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External sources (not reviewed)

Another key area of interest for the Pacific island countries was the ―blue

The Commission was informed of initiatives that were being undertaken by Pacific island developing countries to protect biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystem services, such as the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in Kiribati, the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, and the Coral Triangle Initiative, which covered a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, included the greatest extent of mangrove forests in

The UNDP-GEF Agulhas/Somali Large Marine Ecosystem Project, referred to in paragraph 147 above, systematically engaged regional

Continuing challenges include developing sustainable coastal fisheries,

In this context, several States described their active membership in regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements and noted their compliance with conservation and management measures adopted by those organizations and arrangements.75 New Zealand noted that a number of regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements had failed significantly in meeting basic management responsibilities

American Samoa’s Congressman has committed himself to obtaining from the United States Congress a review of the tax exemption policy, which applies only to companies already established in the Territory, in order to extend the benefits to new companies wishing to establish operations in

Avoid organ meats (e.g., brain, liver, kidney), red meats

Calls upon regional fisheries management organizations with the competence to regulate highly migratory species to strengthen or establish precautionary, science-based conservation and management measures, as appropriate, for sharks taken in fisheries within their convention areas consistent with the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks, taking into account the