Dr. L.E. Cronin: Well, I've very much enjoyed every bit 
of this seminar all day. I'd like to ask you one question. As 
I recall the purpose of the Chesapeake Bay Program, the 
statement and committed purpose of all of the participants at 
the present time is something like this, and maybe you can make 
it more precise: 
"Restore the biological health, productivity and useful 
resources in the Chesapeake Bay system." Is that approximately 
right? 
We've talked a lot about fishery resources, but I'm 
particularly interested in what this panel means by biological 
health of the Chesapeake Bay system, since that's our first 
target. We've said things related to it, but I'm not sure our 
definition is your definition. I'd appreciate a comment. 
Dr. D'Elia: That could keep us going quite a while. 
Dr. Morris: I think, Gene, in terms of the discussion it 
would have to be along the lines that we talked about the other 
day at the meeting you were at. But for the people who weren't 
there, basically it seems to me that the world that we're in 
now, the biological health has to be related to the uses of the 
Bay which we define as the ones we want to protect and are 
willing to put the resources ... energy, dollars, and political 
will ... behind to protect. 
So the Bay is being used for a number of different things, 
all of which society agrees or many of which society agrees are 
appropriate and as many of the speakers mentioned today, they 
conflict. 
So part of the problem is to define those uses of the Bay 
which society wants to protect, and it's primarily implied in 
the legal requirements that we have to protect the Bay, and meet 
the habitat, water quality, and other requirements necessary to 
meet those uses. I see it as a mixture with one not where 
society defines the priority, and then we can protect those 
things and the water quality that we design, the hydrology would 
be designed, and the uses would be designed to reflect what 
society wants the Bay to become. 
Dr. Houde: I might be a little more specific. It's hard 
to say. Gene, just what we'd be satisfied with with regard to 
fishery resources. But no one today has said much about the 
specific technologies we now have at hand to possibly put a big 
bandage on the Bay. It is possible to raise millions of striped 
bass, for example. Costs are formidable and there are different 
opinions about using this method to restore fish to the Bay to 
jump over the recruitment bottleneck that seems to be in the way 
for the last 15 years. 
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