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just being by the water. Aesthetic ^joyment includes the pleasure 

 of watching persons and animals living in their environment of 

 the moment as well as the natural beauty of the estuary itself. 

 We would lose the type habitat required as an example of the 

 estuarine ecosystem for the education of our students as well as 

 the opportunity to delve into the mysteries of life in this area 

 through research. We would lose the example of the zone where 

 it is most likely that animals left the sea to roam the land. 



The estuaries are valuable, not only for their biological resources, 

 for recreation, commercial harvesting of fish and shellfish, educa- 

 tion, and research, but also as open spaces and opportunities for 

 further development such as placing still another road, a marina, 

 housing, plant sites, highways, or anything for which raw land is 

 required, or for siting power plants or any other facility for 

 which large amounts of cooling waters are required. The current 

 trend is to convert the natural resource of the estuary to some 

 other use with the elimination of all other options or alternative 

 uses. 



Research and study then is needed in techniques of measuring 

 estuarine utility which could result in added productivity of the 

 national econoiriy by providing standards to optimize economic 

 consequences of estuarine resource activities. Additionally, or 

 alternatively, since it is likely that the development of 



