ABSTRACT
In the United States, the whole area of ocean policy and management has become very trendy in the past five or six years. Almost every federal agency with any ocean activities, as well as both houses of Congress, have in progress some sort of ocean policy and management study. The governance of national sea power comprises two inter-related areas: ocean policy and ocean management. Centralization of ocean activities within a new or existing agency of the federal government will not work. The polar points of argument in the ocean management dialogue appear to be either advocacy of a monolithic super ocean agency at the cabinet level, or nothing. Ocean policy and management are nonseparable. One without the other will result in very little remedy for the critical problems that the United States faces as a sea power.
