Location
SPREP LIBRARY
SAMOA
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1993
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Call Number
363.7099683 MAR
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
30206
Legacy PEIN ID:
70173
General Notes
PAC 363.7099683 REP|Accession # 26632
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Environmental policy - Marshall Islands.
Environment - Protection - 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's abundant 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 terrestrial flora or fauna are known, and no endemic aquatic species have yet been identified, but the Marshall Islands otfer important natural sanctuaries to several endangered mammals, birds, and turtles.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
SAMOA
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1993
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Call Number
363.7099683 MAR
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
30206
Legacy PEIN ID:
70173
General Notes
PAC 363.7099683 REP|Accession # 26632
Record Created: 07-Oct-2001
Record Modified: 22-Feb-2021