SEA GRANT COLLEGES 231 



With the population of the world growing at a truly alarming rate, and with 

 relatively limited land areas suitable for producing essential nutrients, the sea 

 remains as a potentially important source of food. Advances in techniques for 

 exploiting even the known resources in the oceans of the world could eliminate 

 the possibility of a worldwide food shortage. The importance to the Nation 

 of obtaining the minerals in and under the sea requires no further emphasis 

 here. Research on these matters is a national necessity. Thus, a rapidly 

 accelerating increase in what we know about the sea and how to obtain what 

 we need from it may be literally essential to the survival of man. 



Senator Pell. It is very nice to have support from all over the 

 United States because we have had quite ,a degree of geographic spread 

 in the testimony offered here in the last couple of days and in Khode 

 Island on Monday. 



Tomorrow is the final day of these hearings. The record will be 

 kept open, as I said earlier, until May 12 for any additional or sup- 

 plemental statements. 



The hearing is now recessed until tomorrow morning in this room 

 at 10 o'clock. 



(Whereupon, at 11 :55 a.m. the subcommittee recessed to reconvene 

 at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 5, 1966.) 



