Managing Troubled Waters The Role of Marine Environmental Monitoring (1990) / Chapter Skim
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5 Conclusions and Recommendations
5 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 90-96
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compared with annual marine pollution abatement expenditures. Although monitoring practices have advanced, marine environmental monitoring programs are consistently hampered by poor design, inadequate resources (personnel and funds)
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Nor are many marine environmental monitoring programs effectively coordinated and related to research programs that address marine environmental quality. Monitoring activities need to be implemented in concert with other technical approaches in order to maximize the usefulness of information they provide for management decisions.
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Program is inadequate to establish patterns and trends in the quality of the nation's coastal ocean and estuaries or to determine the effectiveness of environmental policies and regulations. · Most resources spent on marine environmental monitoring are for monitoring compliance with specific permit conditions.
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· Adequate legislative mandates to undertake a national program such as the one recommended here exist, but they have not been implemented eRectively. To ensure the necessary coordination for an effective interagency program, the administration and Congress should critically review existing coordination arrangements under the Water Quality Act of 1987, Title II of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972,
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· Effective marine environmental monitoring programs must have the following features: clearly defined goals and objectives; a technical design that is based on an understanding of system linkages and processes' is directed at testable questions and hypotheses, and is subjected to peer review; methods that employ statistically valid observations and predictive models; and the means to translate data into information products tailored to the needs of their users, including decision makers and the public.
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Adequate resources should be allocated to data analysis and integration as well as to data collection.
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