WORLD OCEAN DAY

 World Ocean Day

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Ocean Day World began on 8 June 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, it is not an officially recognized secular holiday by the United Nations as of yet.

World Ocean Day is an opportunity every year to honor the world's ocean that connects us all, celebrate the products the ocean provides, such as seafood, as well as marine life itself for aquariums, pets, and also a time to appreciate its own intrinsic value. The ocean also provides sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically dwindling population of the majority of species.

The Ocean Project, working in partnership with the World Ocean Network, is working to build much greater awareness of the crucial role of the ocean in our lives and the 

important ways people can help. World Ocean Day provides an opportunity to get directly involved in protecting our future, through a new mindset and personal and community action and involvement – beach cleanups, educational programs, art contests, film festivals, sustainable seafood events, and other planned activities help to raise consciousness of how our lives depend on the ocean. These two organizations are collecting signatures to a petition to be presented to the United Nations asking them to designate

June 8th as World Ocean Day.

Uses of the Oceans

Uses of the Oceans covers various aspects of the main types of use of the Ocean's

living and non-living resources and contains the following sub-topics:

Fisheries and aquaculture: including resources, technology, production, processing, utilization, trade, governance 

Recreation and Tourism: including fishing, boating, swimming and other types of 

recreation and tourism, infrastructure development, management approaches

Transportation and Telecommunication: including maritime transport and 

telecommunications (pipes, cables), navigation, port infrastructures, shipping rules, safety at sea, routes, congestion, accidents, governance

Human Settlements on the Coast: including coastal urbanization and development, 

destruction of habitats and other physical alterations

Offshore Oil, Gas and Mining: including extraction of oil and gas, gravel, sand, 

minerals

Energy: including conversion of tidal, wave, thermal (OTEC), salinity and wind energy 

Marine Biotechnology: information on pharmaceuticals and other marine products

from biotechnology

Non-Consumptive Uses: including clean water, endangered species, reserves, habitats, viewing of nature, aesthetic values and amenities 

Ocean Dumping and Ship Wastes: including voluntary dumping, disused oil platforms, ships discharges 

Disposal of Waste from Land: including sewage, non-point sources, CO2 sink 

Each of these sub-topics includes descriptions of the sector, main development or 

legal frameworks, statistics, status and trends, specific issues and governance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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