1 communities. Assuming that that form of pollution carried through and 



2 was washed through this area very fast, you may or may not have some 



3 short-term impact, but I suspect that those canyon heads, in terms of 



4 tile fish, lobsters, hakes and so forth, will probably bounce back 



5 fairly fast, in a matter of 2, 3 or 4 years. 



6 DR. NEFF: Again, the critical question is: How the heck do you 



7 get the oil down there? I don't think you can get enough down there 



8 even under the worst scenario. 



9 DR. TEAL: That's for this afternoon's discussion, really. I have 



10 an idea for a worst case that is different. 



11 (Simultaneous discussion.) 



12 DR. AURAND: Again, we can talk about some of the discussion that 



13 went on on Monday at the Fisheries Workshop, because this same topic 



14 came up in terms of modeling oil spills. There was little conclusion 



15 there of the mechanism. 



16 MR. LANE: Formation waters or something you wanted to talk about, 



17 also? 



18 DR. COOPER: I'll hold my peace for the moment. 



19 DR. HECKER: Dick, here is a question for you, largely. Are the 



20 differences at different life stages and do we have to be worried about 



21 seasonal --I mean, what seasonal worries should we have with regard to 



22 discharges? 



23 This goes with regard to, I think, the water column transfer, 



24 also, with regard to the water column transfer and with regard to the 



25 mobile fauna. 



26 DR. COOPER: I would say that probably the worst time of the year 



27 for a discharge or any physical or chemical impact on these canyon 



28 environs would be the wintertime. In the summertime, a number of these 



29 species have moved out up on the Georges Bank and towards the coast. 



30 DR. HECKER: Where are the concentrations of the materials the 



31 highest, or have they not been measured? 



32 DR. COOPER: I don't know. The only time anybody has really 



33 studied them has been in July, August, and September. I don't know 



34 anything about the wintertime positions out there. 



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