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Contents of this page:

     · Information

       · International agreements

         · Institutions

           · Sargasso Sea and the “Great Sargassum Belt”

Also see these Atlantic Ocean "marginal seas":

     · European Transboundary Regions

            ~ Baltic Sea

       · Mediterranean & Black Sea region

         · Caribbean

Information

Atlantic Ocean @ freeworldmaps.net

International agreements

Abidjan Convention

     · Full title: Abidjan Convention for Cooperation in the Protection, Management and Development

       of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Atlantic Coast of the West, Central and Southern

       Africa Region

Ospar Convention

     · ”OSPAR started in 1972 with the Oslo Convention against dumping and was broadened to cover land-

       based sources of marine pollution and the offshore industry by the Paris Convention of 1974. These

       two conventions were unified, up-dated and extended by the 1992 OSPAR Convention. The new annex

       on biodiversity and ecosystems was adopted in 1998 to cover non-polluting human activities that

       can adversely affect the sea.”

Institutions

Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS)

New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative (NEOSEC)

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance

Sargasso Sea & the “Great Sargassum Belt”

Great Sargassum Belt @ Seaweed Generation