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requirement to meet the Nation’s need in this field. It called for a 
large increaso in long-term basic research, for replacement of in- 
adequate and obsolete research vessels and the construction of addi- 
tional ones, for comprehensive oceanographic and biological surveys, 
for the construction and use of unmanned buoys to measure the season- 
to-season and year-to-year changes in the ocean which affect the fish- 
eries, for research on behavior of fishes, for laboratory studies to 
elucidate some of the important causes of fluctuations in the fish stocks, 
for the establishment of a National Oceanographic Data Center, and 
for vigorous efforts to increase the trained manpower devoted to 
oceanographic research. AS 
We were very pleased that all of these things were provided for 
in the Magunson bill of the last Congress, and were disappointed that 
its passage was not completed. We would hope that the new bill, S. 
901, which again provides for these essential studies would receive 
favorable action. it 
It is to be noted that, through the efforts of the Interagency Com- 
mittee on Oceanography working under the Federal Council, and the 
efforts of individual departments, some of the recommendations have 
been implemented, at least in part. We are particularly pleased to 
note that a National Oceanographic Data Center has been established 
with joint support from several departments. Little progress has, 
however, been made on other items of at least equal importance. 
Despite strong recommendations of the Committee on Ocean- 
ography, and of a special Committee of the American Society of 
Limnology and Oceanography, regarding the critical need for funds 
to increase the education of oceanographers, practically no progress 
has been made in this direction. 
The Committee on Oceanography recommended construction, over 
a 10-year period, of 14 new ships for research on marine resources, 7 
to replace existing overage and obsolete craft. Funds have been ap- 
propriated to construct one new vessel, meanwhile three have been 
removed from the service of the Bureau of Fisheries, and one other is 
being operated with a short crew and lack of adequate maintenance. 
It would appear that we are losing ground. . 
The Cuairman. Dr. Revelle testified that the recommendations of 
the Committee were taken not completely literally, but sort of as 
guidelines. Surely in ship construction this is literally a minimum 
program. 
Dr. Scuarrer. The minimum guideline should be more, not less. 
We should be gaining instead of falling behind. © 
Very little attention has been given to the development of unmanned 
instrument buoys, and practically none to the development of meso- 
scaphs and other new instrumentation for resources research. No 
action has been taken on the construction of laboratory facilities for 
the study of fish behavior or for the critically important studies of 
the survival of young stages of marine organisms. Provisions of per- 
sonnel to commence biological surveys of the oceans aboard vessels 
making cruises for other purposes has been negligible. 
It is my firm opinion that the required program in resources re- 
search is not likely to be activated without further stimulation, and 
Tam very pleased to note that S. 901 authorizes appropriations to the 
Department of Interior and other agencies for these purposes, and 
