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Delaware Inland Bays

Direct Mail Survey

Type:  Stressors affecting habitat (i.e., which sources have contributed to its degradation and whether they are direct or indirect factors).

Category:  Submerged

Cost:  $50,000 for media campaign 

Description:  Social Survey done by direct mail to Sussex County, Delaware, residents to determine attitudes about Pfiesteria piscicida.

Outcome:  Document can be used by policymakers to garner resources to direct Inland Bays cleanups.

Contact:  Jim Falk, 302-645-4235, jfalk@udel.edu

Citations:  Understanding Delaware Residents' Concerns, Attitudes, and Perceptions about Harmful Algal Blooms: Pfiesteria piscicida; and The Center for Inland Bays Sea Grant University of Deleware, published September 2000.