美國聯合海洋委員會聯合主席3月29日在眾議院委員備詢時表示，美國的海洋政策至今仍然搖擺不定，使整個國家無法解決有關海洋及海岸地區所面臨的各種環境問題。
已退休的海軍上將瓦特金（Admiral James Watkins）及其夥伴，也是聯合主席之一的潘尼達（Leon Panetta）亦表示他們對立法者與布希當局無視於2003年與2004年二屆國家委員會所提的建議而感到相當挫折。
而由潘尼達所領導的「皮優海洋委員會」（Pew Oceans Commission）以及瓦特金所領導的「美國海洋政策委員會」對於海洋的現狀得出了相似的結論，同時也提出超過240個聯合建議，以求改善國家毫無規劃的海洋政策。
U.S. oceans policy remains adrift, leaving the nation unable to address the myriad of environmental problems facing its oceans and coastal areas, the co-chairs of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative told a House panel Thursday.
Retired Admiral James Watkins and fellow co-chair Leon Panetta expressed frustration that lawmakers and the Bush administration have largely ignored the recommendations outlined by two national commissions in 2003 and 2004.
The reports issued by the Pew Oceans Commission, chaired by Panetta, and the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, chaired by Watkins, came to similar conclusions about the state of the oceans and outlined more than 240 combined recommendations to reform the nation's haphazard oceans policy.
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