Excerpt from Our Nation and the Sea, a Plan for National Action: Report of the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources; January, 1969 How fully and wisely the United States uses the sea in the decades ahead will affect profoundly its security, its economy, its abil ity to meet increasing demands for food and raw materials, its position and influence in the world community, and the quality of the environment in which its people live. The need to develop an adequate national ocean program arises from a combination of rapidly converging and interacting forces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.