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• Main Authors: National Marine, Fisheries Service, Woods Hole
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.175.693; http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/pdfs/tmfnec48.pdf

continued optimum utilization of living resourtes for the benefit of the Nation, " the Northeast Fisheries Center (NEFC) is responsible for planning, developing, and managing multidisciplinary programs of basic and applied research to: (1) better understand the living marine resources (including marine mammals) of the Northwest Atlantic, and the environmental quality essential for their existence and continued productivity; and (2) describe and provide to management, industry,and the public, options for the utilization and conservation of living marine resources and mainte~ance of environmental quality which are consistent with national and regional goals and needs, and with international commitments. The timely need for such information by decision makers ·often precludes publication in formal journals. The NOAA Technical. Memopandwn NMFS-F/NEC series provides a relatively quick and highly visible outlet for documents prepared by NEFC authors, or similar material prepared by others for NEFC purposes, where formal review and editorial processing are not appropriate or feasible.