Coral Reef Ecosystems Research and Protection: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, April 23, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 192 pages |
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