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the inland waterways make up the re- mainder, accounting for fully 99 per- cent of U.S. ? ag, Jones Act assets.

Growing signi? cantly since the 1990’s, the OSV sector has provided employment to thousands of people, including graduates of the six SMAs and the federal academy at Kings

Point. Beyond this, of the 1.5 million jobs provided by the greater marine industry, over 400,000 are located in the Gulf of Mexico region alone, with a large portion of those dedicated to the support of the offshore industry.

It is therefore time to reconsider the mission and method of the nation’s maritime education and training pro- grams and shift focus to an area of the industry that continues to grow and evolve more quickly than the sectors that have traditionally been the focus of the U.S. SMA’s. And, while the fo- cus of domestic maritime training is evolving to match changing demands – robust brown water programs have emerged at the Massachusetts Mari-

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