and there has been some emphasis on cause-and-effect relation¬ 
ships and the need for that kind of data. I'd like to find out, 
though, what is the role of the Federal and state agencies in 
terms of more practical solutions to various problems? I might 
use the example of the use of emergent vegetation in small 
settling ponds to control non-point source base water runoff 
from large housing developments. Those type of solutions, which 
do require scientific research, but are not what you would call 
more along the lines of pure science. 
Mr. Eichbaum: That's a good question. It's kind of that 
interface between research and application, and it is an issue 
which frequently we tend to rely on the private sector and entre¬ 
preneurship to try and begin to fill gaps, or engineering firms. 
We do have some efforts, particularly in the sewage area and 
in the storm water management area where we've actually put 
money into the State budget to fund the development of tech¬ 
nology to actually apply in the field. The State of Maryland 
reports annually on what we're doing in the Bay. And, you know, 
thumbnail sketches of those programs would be in that Annual 
Report. And anybody could follow up with in more detail with a 
particular agency. 
Dr. D'Elia: More questions? 
Question: I have one question with regards to the institu¬ 
tional framework necessary for coordination of fisheries manage¬ 
ment within the Chesapeake Bay or between any two jurisdictions. 
I think it's in place right now if it were fully exploited. 
That is, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 
(ASMFC), which was referred to earlier by Mr. Martin. There is 
a section in that Commission called the Chesapeake Bay Section, 
which does include Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. 
The interaction between the fishery biologists, the research 
community within the university systems of the individual states 
could very easily be worked into that Section to coordinate work 
and to bring together or merge the habitat quality, water qual¬ 
ity and fishery management questions. 
I don't disagree with the need for an institutional forum, 
but I think we already have a basis that can be built upon in 
the ASMFC. The bottom line, however, is that the proof of the 
pudding is bringing it home and enacting it in various provi¬ 
sions so far within the interstate fisheries management pro¬ 
gram. That is once the Commission has agreed to something away 
from home and you come back to your individual jurisdictions and 
bring it into play, such as striped bass regulations, which are 
not uniform at this point in time, and there has not been, after 
1981, passage of a plan of uniform regulations put into effect 
within 2 months or 6 months when the opportunity, however, 
existed. 
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