resources. Field operations commencing in 1963 have been 

 named EQUALANT I (February-April 1963), EQUALANT II (August- 

 September 1963) and EQUALANT III (February-March 1964). 

 Fourteen vessels from seven nations participated in EQUALANT I; 

 eleven vessels from eight nations in EQUALANT II; eight vessels 

 from six nations in EQUALANT III. The Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries has functioned as International Coordinator of the 

 ICITA. Data resulting from the program are being processed 

 by the National Oceanographic Data Center. 



The total cost to the United States in the International 

 Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic has been 

 about $3,000,000, all of which has come out of regularly 

 sponsored programs. 



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