MARINE SCIENCE 47 
Yet, with new understanding of the ocean had come new realization of basic 
ignorance about it. New demands for further understanding had come from 
the burgeoning salt water sports fishery, the State beach erosion board, the 
State pollution board, the climatologists who worried about the amount of 
ocean desposited as snow in the Sierras each winter which kept this mostly 
desert State alive during the rest of the year, the Atomic Energy Commission 
that wanted safe places to dispose of its wastes, the merchant shipping people 
who wanted to know about waves and storms, the Navy that wanted to know 
about everything, and a dozen other entities who had come to use the ocean 
newly or more fully. 
The marine research committee was after all a creature of the commercial 
fishing industry. It did not claim to be all knowing about the ocean. It was 
paying most of the cost of all the basic ocean research in the area to the 
point where its own most desired research projects were suffering from want. 
New customers for ocean understanding which it had neither solicited, wanted 
nor very well understood, were clamoring for new ocean understanding which 
needed new research money to gain, and they were chipping nothing into the 
research pot except complaints. 
Accordingly, the marine research committee of the State of California has 
recently taken two more steps which it hopes will be far-reaching: 
(1) It has directed its chairman to ask the Governor of California to convene, 
or cause to be convened, a competent ad hoc committee of scientists and admin- 
istrators to examine into, and program for, all the needs that the State of 
California has and may soon have in the way of knowledge about the neighboring 
ocean and its inhabitants. 
It has suggested that the Governor consider the advantageousness of soliciting 
the National Academy of Sciences to make available its committee on oceanog- 
raphy, or 2 competent panel thereof, for this purpose for two reasons: (@) That 
the State’s program of ocean research be fully integrated with the Nation’s 
program; and (0) that the same high competence used by NASCO in its Federal 
programing can be brought to bear upon the similar if smaller State problems. 
(2) Having decided to do this and knowing that useful results could not be 
anticipated from this request for some time to come, the marine research com- 
mittee decided to cast caution aside and design its research program on a larger 
seale than it could itself fund, in the hopes that if it designed a suitable program 
of expanded ocean research for the area it could talk some of its new and un- 
solicited customers into chipping a few research dollars into the pot and bearing 
part of the new research load they demanded. 
With this in mind the marine research committee requested its CALCOFI 
committee to forget for the time being all budgetary restrictions and design for 
it a comprehensive program of research for the California Current which would 
wring all useful knowledge and understanding possible from the dust-catching 
stocks of data and specimens on the shelf and designed to inquire compre- 
hensively, and not just fisherywise, into the processes of the California Current. 
After years of tight budgetary controls, this competent group of scientists 
found it difficult to throw of the shackles of small thought which this had put 
upon them. Accordingly, the first draft of their report fell well short of what 
the committee had in mind. Accordingly, the marine research committee gave 
them an A for effort and asked them to try again. 
The CALCOFI group did try again and did considerably better this time. It 
submitted a list of suitable projects underway at present and desirable new 
projects for which new funding would be necessary, under four headings: Sur- 
veys, Sardine Research, Capital Expenses, and Utilization. The program called 
in total for about $1,250,000 of new capital expenses, and a little less than 
$1 million per year of new operating money for the next 5 years. 
The marine research committee felt that this new program came a good deal 
nearer to what it had in mind, although it was admittedly an incomplete pro- 
gram and the fourth section, ‘Utilization,’ had received so little close thought 
that it was merely sketched in. A copy of this second, tentative draft of a new 
marine research committee program of investigating the California Current area 
is attached for your background information. It does not purport to be either 
complete, adequate, or finished. 
This new program was sufficiently satisfactory that the marine research com- 
mittee tentatively adopted the first three sections of it (surveys, sardine re- 
search, and capital outlay), so that efforts could be initiated to seek the new 
funding at once. The committee then asked CALCOFI to rework the whole 
