Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1993
Publication Place
Apia, Western Samoa
Physical Description:
87 p. Part B
112 p. Part A
Call Number
363.7099683 CRA
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
7
Legacy PEIN ID:
39843
General Notes
Available online|Adopted and endorsed by RMI Cabinet. Contents: Part A - State of the environment report 1992. Part B - Action strategy for strengthening environmental management 1992-1996
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Environmental policy - Marshall Islands
Abstract
While the Republic's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) encompasses over 750,000 square miles of the central Pacific Ocean, its land area totals less than 70 square milesa ratio of land to water of less than I to 10.000. Understandably, the Republic's natural resources are primarily marine. The nation'sabundant and extremely biodiverse coral reefs provide habitat for robust populations of fish and other marine life, which support subsistence and incipient commercial reef fisheries. The extensive pelagic fishery that is part of a regional fishing industry may be reaching optimium sustainable production. No endemic species of terres- trial flora or fauna are known, and no endemic aquatic species have yet been identified, but the Marshall Islands offer important natural sanctuaries to several endangered mammals, birds, and turtles.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1993
Publication Place
Apia, Western Samoa
Physical Description:
87 p. Part B
112 p. Part A
Call Number
363.7099683 CRA
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
7
Legacy PEIN ID:
39843
General Notes
Available online|Adopted and endorsed by RMI Cabinet. Contents: Part A - State of the environment report 1992. Part B - Action strategy for strengthening environmental management 1992-1996
Record Created: 29-Sep-1994
Record Modified: 26-Jul-2021