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Wells, Peter G. and John Gratwick. Canadian Conference on Marine Environmental Quality: Proceedings. February 29 - March 3, 1988. 320 pp.

This report documents the proccedings of a conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia on marine environmental quality in Canada. At the conference, the two main session focus areas were on control strategies and the status of and issues with marine environmental quality in Canada. The report contains abstracts from all of the presentations that took place during the sessions, as well as more indepth summaries. Also at the conference were three workshop sessions on implementing the Montreal guidelines in the context of a Candian marine environmental quality framework, opportunities and constraints for implementation of a Canadian marine environmental quality framework, and approaches and actions for successful development and implementation of a Canadian marine environmental quality framework. These workshops allowed the participants to discuss the issues and identify desired elements for a marine environmental quality framework. This report contains summaries of these discussions, as well as contains the final conclusions and recommendations from the workshop participants.

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