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Mitigation banking for wetlands: questionable investment or ‘money-in-the-bank’?; Management of Atlantic coast marine fish habitat: a workshop for habitat managers; Fisheries and pollution conference: no easy answers about how pollution impacts marine fish populations; Legislative update: Clean Water Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Magnuson Act, and EPA appropriations; Three Atlantic estuaries added to National Estuary Program: Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey estuaries to be protected under cooperative program; Using biomarkers to detect marine contamination; Chesapeake Bay continues to improve: record year for juvenile striped bass, bay grasses still rebounding; Fishing closure and fish kills plague the troubled Neuse River:…

Evaluation of multiple use issues and habitat threats affecting Northeast living marine resources; The Coastal Zone Management Act: controlling coastal nonpoint pollution; Clean Water Act reauthorization passes the House; Voting record for Representatives of Atlantic coast states – H.R. 961; Congressionally mandated wetlands study completed; Florida adopts takings legislation

Pollution effects on marine fish populations: National Marine Fisheries Service report reviews scientific literature on the effects of pollution on striped bass, menhaden and winter flounder populations; Delaware habitat workshops fuel new alliances; Environmental impacts of powerboats: the EPA seeks to reduce hydrocarbon emissions while scientists explore other vessel impacts; Dredging plan released: environmentalists disappointed with unbalanced approach; Clean Water Act reauthorization; NMFS strengthens national Habitat Program; F.I.S.H. initiates flights for fishermen

Property rights and cost/benefit analysis: the way Congress handles these issues may have far-reaching implications for the environment, public health, civil rights, and the economy; Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act of 1995: concerns about gutting worker safety, public health and environmental laws; PCBs lethal to oyster larvae; EPA dioxin reassessment confirms already bad reputation

EPA seeks public comments on contaminated sediment management strategy and dioxin reassessment; Clean Water Act reauthorization; “For wetlands, too; it’s the economy!” Maryland fisherman and former ASMFC Commissioner testifies on behalf of wetlands; Summer flounder habitat needs; Hull paints: hot tamales – no more heavy metals

Chesapeake residents unaware of Bay pollutant sources: nutrient enrichment from farm- and home-based fertilizers elude survey respondents as key sources of Chesapeake Bay pollution; Killers from the ooze: nutrient rich polluted effluent implicated in fish-killing algae attacks; Fisheries, wetlands, and jobs: the value of wetlands to America’s fisheries; EPA seeks ban on lead fishing sinkers; Clean Water Act reauthorization; Cooperative program unites forces to improve the Peconic Bay

Protecting fish habitat with the National Estuary Program; The money game: leveraging funds an asset of NEPs; Fishermen and the National Estuary Program; Reauthorization of the Clean Water Act; Action Alert: dredging process public meetings scheduled for May 1994

ASMFC Who? …….. Why Habitat?; New York fishermen help improve shellfish habitat in Peconic Bay; F.I.S.H. Habitat Education Program – protecting your fishing future