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Improved technology has sparked a drive in many countries to obtain as much oil and as many fish as possible. In the course of this drive to exploit resources, competition between nations has become keen and has caused bitter animosities. The United States Government acted in 1948 to set a precedent for national regulation. President Truman proclaimed that United States jurisdiction extended to the continental shelf and, for fishery conservation, to deep ocean waters. This action has prompted some Latin American governments to extend control over ocean waters as far as two hundred miles seaward from their coasts. Control of the oceans has become a sensitive topic throughout most of the world, and no complete agreement has yet been reached. At the same time that the industrial revolution brought forth the technology with which to make larger catches, it also bestowed the power to change the land and the sea. Birds and fish have had to give way to the needs of men for ports, industries, and homes. Great quantities of sewage, poisonous chemicals, and brine have been pumped into rivers, bays, and oceans. By the 1960's, the coastal areas of the United States and other countries were being transformed from natural nurseries for food-producing marine life into filthy sewers with contaminated shellfish. Estuaries were being filled with concrete and steel constructions. Thus, overfishing and coastal development added to natural depletion of marine food resources sometimes caused by change of climate or spread of disease. The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 is a manifestation of concern for our estuaries and bays. A campaign is in progress in the United States to stop some of the undesirable impact of pollution and development. Scientists have emphasized that these steps are necessary to protect the estuarine nursery areas. Without such actions many marine creatures, including fish and shrimp, will not be able to grow and to propagate. The success or failure of coastal zone management will have a direct effect on the abundance of marine food resources. Men have been protecting with proclamations and gunboats the same things that they have been destroying with pesticides, dredges, and concrete constructions. The current coastal management efforts will be a test of whether that destructive trend can be reversed.","abstract_html":"For centuries men have taken food from the sea. With the advent of the industrial revolution came the means with which to harvest and to utilize more fish. Since World War II, marine catches have been increasing as bigger, better equipped boats have been taken further out to sea. Some fishery stocks have been depleted as a result of intensive fishing. 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A campaign is in progress in the United States to stop some of the undesirable impact of pollution and development. Scientists have emphasized that these steps are necessary to protect the estuarine nursery areas. Without such actions many marine creatures, including fish and shrimp, will not be able to grow and to propagate. The success or failure of coastal zone management will have a direct effect on the abundance of marine food resources. Men have been protecting with proclamations and gunboats the same things that they have been destroying with pesticides, dredges, and concrete constructions. 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