the environment lend urgency to the requirement 

 for improved biological prediction. Capabilities for 

 biological prediction now are relatively primitive 

 and limited to a few commercially significant 

 species. To improve the efficiency of fishery 

 operations accurate forecasts of the abundance 

 and distribution of major marine populations must 

 be made. Rates of production and mortality, 

 interactions with other species and with the 

 environment must be predictable, not only from 

 the point of view of developing new food sources 

 and gauging the effects of existing fisheries, but 

 also to evaluate the effects of man's modification 

 of the environment. 



Recommendation : 



Intensive research efforts should be mounted to 

 provide the necessary understanding of oceanic 

 processes in: 



—Sea-air interaction 



—Scales of motion 



—Dynamics of ocean currents 



—Biological-physical enviroiunental relationships 



Such understanding is essential for development 

 of a wide range of environmental predictions. 



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