1 other cases, you are filtering out of the water and then passing and 



2 excreting stuff right away. 



3 I am familiar with it in the mollusks but I haven't seen anything 



4 in the corals and gorgonians to suggest that just because it is a filter 



5 feeding strategy, that they, in fact, are pollutant concentrators. That 



6 is why I raise-- 



7 DR. NEFF: I don't think there is any solid evidence. 



8 DR. RAY: That's why I was wondering what the background of that 



9 statement was. 



10 DR. TEAL: The idea was not entirely that they were concentrating 



11 within their bodies, in any case, but that it was a way of taking it out 



12 of the water, fine particles out of the water, and then depositing them 



13 rather than accumulating them. 



14 DR. RAY: That's true with mollusks. I am not sure with some 



15 others. 



16 DR. TEAL: In any case, the hypothesis was not just that they were 



17 concentrating within their bodies. 



18 DR. NEFF: There is one small point I always get annoyed about, 



19 but the word "pollutant" has a very specific meaning and it is not 



20 correct in this context. A pollutant is a contaminant that is causing 



21 biological impact. 



22 Whereas, what we are talking about is contaminants. We don't know 



23 that there is a biological impact there yet. It is a conclusionary word 



24 as opposed to a functional word, so it is really "contaminant" 



25 concentrations. That makes it consistent with the previous thing, too. 



26 It sounds picky, but people pick up on words like "pollutants." 



27 DR. TEAL: It's important. 



28 DR. MACIOLEK: Barbara, perhaps we need a line item there under 



29 biological characteristics to reflect different species' composition. 



30 You mention with the epifauna that there were species in the 



31 canyons that you did not see on the slope, so you get different species 



32 on the canyons as compared to the slope. 



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