applications of commercial and operational use. 
For example, an experimental demonstration pro- 
gram, the Fisheries Demonstration Program, was 
conducted on the U.S. West Coast to assess the 
utility of environmental charts tailored for com- 
mercial fishing operations. This program, initiated 
in 1981, continued until cessation of CZCS data 
and showed the value of ocean-color data in in- 
creasing catch efficiency. Based on the success 
of this program, the value-added industry is still 
using sea-surface temperature data from the 
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 
Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometer 
(AVHRR) to support U.S. and Japanese fishing 
fleets. As discussed in some detail in the follow- 
ing sections, these data are of importance to sev- 
eral other user groups in the private and public 
sectors, including the marine-transportation in- 
dustry, offshore oil exploration and production in- 
dustry, and the U.S. Navy, which has an ongoing 
research program to develop applications for 
ocean-color data. 
