The major threats are from coastal development, destructive fishing practices, overexploitation of marine resources, marine pollution and sedimentation from inland deforestation and farming.

CNN: Task force announces coral reef protections

Mr Kleist, speaking in the Danish capital Copenhagen, said Greenland needed to develop its resources, as it was too reliant on fishing and subsidies from Denmark.

BBC: Greenland rare earths: No special favours for EU

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.

UNESCO: THEMES

Dempsey returned to Denver in 1983 to practice law, joining the board of Royal Resources, a public oil-exploration company run by a trout-fishing buddy who had been assigned by a court to clean up securities fraud.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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.

WSJ: Lobster Glut Slams Prices