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Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 16, No. 2, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

James River, Seedbeds, Oyster Disease

Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 16, No. 1, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

In This Issue:

A Health Food for Plants

Silage from the Sea

Crab Meal Processing

Aquatic Food Chains

Meaningful Chemical Measurements In The Marine Environment - Transition Metals, James H. Carpenter, Robert J. Huggett

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The following comments present a critical, but not negative, point of view that seeks identification of improved approaches to "marine pollution effects" studies. The current literature has many examples of the disquiet that the authors experience in reviewing or participating in recent studies. As pointed out by Dayton (1982), in reviewing the proceedings of a symposium: The Shore Environment, "Environmental protection programs are increasingly criticized by ecologists, regulatory and management agencies, and private business as being of questionable quality and value. Because regulatory agencies and many ecologists are uncomfortable with the highly probabilistic nature of ecology, there is a tendency, …