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(5) Socioeconomic factors, taken to include planning, 

 econ»mics, law, social and demographic factors and 

 trends, resource evaluation and allocation, and the role 

 of technical research and study in supporting a com- 

 prehensive management plan; and 



(6) Ancillary research and study needs, taken to 

 include environmental monitoring, methodology (both 

 laboratory and field techniques), data processing, 

 training needs, and estuarine zone laboratories. 



Bearing in mind that each of these categories overlaps the others to 

 a greater or lesser extent and that no one of them is truly meaning- 

 ful in the absence of consideration of all the others, knowledge de- 

 veloped in any one of them must be integrated with the others to 

 develop the broad understanding of the estuarine zone necessary to 

 implement a useful management program. The Sections that follow, 

 '4 through 9, will discuss each of these categories in greater detail 

 and present a relevant program of study and investigation. 



