Other nations are training more and more specialists in marine science and technology. The human and physical resources of these nations are today being increasingly employed to probe the oceans and possess their treasure. and this worldwide contest for vast new wealth in foods. in minerals. in chemicals. and in liquid fuels will intensify. not diminish. We can see it today where a dozen overseas nations are competing for the living resources in the waters off New England. and along the Pacific Northwest and Alaskan coasts where massive fishing fleets of Asiatic powers are crowding us off the seas. Tomorrow these nations may seek other resourceson or beneath the Continental Shelf. At hearings on S. 944.