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associated with the liberal arts, literature, art, and history, which 

 describe man's emerging relationship to the oceans and enhance his 

 appreciation of their potential and value. 

 In an early talk I said that — 



the sea grant college to do its job, will also need its county agents in hip boots, 

 an aquacultural extension service that takes the findings of the college or uni- 

 versity onto the trawlers, drilling rigs, merchant ships, and down to the sub- 

 marines and submotels. 



I am happy to see that at least in one institution — in Senator Pell's 

 home State — there has already been recently established a marine 

 experiment station parallel in its aims to the agricultural experiment 

 stations which help the farmers on the land. 



I also said in this earlier exposition that law is an utterly important 

 adjunct to any widespread exploitation of the sea, and that we need a 

 clarification of the law of the sea as we move toward industrialization 

 of its resources and colonization of its waters. I am pleased to see that 

 already there is being organized an important National Conference on 

 the Law of the Sea, at the University of Rhode Island Jmie 27-July 

 1,1966. 



While these beginnings are gratifying, we need to consolidate them 

 and insure that this kind of interdisciplinary activity continues at an 

 even greater rate and with a long-term commitment. It is with this 

 in mind that I heartily support the National Sea Grant College and 

 Program Act. 



Sea grant colleges could be established in any public or private 

 college or university which is willing to dedicate itself on a continuing 

 basis not only to the science of the sea, but toward using this knowledge 

 to turn the sea increasingly to the benefit of peoj^le. 



However small we start, I hope ultimately there might be many of 

 these colleges and, as to the matching question, Senator, I think the 

 most important matching thing is some way of insuring the commit- 

 ment of the college, the intellectual commitment of the college, and 

 whether this is insured by their dedicating existing buildings, shore- 

 lands or turning their programs in the direction of exploiting the sea, 

 this is a more important thing to have than matching the funds given 

 to them with other funds. 



I certainly think that all the sea grant colleges need not be on the sea- 

 shore. We are discussing a marine science and technology program at 

 my own university in Minnesota, which is equidistant from the Gulf of 

 Mexico and the Atlantic, the Pacific and Arctic Oceans. We think we 

 have an advantage that none of them are too far away from us. 



I don't think all space science is necssarily done next to the launching 

 pads at Cape Kennedy, and I believe that the seashore resources, the 

 seashore facilities that are needed by inland colleges could be in charge 

 of the sea grant college which, themselves, are on the sea. They could 

 have a brother-sister relationship, a symbiotic relationship, with those 

 fortunate enough to be on the sea supplying the facilities for those, 

 their coworkers in land colleges. 



I would personally like to see grants offshore seabottom lands and 

 waters to some of tlie colleges analagous to the land grants made years 

 ago. But this, tliough desira!)le, if not feasible at the moment, should 

 not prevent us from moving toward the other important aspects of 

 this bill. 



