Dr. Barber: Mary Barber, from NOAA. The Chesapeake Bay 
efforts that have gone on are going to be used as a model across 
the Nation now for investigating other estuaries and dealing 
with the management problems there. On the panel we've got a 
wide range of perspectives and backgrounds, and I would like you 
all to give me some views about it from your perspectives and 
backgrounds. What are the successes and failures of the 
Chesapeake Bay efforts? What might you say to other areas 
across the country that are developing plans, et cetera? What 
might you say to them about using a model of the Chesapeake Bay? 
Dr. D'Elia: Why don't we start down at that end and give 
these people a little relief here? 
Dr. Malone: I feel one of the biggest successes, and I 
speak as a relative newcomer in this whole business of the Bay, 
one of the biggest successes of the Chesapeake Bay Program per 
se has been better definition and definition that's good enough 
to ask the perfect questions to study the environmental problems 
that are facing the Bay. 
And I think they have forced the various states to face up 
to the fact that we've got to work together in order to solve 
some of the problems that exist. So a very brief answer to your 
question is that I think we are in a position to define some of 
the problems. We are in a position and some of the other people 
on the panel have stated this to begin to move towards at least 
some short-term solutions without putting into massive efforts. 
For example, I believe, there have been statements as some 
of you know, to put a tremendous amount of money into eliminat¬ 
ing all of the point and non-point pollutant inputs into the 
Bay, without understanding especially, the inputs in terms of 
the nutrients what the impact of that would be. 
We are in a position, I think, now to go out and dovetail a 
meaningful program with research projects that deal with how to 
relate to various things or how to monitor them in a cause-and- 
effect fashion. And the groundwork has been laid for that. 
Dr. Sanders: Again, as Tom said, I come into this fairly 
late too. But I think that one of the biggest successes that I 
see, both inside and outside the Bay area in the late seventies, 
and also as a scientist inside the Bay in 1980, one of the big¬ 
gest successes is probably the cooperation between both regional 
managers and also regional scientists. I think that a program 
this large requires that these different groups coordinate with 
one another. And I think that this will continue to be a very 
valuable resource for this region for some time to come. 
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