agency, concerned with the survival of the fish, legitimately, as well as populations of 
fish, legitimately, and the use of fish, legitimately. But there's another implication—what 
happens to other animal species besides fish? 
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Questions: Well, in terms of the shellfish industry, if it is correct that a large 
number or percent of lobsters are gathered from the Harbor's and that the Harbor's mean 
PCB level is greater than allowed by standards, why haven't they closed their lobster 
industry? 
L. Bridges: The mean PCB level—the lobster industry in New Bedford Harbor 
has been closed since 1979. 
Question: How about Boston Harbor? 
L. Bridges: When I was talking about PCB levels in lobsters just a few minutes 
ago, all of my comments referred to New Bedford Harbor, not Boston Harbor. We have no 
data on Boston Harbor on PCB levels. We're attempting to get some now. 
Question: Doesn't the Department of Health concern itself with these things? 
L. Bridges: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health closed New 
Bedford Harbor to all kinds of fishing, an emergency closing. 
G. Wallace: I think you're asking about Boston Harbor, concerns about Boston 
Harbor. 
Question: Yes. 
G. Wallace: Yes. There are concerns, and analyses of PCBs are going to be 
done in the immediate future. But it's been a long time coming. 
B. Brown: I think that we should probably conclude now. I want to underscore 
how little we know in the area. When I started working on this workshop today, I thought I 
was going to have a lot of conflicts. I thought I might have ten or fifteen who would be 
speaking and, for example, six or seven who know about the sewage management 
concerns, and many who know about biology and fisheries in Boston Harbor and 
Massachusetts Bay. 
It turns out that we do not have the data like that available for Narragansett 
Bay, Long Island Sound, the Chesapeake Bay, or Delaware Bay. We don't have the volume 
of knowledge that they have and the literature that has been generated. Most of the 
available literature for Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay is in the grey literature, not 
in referred journals. 
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