish to speak on behalf of S. 2439 

 which would authorize the establishment and operation of a sea grant 

 colleges program. 



This program is of particular interest to the people of Hawaii, be- 

 cause, located in the middle of the Pacific, we see in it a tool for more 

 effectively exploiting tlie vast potentialities of the ocean frontier that 



