1 stress that stayed in these canyons, those areas would be repopulated 



2 very quickly. 



3 DR. GRASSLE: The tricky part is tile fish recruitment. 



4 DR. COOPER: The tile fish is probably the only species that I'm 



5 aware of out there that is highly endemic to a given grotto area and 



6 very likely would not move out of the area, regardless. 



7 DR. AURAND: What about commercial fisheries? What words did you 



8 use? I made it for operational discharges with a 500 meter set-back, it 



9 is unlikely that there would be any measurable effects on-- 



10 DR. COOPER: Commercial species in the heads of submarine canyons. 



11 DR. HECKER: With the exception of tile fish or including tile 



12 fish? 



13 MS. HUGHES: Do you mean of exploitable size? 



14 DR. COOPER: I don't think there would be any effects from 



15 operational discharges. I don't mean a spill. We just finished 



16 discussing that. My comment is on the benthic-oriented population as it 



17 exists in that point in time. 



18 DR. AURAND 



19 DR. COOPER 



20 DR. AURAND 



Do you want "benthic-oriented" added? 



I'm sorry. I was listening to two people. 



Did you want "benthic-oriented commercial species" or 



21 just "commercial species"? 



22 DR. HECKER: Existing benthic-oriented commercial species? 



23 DR. COOPER: It is not going to have any measurable effects on the 



24 commercial species--on the benthic oriented commercial species. 



25 DR. BUTMAN: Do you want to say adult stocks of the commercial 



26 species? We just talked about the recruitment issue. 



27 DR. KRAEUTER: You can't just say adult. 



28 DR. AURAND: Whatever, again, we are separating spills from 



29 discharges. 



30 MS. HUGHES: Are you talking about drilling muds and cuttings or 



31 are you talking about produced water? Do you want to talk about the 



32 hydrocarbon concentration? 



33 DR. AURAND: We haven't talked about produced waters, yet. 



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