NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1969 
Hovuss or REPRESENTATIVES, 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, 
OF THE COMMITTEE ON MercHantr Marine AND FISHERIES, 
Washington, D.C. 
The subcommittee met at 10:20 a.m., pursuant to recess, in room 1334, 
Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Thomas N. Downing pre- 
siding. 
Mr. Downrne. The committee will come to order. 
This morning we will resume hearings on H.R. 13247 and the report 
Our Nation and the Sea. Our regular subcommittee chairman, Mr. 
Lennon of North Carolina, will not be able to be here today due to the 
fact that he has to appear before the Armed Services Committee in 
an effort to reinstate substantial funding for the Navy’s oceanographic 
program. 
So, to the witnesses, he has expressed his regret that he will not be 
here today. He will, however, resume the Chair tomorrow morning. 
This morning our first witness is Dr. Milner B. Schaefer, director, 
Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 
and former science adviser to the Secretary of the Interior. 
Dr. Schaefer, you were second on the list, but we are putting you 
first because Dr. Spilhaus has not arrived as yet. 
(Dr. Schaefer’s biographical résumé follows :) 
RisumMi oF Proressor MILNER B. SCHAEFER, MAy 12, 1969 
Cheyenne, Wyoming, December 14, 1912. 
B.S. Magna Cum Laude, University of Washington, 1935; Ph. D., University 
of Washington, 1950; International Fisheries Commission, Scientific Assistant 
1934-35; Washington State Department of Fisheries, Assistant Biologist 1935-37, 
Biologist 1937-39; International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, Scientist 
1939-42: U.S. Navy, Line Officer, 1942-46; School of Fisheries, University of 
Washington, Instructor 1946; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: South Pacific 
Fishery Investigations, Stanford University, Fishery Research Biologist 1946-48, 
Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations, Honolulu, Chief of Research and Develop- 
ment 1948-50; Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, Director of 
Investigations 1951-63, Scientific Consultant, 1963 ; University of California, 
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Research Associate 1951-62, in charge 
Biology Program, Operation WIGWAM 1954-55, Lecturer 1960-62, Professor of 
Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, 1962 ; Science 
Adviser to Secretary of Interior, 1967-69. 
Member, Nat. Acad. Sci. Nat. Res. Council, Committee on Effects of Atomic 
Radiation in Oceonography and Fisheries 1956-60; Member NAS-NRC Commit- 
tee on Oceanography 1957-1967 (Chairman 1964-1967) (Panel on Radioactivity 
in Marine Environment, 1957—; Panel on International Marine Scientific Affairs, 
1968—; Steering Committee for Study of International Decade of Ocean Explora- 
tion, 1968-1969) ; Hxpert on Fisheries on Secretariat of International Conference 
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