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And, as is required in all management schemes, research must be 

 done which leads up to the development of alternative master 

 plans for the long term uses of estuarine and land related zones. 



ECONOMICS 



The economics of conservation and development, and the planned 

 utilization of estuarine resources must consider all aspects of 

 the ecosystem as well as human factors. Past and present tech- 

 niques have seldom defined the beneficial uses of the resource 

 adequately. Research is needed to develop techniques which permit 

 the consideration of social, economic, and aesthetic factors as 

 well as technological factors. Further development of decision 

 models which can "quantify" these factors on a design or opera- 

 tional basis is a high priority item in a list of needed research. 

 A central problem of estuarine resource management is unquestionably 

 the matter of economic evaluation and resource allocation. It is 

 ironic that even though management activity is specifically 

 designed to add to the sum total of human satisfactions and 

 benefits, it is probably the most mis-handled aspect of long 

 term resource planning. 



Estuarine Resource Evaluation 



To define the economic value of the estuaries of the country would 

 require detailed studies which, while under way, are not complete. 

 It is possible, however, to project what the loss of the 



