. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Vehicle to study ocean's upper layers. Biologist Reginald Gooding in observation chamber of raft "Nenue" of BCF's Biological Laboratory in Honolulu. Gooding designed and built it to study fishes that accumulate underfloating objects at sea. View chamber extends 7 ft. under water. In cramped quarters, biologists view and photograph many creatures. (Photo: J. J. Ivfagnuson) to expand programs in ecology. Five of the 7 new grants are for the same purpose. Avoid Unplanned Exploitation The chief of the foundation's natural re- sources
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Vehicle to study ocean's upper layers. Biologist Reginald Gooding in observation chamber of raft "Nenue" of BCF's Biological Laboratory in Honolulu. Gooding designed and built it to study fishes that accumulate underfloating objects at sea. View chamber extends 7 ft. under water. In cramped quarters, biologists view and photograph many creatures. (Photo: J. J. Ivfagnuson) to expand programs in ecology. Five of the 7 new grants are for the same purpose. Avoid Unplanned Exploitation The chief of the foundation's natural re- sources and environment program, Gordon Harrison, made clear that the organization did not seek to stop or even slow mankind's exploitation of environments. It did want to help man exploit wisely--and so avoid the disastrous results of unplanned exploitation. Harrison said industry creates civiliza- tions, but industrial exploitation has polluted man's environment. He noted that inorganic fertilizers increase crop yields--but deplete the soil. And new fishing techniques greatly increase the catch--but encourage over- fishing. This, Harrison added, threatens the survival of food fishes on which people and large industries depend. Population Boom To these problems, Harrison emphasized, add the population explosion. "The precipitous increase in human pop- ulation has begun all over the world to put unprecedented demands on natural resources to feed and clothe the multiplying generations, to absorb wastes of industrial and life proc- esses, and to provide living environments conducive to human well-being," he said. "Some of the first consequences of these population pressures are already critical and highly visible--inadequate food supply in the less developed nations, pollution in developed ; Governments apply technological reme- dies that work for a time. But they can have "consequences in the longer run that precipi- tate other crises, unless ecology and r
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