He believes marine resources should remain at a European level because fish tend to cross borders.
In recent years, strong efforts have been made to include local fishermen in the management of marine resources.
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"There has been a depredation of marine resources, " said Mariano Valderrama, vice president of APEGA, Peru's association of gastronomy.
The UNITWIN Network provides a framework to help develop, use and manage costal and marine resources sustainably in the east African region.
One of its key messages to the global community is the importance of marine resources to a new green economy.
The major threats are from coastal development, destructive fishing practices, overexploitation of marine resources, marine pollution and sedimentation from inland deforestation and farming.
They are areas set up to serve as places to test different approaches to integrated management of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine resources and biodiversity.
"We are proud as Cook Islanders to provide our entire exclusive economic zone... as a shark sanctuary, " said Teina Bishop, Cook Islands minister of marine resources.
At the same time, it is blessed with other natural and marine resources as the country stretches from the north of the Bay of Bengal to the vast Indian Ocean.
Having insisted for years that they were capable of managing a sustainable industry, the pro-whalers have shifted emphasis to claim that whaling is essential because whales are consuming so many marine resources.
Biosphere Reserves are areas designated under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to serve as places to test different approaches to integrated management of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine resources and biodiversity.
Patrick Keliher, the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, said his agency has investigated reports of lobstermen coercing others not to go out fishing in an effort to lower supplies and raise prices back to more normal levels.
With regard to the problem of poaching of and illicit trade in endangered and protected wildlife and living marine resources, ASEAN welcomed U.S. support in combating illicit trade in wildlife, and both sides agreed to explore future cooperation in this area.
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The global decrease of coastal marine resources and decline in marine biodiversity will impact countries dependent on coastal fishing, fish-processing industries and tourism causing economic hardship as well as destabilising food security for the 1 billion people who depend on fisheries for most of their protein diet.
This paper develops a methodology for coastal development setbacks, which was first developed for the island of Anguilla in 1996 as part of a study sponsored by the British Development Division in the Caribbean on the Impact of Hurricane Luis on the Coastal and Marine Resources of Anguilla.
The body responsible for protecting the toothfish is the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Some of these and later episodes have been brought before the 35-nation Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Fishing in the region is supposed to be covered by the 23-member Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
They have vast arable land for agriculture, large rainforests that play a crucial role in combating global warming, great biodiversity, abundant renewable energy resources, enormous reserves of fresh water and precious marine and coastal resources.
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Ocean monitoring improves the management of marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and protects life and property on coasts and at sea.
We have the know-how and resources to conserve and restore the aquatic and marine systems that keep the ocean and us healthy.
The Yeosu Declaration aims to promote greater stewardship of the marine environment, sharing knowledge and understanding of how oceans and coastal resources can be enjoyed in a sustainable manner for present and future generations.
Once sovereignty claims have been shelved, countries can start to share out the resources or better still, declare the islands and their waters a marine nature reserve.
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