451-p CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH AND PROTECTION U. VA. JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE AUG 1.3 1992 SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT OF THE 0632A COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, GREAT LAKES OF THE COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION APRIL 23, 1992 [No. 123] (Committee on Science, Space, and Technology) Serial No. 102-75 (Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries) Printed for the use of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 56-344 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1992 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California, Chairman JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas TIM ROEMER, Indiana ROBERT E. "BUD" CRAMER, Alabama DICK SWETT, New Hampshire MICHAEL J. KOPETSKI, Oregon JOAN KELLY HORN, Missouri ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania* SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT, New York DON RITTER, Pennsylvania CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland TOM CAMPBELL, California JOHN J. RHODES III, Arizona JOE BARTON, Texas DICK ZIMMER, New Jersey COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina, Chairman GERRY E. STUDDS, Massachusetts W.J. (BILLY) TAUZIN, Louisiana CHARLES E. BENNETT, Florida GEORGE J. HOCHBRUECKNER, New York FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey GREG LAUGHLIN, Texas NITA M. LOWEY, New York JOLENE UNSOELD, Washington GENE TAYLOR, Mississippi GLENN M. ANDERSON, California JACK REED, Rhode Island WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, Louisiana ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American Samoa H. MARTIN LANCASTER, North Carolina LUCIEN E. BLACKWELL, Pennsylvania ROBERT W. DAVIS, Michigan NORMAN F. LENT, New York HERBERT H. BATEMAN, Virginia HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina CURT WELDON, Pennsylvania WALLY HERGER, California JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma PORTER J. GOSS, Florida ARTHUR RAVENEL, JR., South Carolina SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama WAYNE T. GILCHREST, Maryland JOHN T. DOOLITTLE, California RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM, California EDMUND B. WELCH, Chief Counsel MARY J. KITSOS, Chief Clerk GEORGE D. PENCE, Minority Staff Director/Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, GREAT LAKES AND THE OUTER CONTINENTAL CONTENTS Dr. Deborah Santavy, research microbiologist, U.S. Environmental Pro- tection Agency, Gulf Breeze Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, FL; Dr. James Harold Hudson, regional biologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Key Largo, FL; R. Tucker Scully, Director, Office of Oceans, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC; Walter C. Jaap, Associate Research Scientist, Florida Marine Research Institute, Flori- da Department of Natural Resources, St. Petersburg, FL Dr. Bruce R. Rosendahl, dean of the Rosenstiel School of Marine Science and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami; Dr. James W. Porter, department of zoology, University of Georgia; Dr. John C. Ogden, direc- tor, Florida Institute of Oceanography, and Dr. Robert I. Wicklund, director, Caribbean Marine Research Center, Vero Beach, FL.. Dr. Rodney M. Fujita, staff scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; Dr. Donald M. Axelrad, director of marine conservation, the Nature Con- servancy, and Dr. Archie Carr III, director, Caribbean Program, Wild- (V) |