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SIR JOHN GRAHAM KERR recently asked a question in the House of Commons and wrote a letter to The Times1 proposing that a committee of biologists and engineers should be instituted to inquire into the possibility of obtaining food direct from the marine plankton.
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HARDY, A. Plankton as a Source of Food. Nature 147, 695–696 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147695a0
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