OCEAN POLLUTION 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1973 



U.S. Sexate, 

 Committee on Commerce, 

 Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere, 



Washington^ B.C. 



The committee met at 10 a.m., in room 5110, Dirksen Senate Office 

 Building:, Hon. Ted Stevens presiding. 



Senator Stevens. We will call the meetinof of this committee to order. 

 This morning we have a panel of scientists from the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration. 



We are most pleased that you could be with us. My colleagues will 

 join us after meeting in the executive session here. 



Dr. Allan Hirsch. Director, marine ecosystem analysis program, 

 Office of Coastal Environment; Dr. M. Grant Gross, Oceanographic 

 Services, Office of Associate Administrator for Environmental Moni- 

 toring and Prediction ; and Dr. William F. Royce, Associate Director 

 for Resource Research, National Marine Fisheries Services. We are 

 delighted to have you here, gentlemen, to make the record we have to 

 have to proceed with the committee's business. How do you desire to 

 proceed with your statements ? 



STATEMENTS OF DR. ALLAN HIRSCH, DIRECTOR, MARINE ECOSYS- 

 TEM ANALYSIS PROGRAM, OFFICE OF COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; 

 DR. M. GRANT GROSS, OCEANOGRAPHIC SERVICES, OFFICE OF 

 ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITOR- 

 ING AND PREDICTION; AND DR. WILLIAM F. ROYCE, ASSOCIATE 

 DIRECTOR FOR RESOURCE RESEARCH, NATIONAL MARINE FISH- 

 ERIES SERVICES 



Dr. HiRSCH. We have several statem.ents, and we would like to pro- 

 ceed from left to right, if we may. 



Senator Stevens. Thank you very much. You may proceed. 



Dr. HiRSCH. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be here today to discuss 

 NOAA's New York bight marine ecosystems analysis project. 



The New York Bight is the ocean area extending from the tip of 

 Long Island to about Cape ]\Iay, N..T., and out to the edge of the Con- 

 tinental Shelf. The bight is perhaps the most complex and heavily 

 impacted coastal marine area in the United States. 



It is the ultimate repository of many of the wastes of the New York- 

 New Jersey metropolitan area. It receives those wastes from river 

 inflows — such as those of the Hudson and East Rivers, Raritan River, 

 and from direct discharges. It receives them from barges which dump 

 the area's wastes at sea. 



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