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Environmental Quality Monitoring Program: An Initial Plan. Gulf of Maine council on the Marine Environment. June 1991. 40 pp.

To understand and manage the impact of stresses on the health of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem requires accurate understanding of the nature, scale, and impact of environmental perturbations in the Gulf. As a step toward generating the requisite information, the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment established a tightly focused and pragmatic environmental quality monitoring plan for the Gulf of Maine, presented in this resource. The monitoring plan was based on following mission statement provided by the Council: in support of the Council’s goals, it is the mission of the Gulf of Maine marine environmental quality Monitoring Program to provide environmental and resource managers with information to support sustainable use of the Gulf, and allow assessment and management of risk to public and environmental health from current and potential threats. This resource documents this plan by providing information on monitoring methods, monitoring guidelines, databases, transfers, the structure of the program, and the processes for implementation.

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