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SECTION 13. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 



The purpose of this Chapter is to identify the estuarine problems 

 and areas requiring further research and study. The discussion 

 represents a synthesized consensus of the leading estuarine scien- 

 tists, engineers, planners, and economists in various universities, 

 organizations and Federal, State, and local government agencies; 

 fifteen professional organizations in the forefront of estuarine 

 research; the public, as determined in thirty public meetings; 

 several special studies; the Office of Research and Development of 

 the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration; and the combined 

 Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences and the 

 Committee on Ocean Engineering of the National Academy of Engineering, 



A great deal of technical and socioeconomic knowledge is necessary 

 to support a comprehensive program of estuarine management. This 

 knowledge must be supplied through multidisciplinary efforts. The 

 knowledge thus developed must include: (1) knowledge and understan- 

 ding of the biological, physical, and chemical factors of the estua- 

 rine zone, (2) knowledge of the institutional framework governing 

 each portion of the estuarine zone, (3) knowledge of the demographic, 

 social, and economic factors and their trends, (4) establishment of 

 goals and uses so that future studies can be relevantly oriented, 

 and (5) an augmentation and synthesis of the previous four adequate 

 to enhance estuarine management. 



