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SECTION 9. ANCILLARY RESEARCH AND STUDY NEEDS 



There is a considerable need for knowledge which, while not in direct 

 support of a system of technical estuarine management, is a signifi- 

 cant part of the overall research and study program needed. These 

 might be considered as needs of researchers and include environmental 

 monitoring and surveillance, methodology (both laboratory and field), 

 data processing, training, and estuarine zone laboratories. 



MONITORING 



There is a v/ell recognized need for routinely monitoring the estua- 

 rine environment to complete and maintain the data base discussed 

 earlier. A continuing program of environmental surveillance supplies 

 the information needed to determine water quality conditions and the 

 effectiveness of water pollution control activities. Surveillance 

 also indicates the location, nature, and severity of pollution prob- 

 lems and is necessary to support legal and administrative actions to 

 abate pollution and other destruction of the estuarine resource. 

 All of the values of an adequate data base for planning and manaqing 

 the estuarine resource also accrue to an effective system of monito- 

 ring. Effective monitoring of marine and estuarine vi/aters reauires 

 a continuing series of synoptic measurements at strategic locations. 

 It will require an approach based upon adequate knowledge of the 

 ecology involved and an understanding of the related nhysical, chemi- 

 cal, and geological processes. 



