This study has served as a prototype for fouling research in other 

 locations of military significance. In addition to determining the 

 macroscopic sessile fouling complex in the approaches to Chesapeake 

 Bay, experience of equal importance was gained in methods of analyz- 

 ing fouling panels and raw data, in the mechanics of introducing and 

 recovering test objects, in the design and size of test objects, in the 

 planning of introduction and removal schedules, and in the use of 

 personnel for operational work and panel analyses. 



No additional fouling research, per se, is comtemplatedfor the area; 

 however, a tentative plan to study the free living stages of the foulers 

 has been formulated. This proposed study would be carried out by 

 means of quantitative and qualitative plankton tows„ 



This Office is currently conducting fouling surveys similar to this 

 prototype study in other areas under the Inshore Survey Section of the 

 Oceanographic Survey Branch. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



ANDREWS, J. D. Fouling Organisms of Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake 

 Bay Institute , Inshore Survey Program, Interim Report 17, Refer- 

 ence 53-3. I6p. 1953. 



MALONEY, W. E. A Study of the Types, Seasons of Attachment, and 

 Growth of Fouling Organisms in the Approaches to Norfolk, Virginia, 

 U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office Technical Report 47, 40 p. May 

 1958. 



WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION. Marine Fouling and 

 its Prevention. Prepared for the U. S. Bureau of Ships, Navy Depart- 

 ment, Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute. 388 p. 1952. 



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