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on Conservation of Living Resources of the Sea, Rome, 1955; Expert on Fish- 
eries on Secretariat of International Conference on Law of the Sea, Geneva, 
1958; Member, U.S. delegation to Int. Scientific Conference on Disposal of 
Radioactive Wastes, Monaco, 1959; Official observer, Second Int. Conference 
on Law of the Sea, Geneva, 1960; Consultant, Special Committee of Am. Soc. 
Limnology and Oceanography on Education and Manpower 1959-60; Represen- 
tative of Nat. Acad. Sci. on Advisory Board of National Oceanographic Data Cen- 
ter 1960-63 ; Consultant, Special Fund of the United Nations 1960-65 ; Member, 
Latin American Working Group on Earth Sciences of the President's Science 
Advisory Council 1961; Member, Latin America Science Board Nat. Acad. Sci., 
1963-1968 ; SCOR representative on Marine Communities Working Group for 
the International Biological Program 1963-64; Member NAS Nutrition Board’s 
Scientific Advisory Committee on Marine Protein Resource Development 1963— ; 
Chairman, Standing Committee on Marine Sciences ‘of Pacific Science Association 
1962-66; Member, Study Team for U.S. National Aquarium 1963-66; Member, 
Study Committee of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 1964; 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.: Member, Panel of Fisheries 
Experts 1963—, Member, Expert Panel for Facilitation of Tuna Research, 1964— 
(Chairman 1964-66), Member, IWP (Indicative World Plan) Working Group 
on Marine Resources Appraisal, 1966—; (California) Governor’s Advisory Com- 
mission on Ocean Resources 1965-67 (Chairman, 1965-66). Member, Geophysics: 
Research Board of Nat. Acad. Sci—Nat. Res. Council 1965-67; Member, Com- 
mittee on Science and Technology of the National Citizen’s Commission on: 
International Cooperation 1965; Member, Advisory Committee on Fisheries 
Oceanography, Department of State 1965—; Member, ad hoc Committee for 
Evaluation of Study of Economic Benefits from the Continental Shelf, Depart- 
ment of Commerce, Environmental Sciences Service Administration, 1965-66 ; 
Board of Directors, National Oceanography Association, 1966-67 ; Board of Direc- 
tors, Regional Plan Association of Southern California, 1966-67; Consultant, 
National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development 1967, 1969 
); Member, Department of Interior Advisory Committee on Marine Resources 
Development, 1967; Member, California Commission on Marine and Coastal 
Resources, 1967—. 
Scholastic and Professional Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi; American 
Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists; Pacific Fishery Biologists (Presi-. 
dent, 1939-40); American Fisheries Society; American Geophysical Union; 
American Statistical Association; Biometrics Society ; American Society of Lim- 
nology and Oceanography (President, Western Division 1956-57) ; American 
Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (Founding Fellow) ; Marine Technology 
Society ; Fellow, California Academy of Sciences. 
STATEMENT OF DR. MILNER B. SCHAEFER, DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE 
OF MARINE RESOURCES, SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOG- 
RAPHY; AND FORMER SCIENCE ADVISER TO THE SECRETARY 
OF THE INTERIOR 
Dr. Scparrer. In fact, Mr. Chairman, Dr. ‘Spilhaus asked me to 
inform you that he might not get here and to present his apologies. He 
and I were together in Costa Rica last week on some lobster business 
that we are involved in together, and I left on Thursday evening. He 
was going to stay over Friday and to stop by Grand Cayman, and he 
said in case he did not get here to please present his most profound 
apologies. 
Mr. Downrne. All right. 
Dr. Scrarrer. Mr. ‘Chairman and committee members: I am ex- 
tremely pleased to be invited to appear before von today to disenss a 
few of the aspects of the report of the Commission on Marine Science, 
Engineering and Resources. 
Mv name is Milner B. Schaefer. Iam professor of Oceanography in 
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and director of the univer- 
