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The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries would set up an office to handle grants 
and contracts under this system. They should, I think, also use the system em- 
ployed by NSF and NIH, sending proposals to a committee (permanent or ad 
hoe, or a mixture) of qualified scientists outside the Government for evaluation 
In this way the scientific merits of proposals would be given a harder scrutiny 
than they would if only Bureau personnel read them. 
S. 901, with the changes suggested, has the support of the Institute of Marine 
Science of the University of Miami, and we urge prompt, favorable action on it 
by this committee. 
Dr. Ipytu. I am Clarence P. Idyll, I have a Ph. D. from the College 
of Fisheries of the University of Washington. I am chairman of the 
department of marine sciences at the University of Miami. In this 
department we give graduate work in oceanography, in fisheries, and 
in marine biology. We grant the degrees of master of science and 
doctor of philosophy. 
All our courses, with two exceptions, are graduate courses. 
I am also chairman of the division of fisheries at the University of 
Miami, Marine Laboratory. In this capacity I am responsible for the 
fisheries research. oe 
I would like to say something about the graduate training of 
oceanographers and fishery biologists. At the present time we have 
53 students who are candidates for one of the two degrees: master 
of science or doctor of philosophy. This is the utmost capacity of our 
department at the moment. 
We cannot take any more students because the training is several 
years in duration. We are only graduating some 8 to 10 students each 
year. We feel that this is completely inadequate in terms of the 
Nation’s needs for training people in these fields, and we have the 
aim of at least doubling the number. In other words, we would like 
to have in training at any particular time at least a hundred students, 
and possibly 150, because again the number that you can graduate is 
about a fifth of the number that you have training. 
At the moment we are completely unable to accept more than about 
50 students in our graduate work. Our situation is similar to that 
discussed by Dr. Pritchard in that there simply is not space for desks, 
and chairs in our halls. 
Senator Smatuers. But you do have a large number who seek to 
get this training ? 
Dr. Ipyiu. Yes, sir. 
Senator Smaruers. But the physical plant is what limits the num- 
ber of the students, is that right ? 
Dr. Ipyiu. That is correct, Senator. 
I have in my statement here the number of people who have made 
application to our school for the last several years. Starting in 1953, 
we had 40 such inquiries, and it increased. ‘There was a slight drop 
during the depression, and then last year, the last full year of inquiry, 
we had 389 such inquiries. This year for the first 2 months the curve 
is still rising. 
In other words we have a great many people who inquire. Of course 
some of them are not qualified and would not be taken even if we had 
the space. On the other hand, as Dr. Pritchard said, we have a lot of 
people who apply who are qualified and whom we cannot take. 
What we need, and what S. 901 provides, is assistance for our 
school in training these people. I have a list of six things here which 
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