126 MARINE SCIENCE 
Industrial participation and competence in this field is increasing 
and can be most useful when tied closely to seagoing R. & D. projects. 
Thank you. 
The Cuarrman. Thank you, Doctor. I appreciate your coming. 
Dr. Ving. Thank you. 
The Cuarrman. Dr. Hargis? 
No response. ) 
‘De Hargis’ statement will appear subsequently in the hearing 
record. ) . 
The Cuairman. Dr. Donaldson is our next witness. He is the 
director of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of 
Washington. ) 
STATEMENT OF DR. LAUREN R. DONALDSON, PROFESSOR OF FISH- 
ERIES, AND DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORY ON RADIATION 
BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WASH. 
Dr. Donatpson. Senator Magnuson, the University of Washington, 
as you have inferred from discussions already, presented to your 
committee, is an institution with a long history of sustained and en- 
larging interest in the marine sciences. I should lke to talk to you 
today about two additional aspects of this interest, particularly as 
they relate to the measure before you, the Marine Sciences and Re- 
search Act of 1961. 
The first of these interests concerns the training of students in 
fisheries science in the college of fisheries of the university, where 
undergraduate and graduate degrees in fisheries have been offered 
since 1918. Over the years there has emerged a new science of 
fisheries biology which has given the work of the college its special 
flavor and character, and I think this area is well described in the 
current annual report of the college. Permit me to quote here a 
statement from that report: 
The primary objective of fisheries science is the efficient use of our waters 
to produce food and to provide recreation. This has required the development 
of a new science of fisheries biology involving the application of fundamental 
principles of mathematics, zoology, chemistry, physics, botany, and engineering 
to the varied and complex problems concerned with exploitation and control 
of the naturally renewable resources of the oceans and inland waters. Wisheries 
biology owes its independent existence as a branch of science to the need to 
integrate these diverse areas of knowledge and to extend some of them to fit 
the situations resulting from the peculiar nature of the environment in which 
marine and other aquatic animals live and to the need to consider both ‘the 
environment and the living populations quantitatively as well as qualitatively. 
The members of the faculty in the various branches of the college are thus con- 
cerned with a variety of problems and subjects each related to his particular 
field of interest and competence. Consequently, research projects presently 
under investigation range from those of immediate practical significance to 
others primarily academic which are quite remote from any practical applica- 
tion. However, all science is directed to some extent toward the satisfaction 
of both the intellectual and the physical needs of mankind and fisheries is no 
exception to this (‘“Research in Fisheries, 1960.” College of Fisheries, Fisheries 
Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., contribution 
No. 116, p.2. (1961) ). 
The research projects conducted within the college of fisheries, both 
by members of the faculty and by the graduate students in the ful- 
fillment of their graduate requirements, are supported to a very large 
degree by the Federal Government and by the fishing industry of the 
