This mixed-sound production includes scenes of fishing off a jetty, collecting fish and crabs for research, the Hatfield Marine Science Center campus, tide pooling, the Yaquina research vessel, wave research tanks, and participants at a large Sea Grant meeting. The film's sound components include several interviews on the role that the Sea Grant program plays both in Oregon and nationwide. Included in the interviewees is Donald McKinnon, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State - Office of Fisheries and Wildlife. Another narrator is described as a state fishery management spokesman. The film also includes footage of Oregon Governor Tom McCall speaking at the Portland Hilton on the value of ocean resources and the need to protect Oregon's coastal ecosystems.
Digitized from a film original held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communications Moving Images (FV 120:142), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
