International Ocean Institute Training Programme

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(iv) Formulation and implementation of awareness and information campaigns for the adoption
of appropriate agricultural techniques, including balanced fertilization and ecological
agriculture, to minimize nutrient losses from agricultural activities;
(v) Introduction of measures to reduce inputs of nutrients via atmospheric deposition from
transportation, industrial plants and agriculture;
(e) Strengthening the capacities of local authorities to take account of likely impacts of inputs
of nutrients from agriculture and urban development in carrying out their functions of planning and
controlling land-use and development;
(f) Establishment or improvement, as appropriate, of monitoring of all aspects of
eutrophication;
(g) Promotion of scientific research on the suspected linkages between eutrophication and
toxic algal blooms;
(h) Development and adoption of programmes to protect and, where appropriate, restore
habitats acting as natural sinks for nutrients such as wetlands.
(b) Regional actions
131. Regional actions should include:
(a) Establishment of common criteria for the identification of existing and potential problem
areas including possible solutions with regard to eutrophication;
(b) Identification of marine areas in the region where nutrient inputs are causing or are likely
to cause pollution, directly or indirectly;
(c) Identification of areas for priority actions;
(d) Establishment of uniform approaches to the calculation of anthropogenic nutrient inputs to
the aquatic environment from agriculture and other sources, as appropriate, with the aim of
improving the estimation of these inputs;
(e) Development and implementation of programmes and measures for reducing nutrient
inputs from anthropogenic activities to areas where these inputs are causing or are likely to cause
pollution directly or indirectly and, where the agricultural sector is a predominant source, to pay
particular attention to that sector and the implementation of measures identified for it;
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