MARINE SCIENCE 



THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960 



U.S. Senate, 

 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 



'Washington, D.O. 

 The committee met at 10:50 a.m., in room 5110, Senate Office Build- 

 ing, Hon. Warren G. Magnuson (chairman) presiding. 

 The Chairman. The committee will come to order. 

 We have a long list of very distinguished witnesses this morning 

 and we want to proceed as rapidly as possible because we would like 

 to get this testimony printed and get it before the committee. 



The first witness will be Dr. Milner B. Schaefer who represents the 

 Tropical Tuna Commission and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 

 Doctor, we will be glad to hear from you. 

 (A biographical sketch of Dr. Milner B. Schaefer follows:) 



MxLNEE Bailet Schaefer 



Address: Inter- American Tropical Tuna Commission, Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif. 



Bom : Cheyenne, Wyo., December 14, 1912. 



Major field of interest : Biology. 



Degrees: B.S., Washington (Seattle), 1935 ; Ph. D. 1950. 



Professional career : Assistant biologist, State fisheries department, Washing- 

 ton, 1935-36, biologist, 1936-38; scientists. International Pacific Salmon Fish- 

 eries Commission, New Westminster, British Columbia, 1938-42 ; aquatic biolo- 

 gist, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Stanford, 1946- 

 48, Honolulu, 1948-50; director investigations. Inter- American Tropical Tuna 

 Commission, 1951- . Research associate, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 

 1951, U.S. Navy, 1942-45. 



Member: Association Ichthyology & Herp: statistical association; Biomet. 

 Society; Geophysical Union; Society of Limnology and Oceanography; Fish- 

 eries Society, Pacific Fishery Biology (president, 1940), Committee on Oceanog- 

 raphy of NAS-NRO. 



Scientific contributions in: Biology, life history and ecology of commercial 

 marine fishes ; population dynamics of marine animals ; basic productivity of 

 the sea ; effects of atomic wastes in the sea. 



STATEMENT OF DR. MILNER B. SCHAEFER, DIRECTOR OF INVESTI- 

 GATIONS OF THE INTER-AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMIS- 

 SION; AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION 

 OF OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 



Mr. Schaefer. I am Milner B. Schaefer, director of the Investi- 

 gations of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, an inter- 

 national research organization operating under a convention among 

 Costa Rica, Panama, and the United States of America; I am also 

 a research associate of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of 

 the University of California. 



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