Iraq contends that Iran has failed to prove long term damage to mangroves, coral reefs or fisheries.

Under the realization from tourist operators, fishermen, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Authority and scientists that the Great Barrier Reef is doomed under the current governance regime.

The establishment of marine parks for the protection of coral reefs and sea grass beds is an integral part of the fisheries programme.

The rehabilitation of fisheries resources consists of the installation of artificial reefs breeding and release of shrimp to rehabilitate stocks implementation of a programme to reduce the number of industrial trawlers as from 1993 rehabilitation of coral reefs research and monitoring of shrimp stocks and research and monitoring of demersal fish stocks.

Focusing on coral reefs turns out to be a surprisingly efficient target. It preserves biodiversity, with healthy reefs producing more fish and attracting more tourists.

Parties reported that climate change would affect fishery resources by destroying breeding and nursery areas, such as mangrove forests and coral reefs, and by affecting the availability of nutrients.

And that is the same reef that's the same reef 15 years ago that's the same reef today.

The breakdown of the sum of USD 35,000,000 for the fisheries resources rehabilitation programme is as follows installation of artificial reefs (USD 9,000,000), breeding and release of shrimp seeds to rehabilitate stocks (USD 6,000,000), programme to reduce the number of industrial trawlers from 1993 (USD 5,000,000), rehabilitation of coral reefs (USD 10,800,000), research and monitoring shrimp stock (USD 1,700,000) and research and monitoring of demersal fish stock (USD 2,500,000).

But business as usual means that in 50 years, there may be no coral reefs and no commercial fishing, because the fish will simply be gone.

In the UNEP feasibility study on sustainable management of marine litter of 2004, it is reported that in 2002, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collected 107 tonnes of nets and lines and other fishing gear on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll (northern Hawaiian Islands) alone.

ReefCity.

Golden Grotto?

The amount claimed is to compensate for seed reduction as a result of the loss of mangrove cover (USD 23,000,000) damage to coral reefs (USD 17,000,000) reduction in fisheries resources (USD 25,000,000) and the expenses of programmes for the rehabilitation of fisheries resources (USD 35,000,000).

IV Coral reefs

Look out, the rocks!

The reef!

Major Scott, there's a reef between us and that island, and these boats will get hung up on it.

Night Rock by Tigert

Kwajalein

The negative impact of abandoned fishing nets, especially gill nets on coral reefs, is tremendous and has been recorded in the region (State of the Marine Environment Report, 2003).

There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.

And on top of the coral reefs are sand banks.

Florida Keys, FL

104. Welcomes the publication of the Status of Coral Reefs in Tsunami Affected Countries 2005 by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network

A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world.

I want to be able to go back to this reef. Thank you.

Shipwreck. Ship on the rocks!

They're The Southern Cross above coral reefs.

The commercial fishers comprise about 300 boats, with 50 per cent of the fishers owning their fishing gear and the remainder acting as helpers or employees of the gear owners.

Provision of support for the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) for promoting effective and sustainable coral reef management practices.

We're crocheting a coral reef.

The hot sand, Green seaweed anchored to a rock...

You won't find it down there. That's the Golden Grotto.

Those reefs at Discovery Bay, Jamaica were the most studied coral reefs in the world for 20 years.

Fishermen had been subjected to arbitrary arrest, confiscation of their boats and their fish harvest and the tearing up and confiscation of their nets.

The Panel also considers that it is not reasonable for Kuwait to assume that there will be no further natural recovery between 2002 and the start of remediation measures to be funded by the third and fourth F4 instalment awards.

I can see the rocks are over here.

Coral reef in New Caledonia.

Fisheries and fishery products

(ii) Fisheries and fishery products

The local fishermen sell their catch to the St. Helena Fisheries Corporation.

(d) Marine and meteorology, including sea surface temperature mapping ocean wastes mapping coastal management (especially erosion assessment of coral reefs) wave height assessment forecasting of wave conditions on shipping routes fisheries (with emphasis on mapping of coastal habitats and location of fishing grounds) tides and currents (patterns, measurements and observations) and wind speed

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

How does the reef work? Well, it's very, very simple.

Blue lagoon, white sand, golden skin.