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Determine appropriate water quality standards and pemit conditions for nutrients and waste products applicable to fish aquaculture operations to be conducted in restored, historical ponds on the coast of Molokai Island, HI.

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The Molokoi Fish Pond Project is designed to determine effects on water quality of commercial fish production within several different historical fish ponds and immediately offshore in order to establish appropriate water quality standards and discharge permit conditions for the operation of these ponds. Some of these historical ponds are currently in use for fish production, some are not in use, and some are being restored for future use. The goal is to determine concentrations of nutrients and other water quality parameters both before and following commercial fish production in these ponds. Water quality effects will also be measured offshore at selected locations within 1000 meters of the ponds. For a description of the fish ponds and current efforts to restore them, see the following website:http://www.epa.gov/region09/cross_pr/innovations/lokoia.html

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