Knowing what level of enhanced restoration would satisfy us 
is another question. All of us would like to have something 
like the early explorers saw that Senator Mathias told us about 
this morning, but of course we can't have that. 
I think what fishery managers would like to have in lieu of 
that, though, is stability. Stable production at some lower 
level than we perhaps had in the 19th century would be, I think, 
a very acceptable alternative. 
Mr. Eichbaum: Maybe I could say just a few words on that. 
Gene. It seems to me that the Chesapeake Bay is, perhaps, the 
only experiment that we have going on in this country and maybe 
in the world where we're, at least what I think the State of 
Maryland is trying to do, is to see if it's possible to limit 
the adverse impacts of human activity on a functioning biologi¬ 
cal system so that system can survive without being completely 
managed by mankind. It seems to me that's the real test of what 
we're about. And I happen to think that we have to meet that 
challenge, and I think we're going in the right direction to do 
it in the Bay. 
One aspect that we haven't talked about that I just want to 
touch on because it's relevant to that is the mammouth effort to 
not just worry about what goes into the water, but also worry 
about what's going on on the land adjacent to the Bay. Because 
I'm convinced that we could clean up all the pipes and perhaps 
have perfect fisheries management plans, but if the development 
practices of the last 40 years continue, we will not have a 
Chesapeake Bay in the way we know or think of it, at least 
historically. 
I flew with the governors last Friday in helicopters, and 
that was quite an experience to fly from Washington, D.C. to 
Lancaster County to Elkneck to the Rappahannock, go up the 
Western Shore and down the Eastern Shore at a thousand feet in 
about six-and-a-half hours. Because what you see is that we're 
occupying the land. And we are disturbing it, and we are 
shoving it about. And we are not only moving it and the stuff 
we dump on it into the Bay, but we are destroying habitat in the 
stream, adjacent to the stream, in the wetlands, adjacent to the 
wetlands at a rate and an intensity which is absolutely astound¬ 
ing. And unless we reverse that, I don't think any of the stuff 
we've talked about matters. And the critical area, as you know, 
is designed to start doing that where we will essentially, we 
hope, in the administration insure that somewhere around 85 per¬ 
cent of the shoreline of the Bay and its tributaries remains in 
forest land and hopefully in agriculture land with best manage¬ 
ment practices really in place, both to protect water quality, 
to protect in-the-water habitat and to protect land habitat for 
all of the species which depend on that. 
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