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institutions, and State and local qovernments who will actually do 

 the research suggested here. In order to take direct advantage of 

 this vast reservoir of knowledge and experience throughout the coun- 

 try, each region of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administra- 

 tion was instructed to contact individuals and institutions in its 

 vicinity who are knowledgeable and were interested in supplying 

 infonnation to the National Estuarine Pollution Study. The response 

 to this call for information was generous and provided an extremely 

 valuable and diversified array of research needs. This qrouo also 

 suDplied many valuable concents towards establishing a system of 

 management of research. 



In order to sample the thinking of the many organizations of learned 

 men, letters were written to 15 selected professional societies and 

 organizations requesting their official ooinions on research needs. 

 M This group was selected as being representative of those societies 

 -whose memberships are closely concerned with the problems of estua- 

 rine water pollution and its abatement. A more comorehensive list 

 would have introduced considerable redundancy because of the many 

 other sources of infonnation used. The oraanizations contacted were: 



(1) Atlantic Estuarine Research Society 



(2) The American Fisheries Society 



(3) American Society of Ichthyoloqists and Heroetologists 



(4) American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 



