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action: Canada
Environment
Canada: Marine
Debris in Canada.
Environment
Canada: National
Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment
from Land-Based Activities
Fisheries
and Oceans, Canada's Ocean Strategy, Canada: Beach
Sweeps. The goals of the Beach Sweeps are to improve coastal
environments; inform the public about the extent and impact
of marine debris; collect data for future studies; encourage
people to behave in a more environmentally-friendly manner;
and help individuals and groups organize a safe, educational
and fun activity.
Pitch-in-Canada
Vancouver
Aquarium: Great Canadian
Shoreline Clean Up
International
actors and agreements in the region
See
Global action.
UNEP Global programme of action for the protection of the
marine environment from land-based activities (UNEP GPA).
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International
Coral Reef Initiative and other organizations and networks
on
the threats to coral reefs, including the effects of litter/debris.
Regional
cooperation
North Pacific Marine Science Organization
(PICES). An intergovernmental scientific organization established
in 1992. Present members: Canada, People's Republic of China,
Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, and the United
States of America. Purposes: To promote and coordinate marine
research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas,
especially northward of 30 degrees North; to advance scientific
knowledge about the ocean environment, global weather and
climate change, living resources and their ecosystems, and
impacts of human activities; and to promote the collection
and rapid exchange of scientific information on these issues.
Regional
reports on the state of the marine and coastal environment
University
of Rhode Island: Large Marine Ecosystems (LME): The region
is made up of parts of the Gulf
of California,
California Current, Gulf
of Alaska, East
Bering Sea, and Insular
Pacific–Hawaiian.
UNEP:
Global
Environment Outlook 3 (GEO3). Coastal and marine areas.
Other
publications on marine and coastal environment, including
marine litter
Articles
in Marine Pollution Bulletin on marine litter/marine
debris in Alaska, California, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands:
2003,
2001,
2000,
1999.
Natural History: "Trashed:
Across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere".
article by Charles Moore, Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
"Out
in the Pacific, Plastic is Getting Drastic (The World's
Largest Landfill is in the Middle of the Ocean)". Article
by Charles Moore.
Private
sector and NGOs actors and initiatives
Ocean
Conservancy: International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). ••>
UNEP
and Clean up Australia: Clean up the World! ••>
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National
action: United States
U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Marine
Debris Programme.
US EPA Beachwatch
Programme
U.S. EPA and Ocean Conservancy: U.S.
National Marine Debris Monitoring Program.
U.S. Coast Guard: Marine
Debris Garbage dumping restrictions in U.S. waters, and
additional info on marine debris.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Marine
entanglement debris cleanup
Ocean
Conservancy; International
Coastal Cleanup: Annual U.S. Coastal Cleanup and U.S.
Co-ordinators
Marine
Environment Education Foundation: National
Clean Boating Campaign
American
Fisheries Society: Resources Policy Handbook, Chapter
on marine
plastic debris.
Alaska
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science
Center. Entanglement
studies.
Alaska
Department of Environmental Conservations:
Cruise
Shipwaste disposal
California
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority
(SCCWRP: Distribution
of Anthropogenic and Natural Debris on the Mainland Shelf
of the Southern California Bight.
California
Coastal Commission: Coastal
Cleanup Day and Boating
Clean & Green Campaign.
Pacifica
Beach Coalition, City of Pacifica: Monthly
cleanups
Project
AWARE Foundation, California: Beach
Cleanup
Monterey
Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Boating
in the National Marine Sanctuary
Algalita
Marine Research Foundation: Pelagic
Plastics (research voyages to the Pacific Garbage Patch).
See personal and scientific reports
on these findings, the video
"Synthetic Sea", a TV broadcast "Plastics
invade the ocean", and the brochure "Plastics
are forever".
Hawai'i
Bishop
Museum: Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Cleanup
Marine
debris cleanup (scroll down the page) in the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands: A NOAA expedition co-ordinated through a
multi-agency partnership made up of the National Marine Fisheries
Service Honolulu Lab; the U.S. Coast Guard, National Ocean
Service; the Hawai'i
Sea Grant; The Ocean
Conservancy; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; City &
County of Honolulu; and NOAA Research Vessel Townsend Cromwell
National
Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu Laboratory: Protected
species: Marine mammals (impact of marine debris).
Get
the Drift and Bag It. Annual statewide cleanup operation,
on land and underwater, organized by Hawai'i Sea Grant within
the International Coastal Cleanup.
"Experts
assess derelict fishing nets in main Hawaiian Island".
Press release (May 2001) from Hawai'i Sea Grant.
Reef Restoration / Marine Debris Survey & Removal.
NOAA Research Vessel Townsend Cromwell Student Connection.
Pacific
Whale Foundation: Marine
Debris.
Ocean
Future Society: Voyage to Kure: In the headlines. A number
of articles on the findings of Jean-Michel Cousteau in the
Northwestern Hawaiian islands: Marine debris. See also
box to the left. Islands
in the filthy stream. •
Remote
Hawaiian Islands Littered With Trash • Cousteau
Finds "Horrifying" Trash on Desert Islands
Oregon
and Washington
Pacific
States Marine Fisheries Commission: Marine
Debris Collection and Recycling Program in Oregon
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