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Marine Pollution - Diagnosis and Therapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Marine Pollution - Diagnosis and Therapy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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When, in 1966, the Gennan Research Society directed the attention
of oceanographers in the Federal Republic of Ger many to problems
of marine pollution, I was not enthusiastic. Emphasis on this
problem area meant that other important research plans had to be
postponed. But the lectures at the Third International
Oceanographic Congress, September 1970, in Tokyo, and at the FAO
Conference on Marine Pollution and its Effects on Living Resources
and Fishing, December 1970, in Rome, convinced me that research on
problems of marine pollution is a social obligation, and that the
oceanographer has to take a stand. I issued public warnings about
the continuing use of pesticides and had to defend myself against
protests by the fishing industry and many colleagues who were, in
Novem ber 1970, unaware of the extent of the threat. Thus, I was
required by my profession to acquire an overview of the prob lems
of ocean pollution. In 1971 I only needed to familiarize myself
with some one hundred bibliographical items. In the interim, the
flood of data has risen dramatically, and in the year 1975, no
fewer than 868 publications under the heading of "Marine Pollution"
were reported (Table 1). It is, therefore, more and more diffi cult
to distinguish new results of scientific research from the many
repetitions and variations, and I fear that from year to year my
efforts to illustrate the actual status of the problem at a given
moment will be subject to more gaps."
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