NW Atlantic Contents

## Northwest Atlantic Implementation Plan
Report No. 6

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### Table of Contents

#### Authors and Acknowledgements

- Executive Summary

- Introduction

- Background

  - The Georges Bank Ecosystem

    - General Description
    - Criteria Used in Selecting Georges Bank
    - Space-Time Boundaries of Georges Bank Study

  - Rates of Birth, Growth, Mortality and Exchange: Processes Controlling Population Abundance

  - Physical Oceanography of Georges Bank

  - Target Species

    - Overview of Cod and Haddock on Georges Bank
    - Overview of Georges Bank Plankton
    - Larval Fish/Plankton Interactions on Georges Bank

  - Physical/Biological Interactions on Georges Bank

  - Main Hypotheses of Georges Bank Study

- Program Implementation

  - Major Components of the Georges Bank Study

    - Program Objectives

  - Experimental Program

    - Broad-scale Studies

      - Shipboard Surveys (1994 - 1998)
      - Physical/Biological Moorings (1994-1998)
      - Satellite Surveys (1994-1998)

    - Fine-scale Process Studies

      - Vertical Mixing and Stratification (1994)
      - Study of Source/Retention/Exchange of Plankton (1996)
      - Cross-Frontal Exchange (1998)
      - Population/Cohort Studies of Target Species (1994-1998

    - Modeling and Historical data analysis

      - Theory and Modeling
      - Historical Data Sets

  - Methodology and Instrumentation Needs and Development

  - Schedule

- Data Management and Synthesis

- Relation to Other Programs

  - Connections between the Georges Bank Study and Other U.S. GLOBEC Programs

  - Relation to other National and International Programs

- References