On the other hand, there is the view expressed by an in¬ 
dustry managers that although you don't have all of the informa¬ 
tion that you need to make the best management decisions, you 
must 
.-9° ahead and start making some wild guesses based on 
the information you have. Make your best possible esti¬ 
mates, because if you don't make those estimates, the mana¬ 
gers and the decision-makers are going to ignore you and go 
ahead and decide anyway, in the absence of any data (Adams, 
1982). 
So the question becomes, how do we chart a course through 
these troubled waters to find agreement? From the perspective 
to those concerned with the role of scientific information in 
the decision-making and management processes, we should begin by 
developing a set of management goals which are agreed to by 
managers, scientists, politicians, and the public. From this 
set of goals, it should then be possible to devise scientific 
questions which become the basis for a research program designed 
to produce information and recommendations that support the 
management goals or lead to their modification to better meet 
the environmental needs of this estuarine ecosystem. Schemati¬ 
cally, the approach is as follows: 
RECOMMENDATIONS <-r 
i 
MANAGEMENT GOALS 
1 
SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS 
i 
RESEARCH PROGRAM DESIGN 
i 
DATA 
i 
CONCLUSIONS-‘ 
From the earlier discussion, it is obvious that neither the 
development of the management goals nor the design of the 
research program should become the exclusive domain of either 
scientists or managers. Rather, a Management Policy Committee 
should be created which has representation from both groups as 
well as from relevant industries and the public. Since research 
design requires specialized technical knowledge, a Technical 
Advisory Committee should be formed which consists of a multidis¬ 
ciplinary set of scientists from management agencies (Federal, 
state, and regional), research institutions, industry, and 
public oragnizations. Both of these committees should have 
representation from each of the categories of Bay Area interest 
groups: 
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