Dr. E. J. Noga 



College of Veterinary Medicine 

 North Carolina State University 

 Raleigh, NC 27606 



Dr. J. B. Pearce 

 NOAA/NMFS/NEFC 

 Woods Hole Laboratory 

 Woods Hole, MA 02543 



Ms . J . Rugg 

 NOAA/NMFS/NEFC 

 Sandy Hook Laboratory 

 P.O. Box 4 28 

 Highlands, NJ 07732 



Mr. R. Runyon 



New Jersey Department of 



Environmental Protection 



Box CN 029 



Trenton, NJ 08625 



Mr. J. Tiedemann 



New Jersey Sea Grant Extension Service 



Toms River, NJ 08757 



Mr. R. R. Young 

 Waste Management Institute 

 State University of New York 

 Stony Brook, NY 11794 



9 . 2 Appendix 2. EPA and NOAA Roles and Responsibilities 



The New York Bight is an ocean area extending over 100 miles 

 into the Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the Hudson River 

 Estuary to the limit of the Continental Shelf. Roughly 240 miles 

 of sandy shoreline from Cape May, New Jersey to Montauk Point, 

 Long Island from its landside border. The Bight is a resource of 

 great public importance. It provides water-based recreation to a 

 resident population of over 20 million people. The Bight and its 

 adjoining estuaries support an extensive commercial and 

 recreational fishery. It is also the site of a major world 

 shipping port. It has also become a repository for an outpouring 

 of wastes from a vast metropolitan area which is impacting or 

 jeopardizing many of these water-based uses. 



Pollution has resulted in various water use impairments in 

 the New York Bight. Some of these impacts have been direct and 

 immediate, such as the beach closures resulting from wash-up of 

 floating refuse and noxious waste materials that have become 

 particularly troublesome in recent years, or the closure of 

 shellfish beds as a result of bacterial contamination. In 

 addition to such obvious problems, there is a deeper concern that 

 the Bight's overall capacity to function as a healthy, productive 



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