Sustaining the World's Large Marine Ecosystems
Sustaining the World's Large Marine Ecosystems
Sustaining the World's Large Marine Ecosystems
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Outreach and Education for<br />
Ecosystem-based Management in <strong>the</strong> World’s<br />
<strong>Large</strong> <strong>Marine</strong> <strong>Ecosystems</strong><br />
Marie-Christine Aquarone<br />
NOAA LME Program, Narragansett Laboratory<br />
Rhode Island, USA<br />
The LME approach and its five modules (productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution<br />
and ecosystem health, socioeconomics, and governance) provide a practical way<br />
to integrate marine science, ocean management, and <strong>the</strong> improvement of<br />
economic conditions at <strong>the</strong> ecosystem scale in each of <strong>the</strong> world's 64 <strong>Large</strong><br />
<strong>Marine</strong> <strong>Ecosystems</strong> (LMEs) (Figure 1).<br />
Figure 1. Map of <strong>the</strong> 64 <strong>Large</strong> <strong>Marine</strong> <strong>Ecosystems</strong> of <strong>the</strong> world and <strong>the</strong>ir linked watersheds.<br />
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