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The gentleman who has just testified is with a company that I 
assume is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenneco. By any chance are 
you the wholly owned subsidiary of the Travelers Insurance Co. ? 
Mr. Brooxs. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Travelers 
Corp., of Hartford, Conn., and it is not by chance. 
Mr. Lennon. I wondered about that. Go ahead, sir. 
Mr. Brooxs. I am particularly pleased to be here at your request 
to comment on the Stratton commission report. 
Let me say at the outset that in my opinion it is an extraordinary 
report in both its quality and its importance and I welcome this 
opportunity to underscore those portions of it that I feel most 
strongly about. 
I might also say it is a formidable report and I do not claim to be 
equally informed on all portions of it. 
In speaking about the report, let me say first that my point of view 
might be described as that of an outsider or to use a less modest term a 
generalist. The point is that I do not identify myself nor the Travelers 
Research Corp. with any particular use of the sea, food, drugs, min- 
erals waste disposal, recreation, transportation, weather prediction, 
defense, education or science. 
Rather for many years I personally have viewed the sea and its con- 
tents as a complex and many faceted but essentially single resource, 
which lends itself to all of the many uses which I have just mentioned 
as does the terrestrial environment but like the terrestrial environment 
is In jeopardy because of overexploitation by some users, underexploi- 
tation or outright neglect by other potential users, conflicts among 
uses and among users everywhere being resolved more by accommoda- 
tion to the pressure of special interest groups than to a management 
rationale which is clearly expressive of the national interests. 
This viewpoint of the sea as a single resource I think is shared by 
many others. It was implicit I believe, Mr. Chairman, in the 1959 
report the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography 
which in a sense 10 years ago led off the inquiry that we are engaged 
in today. 
I know it was explicit in the ICO Long-Range National Oceano- 
graphic Plan entitled Oceanography—the 10 Years Ahead, which was 
published in 1963 and in which IT had a hand. 
It has pervaded the hearings of this subcommittee I believe since its 
establishment in 1959 and most particularly it was evident in the hear- 
ings conducted during August of 1965 which led to the establishment 
of the Marine Council and the Commission. 
The three annual reports of the Marine Sciences Council also ex- 
press this point of view I believe and finally it receives its most im- 
pressive documentation to date in the Commission report which we are 
reviewing now. 
Briefly stated I think it boils down to a statement that, although 
budgetary starvation or undernourishment of many if not most of 
the U.S. marine activities has been generally cited as an important 
contributory cause to the generally unsatisfactory state of our marine 
posture, these 10 years of study by a wide variety of highly qualified 
groups has identified the fragmentation of the effort and the lack of 
a central authority with overall responsibility for the harmonious and 
