I guess one of the biggest disappointments that I had is 
that as we enter this new phase in Bay program management 
issues, that I don't believe that we're moving well enough to 
begin to put together the geochemical linkages with biological 
interactions that we see within both fluctuations of stock and 
also in basic productivity assessments. 
I think that there are still a number of questions and a 
number of areas that need to filled in how these organisms are 
interacting with their environment. And I don't see that we're 
moving in that direction. 
Dr. Houde: I've been impressed with the marshalling of 
political and public support that I've seen since I've come into 
the Chesapeake Region. I think that this could be held up as a 
model to other people. I suspect that within the next 5 years 
we will obtain the answers to some of the problems that we've 
talked about today. I think Jay Taft alluded to needing to do 
more modeling and to use some of the newer remote sensing tech¬ 
niques . 
The nutrient problem I think is in everybody's mind. Some 
of Bennett's assertions relative to phosphorus removal not 
having much effect, I think, ought to impress us. We are 
beginning to get some insights into the problems here in the 
Chesapeake Bay. 
As far as fisheries management, which I've been closer to, I 
wouldn't say that I'm completely disappointed. I think there is 
a lot of potential to do some very good management in the Bay 
that we have not accomplished at present. We've talked about 
the ways it might be done in the last minutes. 
Dr. Seliger: Well, I'm not a newcomer to the Bay. I've 
been institutionalized for a long time in the Bay. I've been 
institutionalized ever since the Rhode River Consortium, the 
Chesapeake Bay Consortium, ad nauseam . I think, however, that 
we have the opportunity to do something since we have the public 
support and the financial support, and I agree completely with 
Tom Malone that we have a much better idea of what to do and how 
possibly to relate some of the cause-and-effect relationships to 
the monitoring program that we didn't have before. 
And I think in a sense when one publishes every year in the 
professional journals observations about the Bay that one didn't 
know before and that one hasn't been able to predict, then one 
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