This collection of speeches, presented as the 1974 Marine Occupations Conference in South Portland, Maine, provides an overview of information regarding availability and kinds of careers in, as well as the educational requirements for, marine occupations. Also reviewed are the problems of developing marine resources, such as those involving location of new fisheries, pollution of established fishing areas, conflicts of harvesting by fishermen using different kinds of gear, economic problems in developing new industry, aquaculture, marketing of seafoods. The occupations of naval architecture, modern fishing gear design, and ocean engineering are described in detail. (CS)