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and university-sponsored laboratories. It is important to insure the continued 
strength of these laboratories so that they may continue to provide the leadership 
in marine science in the United States. 
If the act could include legislative guidelines providing for the continued inde- 
pendence of the contracts research program, I would enthusiastically support 
its passage. 
Sincerely yours, 
PauL M. FYE. 
CALIFORNIA ADVISORY COMMISSION ON MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES, 
Sacramento, September 16, 1969. 
Hon. ALTON LENNON, 
Chairman, Subcommittee on Oceanography, Committee on Merchant Marine and 
Fisheries, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 
DEAR CONGRESSMAN LENNON: At its Fifth meeting heid in Sacramento, Califor- 
nia, June 6 and 7, 1969, the California Advisory Commission on Marine and 
Coastal Resources undertook a review of the report “Our Nation and the Sea” 
of the President’s Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources. 
I attach hereto a copy of this report, which is extracted from pages 62 through 
70 of the Proceedings of the Fifth meeting of the California Advisory Commis- 
sion on Marine and Coastal Resources. I would appreciate it if this were inciuded 
in the record of your Hearings on H.R. 13247, as being pertinent thereto. 
The California Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources is 
appointed by the Governor of California pursuant to Legislation adopted in 1967. 
The list of current Commissioners is attached hereto, being excerpted from pages 
19 through 21 of the published reports of the Commission’s Fifth meeting. The 
Commissioners who attended the Fifth meeting and participated in these decisions 
are noted with an asterisk on this list. All other Commissioner’s had an opportu- 
nity to review these decisions before the proceedings of the Fifth meeting went 
to press. 
Several of these Commissioner’s (myself included pursuant to your invitation) 
will submit testimony on H.R. 13247 in their individual capacities, as will Lieu- 
tenant Reinecke, Chairman of the Interagency Council on Ocean Resources, on 
behalf of the Executive Branch of the California State Government. I thought, 
however, that it might be useful to you in your deliberations to have the com- 
ments adopted jointly by this Commission which is rather widely representative 
of industry and academic sectors of the California society. 
Sincerely yours, 
W. M. CHAPMAN, Chairman. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIrTH MEETING CALIFORNIA ADVISORY COMMISSION ON 
MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES 
Appendix XI Commission Review of the Report “Our Nation and the Sea” 
by the President Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources 
I. Transportation and Trade.—A. Recommendations Approved 
All conclusions and recommendations respecting transportation and trade 
given in Our Nation and the Sea and in Volumes 1 and 2 of the Commission’s 
panel reports. 
CMC Comment.—California will be affected markedly if these conclusions 
and recommendations are implemented. 
Il. Living Resources—A. Recommendations Approved 
1. Statement by the Commission that “U.S. interest in marine resource devel- 
opment must be viewed in terms of world needs and capabilities. The sea is a 
global source of goods and services for all mankind.” (Rpt. P. 83.) 
CMC Comment.—This statement plus the general policy of rejecting the idea 
that the United States should be self-sufficient in natural resources concludes 
that the United States is obviously benefited by maintaining the availability of 
all sources of raw material. From the point of view of the overall fish business 
this is an extremely important conclusion and clearly should be adopted as: 
national policy in order to maintain the environment of free trade that has always 
existed and which is essential to provide the United States with her total fish 
requirements. 
2, Recommendation that “the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency 
(BCF) be given statutory authority to assume regulatory jurisdiction of endan- 
gered fisheries when it can be demonstrated that: 
