IV-347 

 SUMMARY 



The anticipated continuing increase in population and industrial 

 development in the estuarine zone will increase the strong pressures 

 presently existing on the estuarine biophysical environment. The 

 economic pressures will lead as coastal resources are exploited in 

 more ways and more intensively, and as commercial exploitation of 

 the deep ocean makes itself felt through use of the estuarine 

 zone as a staging area. 



As the economic pressures increase, more and more estuarine areas 

 will be preempted for commercial purposes, to the detriment of the 

 intrinsic social value of the estuarine zone. The anticipated 

 great increase in recreational need will tend to follow economic 

 development; therefore, recreational use may very well be relegated 

 to small areas useless for other purposes unless effective overall 

 management of the entire resource can be established and maintained. 



The great projected increases in waste discharges from all sources 

 may do far more than usurp other uses -- these wastes can destroy 

 part of the environment itself and thereby damage the very eco- 

 system of which man is an integral part and from which his suste- 

 nance comes. 



