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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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1. CONCLUSIONS . 1 



2. RECOMMENDATIONS 2 



3. BACKGROUND 3 



<f. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM... 5 



5. PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION 6 



6. RESULTS FOR THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BENTHIC INFAUNA 



MONITORING PROGRAM 10 



6.1 Sediments.................................................................................... 10 



6.2 Taxonomy.................................................................................... 11 



6.3 Abundance and Diversity.............................................................. 1 1 



6.4 Population Patterns: Regional Stations............;............................ 11 



6.3 Population Patterns: Site-Specific Stations................................... 14 



6.6 Bottom Still Photographs.............................................................. 15 



7. KEY PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM 15 



8. LITERATURE CITED 16 



LIST OF FIGURES 



Figure 1. Proposed No. Atlantic Lease Offering (February, 1984) ......... . 4 



Figure 2. Long-Term Regional Stations............................................................. 7 



Figure 3. Site-Specific Stations ......... ...... 9 



Figure 4. Major Clusters of Summed Regional Stations cis Delimited by NESS 



at 200 Individuals and Flexible Sorting ...... ... .... 13 



