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Jerry M. Neff, Program Manager, Nancy Maciolek-Blake and 3ames A. Blake from 

 Battelle New England Marine Research Laboratory, and ]. Frederick Grassle and Howard 

 L. Sanders from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. George R. Hampson (W.H.O.I.) is 

 First Scientist on sampling cruises and Rose Petrecca (W.H.O.I.) is Cruise Coordinator. 



8. LITERATURE CITED 



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Mr. D' Amours. Thank you very much, Mr. Danenberger. I also 

 appreciate your very apt summary of your testimony. 



I have a few questions I would like to ask. 



I will start with Mr. Beller — since he spoke first. 



You specify in your testimony that just about everybody involved 

 with the task force had components they would like to have seen in 

 the monitoring program that were not present because of "con- 

 straints" — your word — as well as goals. What constraints do you 

 think prevented certain components from being included in the 

 monitoring program? 



Mr. Beller. The constraints are those that govern many of our 

 programs. When the monitoring subcommittee first met, in Woods 

 Hole, in February of 1980, they — the subcommittee — tried to put 

 together all the desires of the scientists and other participants, sort 

 of a wish list, which, if we had unlimited funds, we could carry out. 



As we went further down the road, we found the constraints 

 were two: one, financial, and two, applicability. 



Two things struck me as being things that were left out. One was 

 the desire to do research in the water column, of the organisms in 

 the water column. It was felt that we could probably get better re- 

 sults if we looked at the benthic infauna which essentially don't 

 move, we could count them easier, it would be cheaper to count 



