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... Marine environmental monitoring has been successfully employed to protect public health through systematic measurement of microbial indicators of fecal pathogens in swimming and shellfish-growing areas, to validate water qualifier models, and to assess the effectiveness of pollution abatement. But despite these considerable efforts and expenditures, most environmental monitoring programs fail to provide the information needed to understand the condition of the marine environment or to assess the effects of human activity on it.
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... The committee evaluated the major policy and technical limitations of and opportunities for manne environmental monitoring based on the panel reports, other examples, relevant literature on monitoring strategies, and the collective experience of the members. The report conveys advice on what can be expected from marine environmental monitoring, how monitoring programs should be designed, and how they can supply information that would be more useful in decision making.
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... National Status and Mends Program and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Estuary Program and proposed Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program should cooperate to develop an effective national program.
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... Risk-free decision making is not possible. When well developed, applied, and used, environmental monitoring can help quantify the magnitude of uncertainty, thereby reducing but not eliminating uncertainly in decision making.
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Key Terms

  • monitoring programs
  • monitoring information
  • monitoring program
  • marine environment
  • control strategies

  • environmental quality
  • manne environmental
  • program design
  • regional monitoring
  • specific control

  • environmental managers
  • national status
  • environmental management
  • programs directed
  • water quality

  • microbial indicators
  • marine emaronmental
  • legislative mandates
  • unanswered questions
  • conveys advice

  • including scientific
  • review existing
  • corrective measures
  • emaronmental management
  • thereby reducing

  • intensive regional
  • monitoring methods
  • panel reports
  • management strategies
  • national estuary


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