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Pollution criteria for estuaries
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Comment must here be made on this three-fold division and on the various papers. As the editors admit: 'A criticism of this book will be that there is not enough tying together of its parts to permit the reader to draw generalized conclusions'. This is very true. The 350 pages of section (2), consisting as they do largely of check-lists, will be extremely valuable to students of the fauna of the western American seaboard, but their interest will remain very much a local matter especially as, at least in the manner of their presentation, they bear no relation to the supposed main theme of the volume. The information is undoubtedly of importance in surveys of this type, but need it have been published in this book? The content of section (1) will be of more general interest, but it is again made unnecessarily difficult to relate this to section (3). In both of the first two sections there is much repetitive material and innumerable
redundant text-figures and plates, e.g. six photographs of fishing boats, several of fishing nets being hauled, and even one of four 'horses used in early years of Columbia River salmon fishery' in the paper on commercial fisheries (the photograph o f 'digging razor clams' in the same paper is aesthetically quite pleasing, but the editorial axe could with advantage have fallen upon it, as upon much else). The last section is informative and will have a wide interest, although most of the data are descriptive and there has, at yet, been little attempt to follow the radionuclides through food chains. Most radlonuclides were incorporated into the sediments, but high levels of ~Zn were recorded in various organisms (up to 730 pCi/g dry wt. in Platichthys and 1,200 in zooplankton). It was also recorded in asteroids at depths of down to 2,900 m in the adjacent Pacific and in Mytilus from 300 miles to the south of the estuary (the plume reaches the Californian boundary in summer and autumn). The level of radionuclides in both the physical and biotic environments correlated well with the relative activity of the reactors. The book is a useful presentation of preliminary data appertaining to the coastal waters of Oregon and Washington (and, to a lesser extent, the Columbia River estuary) and to the discharge of radionudides from Hanford. In its present form, however, it is overloaded with material of purely local interest and suffers markedly from a lack of cohesion (and editing). If a smaller integrated account of the fate of the radionuclides had been produced, the value of these studies would reach a much wider audience. As it is, the book can only really be recommended to institutions specializing in radionuclides and the environment and in the fauna off the Oregon coast. They will find in it much of interest and worth, but whether or not it will be regarded as a bargain at about £11.00 is open to question. R. S. K. BARNES
Pollution Criteria for Estuaries A four day conference on pollution criteria for estuaries is to be held in Southampton from July 17 to 20, 1973. The conference will consider ways of measuring pollution in estuaries and tidal inlets, and will attempt to lay down a practical programme for monitoring. Sessions will include detailed study of particular estuaries and tidal waters--among them the Solent, Southampton Water, the Forth Estuary and Langstone harbour--but sessions will also cover more general matters such as legal controls and legislation, medical aspects of pollution in estuaries and ports, pollution monitoring, and the planning of pollution budgets for estuaries. Further details can be obtained from Mr M. A. McSweeney, Department of Civil Engineering, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH.
1973 MacmillanJournalsLtd. Printedin Great Britainby Taylor& Francis (Printers) Ltd.. RankineRoad, Basingstoke,Hampshire.Tel. 0256-3326
Comment must here be made on this three-fold division and on the various papers. As the editors admit: 'A criticism of this book will be that there is not enough tying together of its parts to permit the reader to draw generalized conclusions'. This is very true. The 350 pages of section (2), consisting as they do largely of check-lists, will be extremely valuable to students of the fauna of the western American seaboard, but their interest will remain very much a local matter especially as, at least in the manner of their presentation, they bear no relation to the supposed main theme of the volume. The information is undoubtedly of importance in surveys of this type, but need it have been published in this book? The content of section (1) will be of more general interest, but it is again made unnecessarily difficult to relate this to section (3). In both of the first two sections there is much repetitive material and innumerable
redundant text-figures and plates, e.g. six photographs of fishing boats, several of fishing nets being hauled, and even one of four 'horses used in early years of Columbia River salmon fishery' in the paper on commercial fisheries (the photograph o f 'digging razor clams' in the same paper is aesthetically quite pleasing, but the editorial axe could with advantage have fallen upon it, as upon much else). The last section is informative and will have a wide interest, although most of the data are descriptive and there has, at yet, been little attempt to follow the radionuclides through food chains. Most radlonuclides were incorporated into the sediments, but high levels of ~Zn were recorded in various organisms (up to 730 pCi/g dry wt. in Platichthys and 1,200 in zooplankton). It was also recorded in asteroids at depths of down to 2,900 m in the adjacent Pacific and in Mytilus from 300 miles to the south of the estuary (the plume reaches the Californian boundary in summer and autumn). The level of radionuclides in both the physical and biotic environments correlated well with the relative activity of the reactors. The book is a useful presentation of preliminary data appertaining to the coastal waters of Oregon and Washington (and, to a lesser extent, the Columbia River estuary) and to the discharge of radionudides from Hanford. In its present form, however, it is overloaded with material of purely local interest and suffers markedly from a lack of cohesion (and editing). If a smaller integrated account of the fate of the radionuclides had been produced, the value of these studies would reach a much wider audience. As it is, the book can only really be recommended to institutions specializing in radionuclides and the environment and in the fauna off the Oregon coast. They will find in it much of interest and worth, but whether or not it will be regarded as a bargain at about £11.00 is open to question. R. S. K. BARNES
Pollution Criteria for Estuaries A four day conference on pollution criteria for estuaries is to be held in Southampton from July 17 to 20, 1973. The conference will consider ways of measuring pollution in estuaries and tidal inlets, and will attempt to lay down a practical programme for monitoring. Sessions will include detailed study of particular estuaries and tidal waters--among them the Solent, Southampton Water, the Forth Estuary and Langstone harbour--but sessions will also cover more general matters such as legal controls and legislation, medical aspects of pollution in estuaries and ports, pollution monitoring, and the planning of pollution budgets for estuaries. Further details can be obtained from Mr M. A. McSweeney, Department of Civil Engineering, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH.
1973 MacmillanJournalsLtd. Printedin Great Britainby Taylor& Francis (Printers) Ltd.. RankineRoad, Basingstoke,Hampshire.Tel. 0256-3326