ABSTRACT
The workshop was convened for the specific purpose of examining the state of the art in national ocean policy studies being done in academic institutions and making a recommendation as to whether the Marine Science Affairs Program should invite proposals on national ocean policy problems. The universality of the movement toward enclosure is an argument that national ocean policy actually does exist de facto. Coders examined approximately 6,000 items, of which 966 were thought to deal with national ocean policy. National ocean policy studies should teach decision-makers to manage scarce resources in an era of limits. Several workshop participants pointed to the fact that the rules of the previous international ocean system, which appeared to be equitable, have had inequitable consequences. The major ocean-using states, they said, have captured a disproportionate percentage of the economic value in using the ocean.
