NATIONAL MARINE SCIENCES PROGRAM 



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1967 



House of Representatives, 

 Stjbcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ D.G. 

 The subcommittee met, pursuant to recess, at 10:10 a.m., in room 

 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Paul G. Rogers 

 presiding, 



Mr. Rogers. The committee will come to order, please. _ 

 We have two witnesses this morning. We will try to divide the time 

 so each can be heard. 



Our first witness is Dr. Stanley A. Cain, Assistant Secretary for 

 Fish and Wildlife, and Parks, of the Department of the Interior. 



We shall be pleased to hear you, Dr. Cain. If you would like, you 

 may summarize your testimony, or whatever procedure you prefer will 

 suit the committee. 



STATEMENT OE DR. STANLEY A. CAIN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY EOR 

 FISH AND WILDLIFE, AND PARKS, DEPARTMENT OF THE IN- 

 TERIOR; ACCOMPANIED BY HOWARD ECKLES, PROGRAM MAN- 

 AGER FOR OCEAN RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



Dr. Cain. May I ask Mr. Howard Eckles to come up with me, 

 please ? 



Mr. Rogers. Yes. 



Dr. Cain. If we need them, we have some other staff members whom 

 we will introduce later. 



Mr. Rogers. Fine. 



Dr. Cain. You gentlemen have before you copies of this testimony. 

 It looks pretty formidable in terms of pages, but the actual text, I 

 think, is not too burdensome, and I will try to shortcut in places and 

 would prefer to read from the text in other places. 



Mr. Rogers. Will you so indicate ? 



Dr. Cain. I will do so. 



As a matter of fact, pages 1 and 2 suggest what it is that the testi- 

 mony is about, and that can simply stand the way it is. 



I would call attention on page 3 to a table, the purpose of which is 

 to indicate that the demand for natural resources is growing consider- 

 ably more rapidly than population, although population growth itself 

 is reasonably rapid. There are estimates here which have been prepared 

 in the Department for 1980 and the year 2000 for the purposes of 

 suggesting that as we go forward we are being confronted with more 

 and more serious demands nationally for certain resources. 



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