E.g. Johnston Atoll, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands.

It's the largest atoll nation in the world.

In 2003, another 90 tonnes were found near that atoll and the Midway Islands.

Then you go to Palmyra Atoll that has more biomass of herbivores, and the dead corals are clean, and the corals are coming back.

If we go back to a place like Palmyra Atoll, where I was with Jeremy Jackson a few years ago, the corals are doing better and there are sharks.

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.

http www.janeresture.com oceania_warming1 http ourworld.compuserve.com homepages tvchoice tvc99x.htm for a fascinating account of the recent history of Tuvalu, see G. A. Finin, Small is Viable the Global Ebbs and Flows of a Pacific Atoll Nation, East West Center Working Papers, No. 15 April 2002 at http www.eastwestcenter.org stored pdfs PIDPwp015.pdf.

Many Parties, especially those that rely heavily on a single agricultural system, such as nomadic livestock husbandry (e.g. Mongolia) and atoll agriculture (e.g. Maldives), stated that the low productivity of their agricultural system will be exacerbated by the increased erosion and loss of soil fertility resulting from climate change and its adverse impact on groundwater.