Prevention of marine pollution

V Marine safety and protection of the marine environment from accidental pollution

(b) Integrated management approaches to address marine pollution

Annex IV to the Madrid Protocol covers marine pollution.

Effects of Pollution on Marine Mammals. Marine Mammal Commission Annual Report to Congress, Bethesda, Maryland, 1996.

We have recently amended our Merchants' Shipping Act, with a view to reducing marine pollution from marine transport activities and dumping.

Anbar, H. Litter in the Gulf. Marine Pollution Control, 32 455 456, 1996.

N. Nettleship. Incidental catch of marine birds and mammals in fishing nets off Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 18 344 349, 1987.

Iceland has actively encouraged an open discussion on marine pollution, an issue of international concern.

Carr, A. Impact of non degradable marine debris on the ecology and survival outlook of sea turtles. Marine Pollution Bulletin 18 352 356, 1987.

However, activities under the Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution subprogramme (including the Land based Sources of Marine Pollution Protocol) and those that promote the implementation of the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol are directly related to marine litter.

Therefore, we must redouble our efforts to combat and limit the pollution and degradation of marine ecosystems.

The Secretary General's report highlights the growing problem of marine debris and its link with land based sources of pollution, as well as the issue of noise pollution.

State of the Marine Environment 2003. Marine Pollution and Coastal Zone Management Section Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources (MRMEWR). Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 2003.

Marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem that constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies.

Marine scientific research can lead to a better understanding and utilization of the ocean and its resources in almost all aspects, including fisheries, marine pollution and coastal zone management.

Iceland has over the years actively encouraged more concerted action on marine pollution, an issue of growing international concern.

Kuwait is also party to the Protocol concerning Marine Pollution Resulting from Exploration and Exploitation of the Continental Shelf.

In view of the biotechnological potential and vulnerability of living marine resources, we underline the need for efforts to ensure marine biodiversity and to prevent, reduce and eliminate pollution of the marine environment from ships and land based activities.

We should thus address, for example, marine pollution, which respects no boundaries and must therefore be met with global action.

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and, in particular, land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and in particular land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Recognizing that marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem and that, due to the many different types and sources of marine debris, different approaches to its prevention and removal are necessary,

Recognizing that marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem and that, due to the many different types and sources of marine debris, different approaches to their prevention and removal are necessary,

Recognizing that marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem and that, due to the many different types and sources of marine debris, different approaches to their prevention and removal are necessary,

Recognizing that marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem and that due to the many different types and sources of marine debris different approaches to their prevention and removal are necessary,

Ibid. (citing London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 29 December 1972, art.

There is growing awareness in the region of the impact of land based sources of marine pollution, which is estimated to be responsible for about 80 per cent of all pollution entering the oceans.

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and, in particular, land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine and coastal habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Since the adoption of resolution 57 141, there has been a concerted effort to widen the scope of GMA from its main objective, namely, to combat marine pollution and prevent the physical degradation of the marine environment, to include living marine resources.

62. Encourages States to ratify or accede to international agreements addressing the protection and preservation of the marine environment and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation, as well as agreements that provide for compensation for damage resulting from marine pollution, and to adopt the necessary measures consistent with the Convention, aimed at implementing and enforcing the rules contained in those agreements

25. Emphasizes the importance of the implementation of Part XII of the Convention in order to protect and preserve the marine environment, including coastal areas, and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation

While not yet the subject of international regulation, noise pollution in the marine environment is responsible for changes in behaviour and for injuries that could lead to the deaths of marine mammals and other species.

We should not shy away from measures that would help to protect marine natural resources from pollution or illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

The involvement of IMO in Antarctic matters relates primarily to the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships and to maritime safety.

Iran states that its marine resources were exposed to pollution resulting from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and that the pollution resulted in reductions in fisheries production, especially in the Bushehr and Khuzestan provinces of Iran.

It is also noted that given its potential for causing transboundary pollution, marine debris is a global problem as well as a national one.

Schrey, E. and Vauk, G. J. M. Records of entangled gannets (Sula bassana) at Helgoland, German Bight. Marine Pollution Bulletin 18 350 352, 1987.

a. promote programmes of scientific, educational, technical and other assistance to developing States for the protection and preservation of the marine environment and the prevention, reduction and control of marine pollution. Such assistance shall include, inter alia

My delegation attaches great significance to the marine environment and supports the implementation of Part XII of the Convention, which deals with the protection and preservation of the marine environment and resources from pollution and physical degradation.

b. provide appropriate assistance, especially to developing States, for the minimization of the effects of major incidents which may cause serious pollution of the marine environment

Another subject of concern is the issue of noise pollution and its effects on marine biological resources  a phenomenon that is new to many of us.

Education and training are needed for many sectors of society and the general public in order to raise awareness about everyone's responsibility to prevent marine pollution.

The Republic of Korea is also continuing to implement measures to protect the marine environment by preventing or reducing pollution from vessels and land based sources.

45. Urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based ActivitiesA 51 116, annex II. and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine environment against pollution and physical degradation