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Gdynia; Institute of Hydroengineering and the Maritime Institute, both at Gdansk; and the Marine Station at Sopot. The Marine Fisheries Institute has just acquired the 293-foot research ship Professor Siedlecki, which displaces 3,650 tons and has numerous laboratories. It is expected to be put in service in early 1973 and is designed to operate in the North Sea and the North and South Atlantic Oceans. The Institute also operates five other small research ships.

The Department of Fisheries, established in 1951 at the Higher School of Agriculture, is still operating and trains personnel in a 5-year program that includes oceanography.

Attendance of Polish oceanographers at most international meetings has been rather poor; however, Poland is a member of several important international oceanographic organizations such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and the Conference of Baltic Oceanographers. Poland cooperates closely with East European Communist countries in scientific exchange programs and joint oceanographic surveys. Poland joined the U.S.S.R., East Germany, Finland, and Sweden in oceanographic investigations in the Baltic Sea during 1969 and early 1970. Research included measurements of temperature, salinity, nutrient content, oxygen, hydrogen ion concentration, and alkalinity. This program, designated the Baltic Sea Year, was proposed by Sweden at the 6th Conference of Baltic Oceanographers held at Sopot.

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