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If not, the subcommittee appreciates your appearance here today. 
Our next witness is Dr. Christy. We are happy to have with us this 
morning a member of the Economic Committee of the Marine Tech- 
nology Society and a member of the board of directors of the Law 
of the Sea Institute, Dr. Francis T. Christy, Jr., of Resources for the 
Future. 
Will you proceed, sir, and if we have time to question both of you, we 
certainly look forward to it. 
(Dr. Christy’s biographical résumé follows :) 
BIoOGRAPHICAL RESUME 
Born November 4, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y. Ph.D. (Conservation), University of 
Michigan, 1964. Research Associate, Resources for the Future, Ine. since 1953. 
BOOKS 
Potter and Christy, Trends in Natural Resource Commodities (Baltimore: 
Johns Hopkins Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1962), 569 pp. 
Christy and Anthony Scott, The Common Wealth in Ocean Fisheries (Balti- 
more: Johns Hopkins Press for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1965), 281 pp. 
ARTICLES 
“Realities of Ocean Resources,” Marine Technology Society Journal, Vol. 8, 
No. 1 (January 1969), pp. 33-388. 
“Heonomie Criteria for Rules Governing the Exploitation of Deep Sea Min- 
erals”’, The International Lawyer, Vol. II, No. 2 (January, 1968) pp. 224-242. 
“Alternative Regimes for Minerals of the Sea Floor,” Natural Resources Law- 
yer, Vol. I, No. 2 (June 1968), pp. 63-67. 
“Protein Concentrate and a Rationalized Fishery,’ in Harle O. Heady, ed.. 
Alternatives for Balancing Future World Food Production and Needs (Ames: 
The Iowa State University Press, 1967), pp. 145-158. 
“The Distribution of the Sea’s Wealth in Fisheries,” in L. Alexander, ed., The 
Law of the Sea (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1967), pp. 106—21. 
ORGANIZATIONS 
Member, Executive Committee, The Law of the Sea Institute; Economic Po- 
tential Committee, Marine Technology Society; Law Committee, Marine Tech- 
nology Society ; Commission to Study the Organization of Peace; Economic Ad- 
visory Committee, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries; Advisory Panel for Sea- 
Grant Projects, National Science Foundation; Consultant, National Council 
on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. 
STATEMENT OF DR. FRANCIS T. CHRISTY, JR., RESOURCES FOR 
THE FUTURE, INC., WASHINGTON, D.C.; MEMBER, ECONOMICS 
COMMITTEE, MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY; AND MEMBER, 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, LAW OF THE SEA INSTITUTE 
Dr. Curisty. Thank you. 
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I appreciate the 
opportunity to be here today. I have prepared a statement which I will 
not read in the interest of saving time. 
_ Mr. Lennon. Without objection, Dr. Christy’s statement will be 
inserted in the record immediately following his summary of his 
statement. Thank you very much. 
Dr. Curisty. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
I restricted my statement to one specific area of the Commission’s 
report. because I felt that this was a particularly important one and 
