Summary

Description

On behalf of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service were invited to Wake Atoll in June 1998. The purpose of the visit was to conduct baseline biological surveys in the vicinity of the Peacock Point outfall pipe and to examine the sites of other pointsource discharges to the marine environment i.e., power plant, desalinization plant, and storm water outlets. The biologists were asked to 1 generally characterize the coralreef habitats within the vicinity of the outfall, 2 document the primary species of reef fishes, corals, other macroinvertebrates, and algae that exist in those habitats, and 3 investigate whether the reef communities at the other sites appeared to have been impacted by the discharges. This report contains the results of these surveys.