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Figure 6. Pacific environmental quality coastal data-acquisition cruises. 



The project is designed to take advantage of and complement the 

 following studies : 



1. The existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 

 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) survey of mercury in tunas 

 collected throughout the Pacific; 



2. The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Cal- 

 COFI), which for 20 years have been recording conditions in the waters 

 and populations offshore from Cabo San Lucas to the mouth of the 

 Columbia River. In 1972 CalCOFI will be making one of its triennial 

 intensive surveys ; 



3. The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCC- 

 WRP), a three year study of problems of waste water disposal in the 

 sea; and 



4. The NMFS Fishery Oceanography Center measurements of DDT 

 and its residues in fish and plankton on a section from Honolulu to 

 San Diego. 



