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the witness respond that they were involved in the secondary school 

 education, which would be the high school level, in the ocean sciences 

 and programs. 



They went on to say that every high school in America received 

 a copy of their booklet that they send out annually, which rather shook 

 me up, because I am sure if my high schools in North Carolina, many 

 of which are right on the ocean, had received such information from 

 the National Science Foundation, I would have had some inquiries 

 from students, how can I get into program like this? 



We do not question it, but it was a little surprising. 



I think you raised a good point to request the witnesses to put in the 

 record, too, Mr. Kogers, these secondary school model programs in the 

 educational centers and their locations. I think you will find them 

 necessarily related to either the Great Lakes or the Atlantic or the 

 Pacific or the gulf coast, which is par for the course. 



I think the real gist of this thing is to try to ascertain, through your 

 insertion in the record, because, certainly, in order to qualify for a 

 fellowship at the university or college they must have a faculty ca- 

 pability for teaching. That would give us some idea where the univer- 

 sities and colleges are so that we might suggest to young people who 

 write to us, as they do : 



Where would you suggest that I apply for admission to college? I am interested 

 in marine sciences, but also my family is not financially able to send me through, 

 and I am hoping I can qualify for an NDEA scholarship. 



That would be helpful to us. Thank you, sir. _ 



Mr. Rogers. Let us go to this question of inspection. Wlio has the 

 responsibility to inspect^fish packing plants ? 



Dr. Jacobs. FDA has authority under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 

 Act to inspect fish processing plants. They do such inspections, and 

 special ones, if they have any reason to believe that there is a problem 

 with them. 



Mr. Rogers. I am not saying if they could do it. I am asking who 

 does it. Do they actually have a program of doing this effectively? 



Dr. Jacobs. Yes, they do, so far as I know, although they do not 

 have the resources to do so as regularly as might be desirable. The 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries also has an inspection service. 



Mr. Rogers. For health ? 



Dr. Jacobs. I believe so, but I am not familiar enough with it to tell 

 you precisely what they do. 



Mr. Rogers. Will you submit a statement for the record on how this 

 is done? Public Health does it for shellfish. 



Dr. Jacobs. Yes. 



Mr. Rogers. Do they do it at the packing plant, or where is this 

 done? 



Dr. Jacobs. They survey the waters where the shellfish are pro- 

 duced. They also go into the plants. They do work on what they call 

 the depuration of the shellfish. 



Mr. Rogers. Will you let us have that for the record, and give us 

 some answer as to whether there is a program for inspection of fish 

 packing plants, fish canning plants, and for fresh fish. Who inspects 

 fresh fish ? 



Dr. Jacors. I will submit that for the record. 



