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1 MARVIN ALLUM 



2 some other abnoroialities may have been evident, only this 



3 criterion was used throughout so as to provide a workable 



4 criterion for all concerned. 



5 (Slide FG-31) 



6 Now we will review briefly the technique 



7 again with this flow diagram, which, incidentally, is in 



g Page 135 of the project report. It is also following the 



9 Page 14 of the summary that many of you have. 

 IQ Before passing from the abnormal larvae 



11 let me say that repeated attempts to rear abnormal larvae 



12 such as the ones you saw have all met with failure. No 



13 successful attempt has ever been made to rear these to 



14 juvenile or adult oysters. 



15 Now, the results of the field sample study 



16 are fully presented and discussed by Dr . Paulik in a 



17 final report to the Project and, of course, are discussed 



18 fully in the Project's final report itself. However, in 



19 the data that we are going to examine next, only those 



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20 data derived from or associated with bioassay responses 



21 not influenced by low salinityand poor test-animal stock 



22 and those associated with normal mill operations, that is 



23 aside from strike periods when the usual ranges of water 



24 quality and environmental factors prevail, are included 



25 here. The rationale for limiting the data to these is 



