Published:
January 1, 1989
Originator:
Chesapeake Bay Program

As more and more people inhabited theBay region, they cut the forests and fished the waters more intently. Large ships began to ply the waterways, homes crowded along her shores and the Bay became a receptable for the wastes of our growing society. One means to assess how much living matter is produced in the Bay and what pathways this "energy" follows is to track amount of carbon in different groups of organisms. This is the third monitoring report.

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