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Fish Commission and the OflBee of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries were 

 placed in the Department of Commerce and Labor which was created by the 

 latter act. That same act transferred from the Department of the Treasury to 

 the Department of Commerce and Labor jurisdiction, supervision, and control 

 over the fur seal, salmon, and other fisheries of Alaska (32 Stat. 828). There- 

 after, this entity was called the Bureau of Fisheries. 



By the act of March 4. 1913 (37 Stat. 736), the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor was divided into two separate departments and the Bureau of Fisheries 

 remained with the Department of Commerce until July 1, 1939, when the 1939 

 Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1433) transferred the Bureau of Fisheries 

 to the Department of the Interior. 



The Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey, both in the 

 Department of the Interior, were consolidated into one agency to be known as 

 the Fish and Wildlife Service by the 1940 Reorganization Flan No. Ill (54 Stat. 

 1232), which became effective June 30, 1940. 



By the terms of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, approved August 8, 1956 

 (70 Stat. 1119), there was established within the Department of the Interior to 

 succeed the then existing Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Fish and W^ildlife 

 Service consisting of two separate agencies, each with the status of a Federal 

 bureau, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries 

 and Wildlife. 



National Academy of Sciences, 



Nation AX, Reseakch Council, 

 Committee on Oceanogeaphy, 



Washington, D.C., May 2, 1966. 

 Hon. Claiborne Pell, 

 U.S. Senate, 

 Washington, B.C. 



Dear Sir : Our knowledge and understanding of the oceans and its contents 

 are growing rapidly. With this increasing knowledge, comes the jvossibility 

 of making fuller use of the ocean's resources. These resources range from oil, 

 minerals, new sources of animal protein, and pharmaceuticals to the uses of 

 the oceans for recreational purposes and the development of cheai)er and safer 

 waste disposal systems. New technology has made possible the development 

 of better vehicles for moving through the oceans at all depths ; and deep ocean 

 anchored buoys hold promise of better monitoring of the ocean-atmosphere 

 system and of markedly improving our 3-10-day weather forecasts. We believe 

 the United States should continue to play a leading role in these developments. 



The analogy of the land-grant concept to the development of our ocean resources 

 as incorporated in S. 2439 is attractive. The agricultural productivity of this 

 Nation is unsurpassed and much of the credit for this fact must go to the develop- 

 ment of the land-grant college movement. Land-grant colleges, with their 

 wide range of activities including agricultural experiment stations and extension 

 services, have been singularly successful in bringing the findings of science 

 out of the laboratory and classroom and transferring these ideas into practical 

 application. Land-grant colleges also have provided the services of the labora- 

 tory to solve some of the day-to-day problems of the farmer. Most importantly, 

 the land-grant college movement provided the agricultural industry with well- 

 trained men and women capable of utilizing the new ideas of the laboratory and 

 experiment station and of further developing our agricultural resources. 



We believe a similarly conceived program for developing our ocean resources 

 could do much to insure the continuing leadership of the United States in this 

 area. We believe such a program could provide the necessary impetus to bring 

 about an expanded effort in the development and exploitation of the oceans' 

 resources. 



Thus, we endorse the principle of S. 2439, the National Sea Grant College and 

 Program Act of 1965. 

 Sincerely yours, 



Milner B. Schaefer, Chainnan. 



