1 DR. HECKER: The patchiness was with regard to the concept of: If 



2 you are destroying this area, are you wiping out half of the stock 



3 population or are you wiping out one 1/1000 of the stock population? 



4 DR. NEFF: You can't answer that. 



5 DR. HECKER: I think you can answer it. I think you are wiping 



6 out a much higher percentage of the stock population by wiping out a 



7 population you can't eat, the sessile, a much higher percentage, even 



8 though it only covers sessile. The concept of the stock population is 



9 going to contribute to a long-term problem. 



10 DR. COOPER: Barbara, Joe Uzman (phonetic) here several years back 



11 determined what percentage of the Georges Bank continental slope, upper 



12 continental slope was occupied by the so-called Georges Bank Canyon. I 



13 think he came up with an estimate of about 20 percent, which surprised 



14 me at the time. 



15 I sat down with a chart and looked at it and it probably was 



15 pretty close. Of the upper continental slope, 20 percent in the area of 



17 Georges Bank are occupied by submarine canyons, which is a-- 



18 DR. TEAL: Not so unique after all. 



19 DR. HECKER 



20 DR. COOPER 



21 DR. HECKER 



Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 



That was, in fact, a uniquely high percentage. 



There is a question. Now, all canyons are not 



22 considered unique canyons. We have got to subtract from that 20 



23 percent, take that into account, and then maybe not the whole canyon 



24 area. What did he consider the canyon area? I guess that's the 



25 question. From the rim down? 



26 DR. COOPER: I think everything on the chart was called the 



27 canyon, whether they were bottom gulleys or not. 



28 DR. BUTMAN: Was that lineal extent or just what actually 



29 intercepted the slope? I bet it is even more than that if you take the 



30 length of-- 



31 DR. COOPER: I'm not sure. 



32 DR. TEAL: In any case, you are all agreeing that it occupies a 



33 substantial fraction of the entire upper slope. 



34 DR. BUTMAN: If it didn't, we wouldn't need this meeting. 



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