Some hope the biggest jolt it supplies is to the local fishing and marine industry.
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The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) is part of a powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests that are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to address the blatant need for coordinated, global action and confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss.
Between 700, 000 and 1 million seabirds are killed each year by marine debris such as discarded fishing line and plastic bags.
And most of those dollars still come from companies that sell boats, fishing equipment and other marine-related products.
The move comes after a committee was formed last August to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.
The ban came into affect in November after a committee was formed to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.
"Worldwide, at least 100 marine species are now under individual fishing quota management, " observes an article in the first-quarter 2006 issue of the Milken Institute Review.
The ultimate aim is to create an "ecologically coherent" network of protected areas around all UK coasts, safeguarding important natural habitats while allowing other activities such as recreational angling, commercial fishing, surfing and marine energy to go ahead.
She added that fish fingers and salmon nibbles were compliant with Fish For Life and Marine Stewardship Council-certified from sustainable fishing practices.
The major threats are from coastal development, destructive fishing practices, overexploitation of marine resources, marine pollution and sedimentation from inland deforestation and farming.
We recognise how important it is to have marine accidents reduced bearing in mind that fishing is statistically 13 times more dangerous than coal mining.
The project looks at four main threats to coral reefs -- marine-based threats, over-fishing, coastal development, and land-based sources of pollution -- in six main coral reef regions.
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.
Fish populations in the area had dropped dramatically due to over fishing and the protected zones will allow marine stocks to regenerate.
Fisheries and the marine environment could be managed regionally "on a collaborative basis with the fishing industry", he added.
The panel will also have to finalise levels of protection in each zone, as the Marine Bill allows regulators a lot of flexibility in what to prohibit (such as fishing) for which periods of the year.
The overall effect is to undermine the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems, affecting in turn their ability to support coastal livelihoods such as fishing and tourism and their potential role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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.
The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.
Central to the case against bottom-fishing is the protection of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, which are especially rich in marine life of all kinds.
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