Although the Earth has a vast abundance of water, in general, aside for transportation, very little has been utilized for most basic human needs. The animal population has traditionally been used in the most primitive manner with almost no thought to a sustained ecology and the potentials here are rapidly being exhausted and the vegetable potential has been used at most in a very marginal manner. Most plants used in human nourishment have almost no tolerance for salt water although there are many plants that grow in the sea. The advances in genetic engineering provide a great potential for modifying those plants now flourishing in a salt water environment to maximize their food potential. Since sunlight is the basic necessity for agriculture along with water and fertilizer, and most of the sunlight falls on the seas, a tremendous potential for food and fiber production is being neglected by not exploring the possibilities of the oceans with new genetic techniques. Incidentally, the animal production of the oceans could be enhanced by more intensive agricultural sea growth. At the moment most of the fertilizer washed off land agriculture is utilized by unuseful or deleterious microscopic growth whereas innovative useful plants could utilize this runoff for more sensible human use.

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