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Nineteen Seas

From the first Action Plan adopted in the Mediterranean (1975), to the most recent for the North-East Pacific (2002), the Regional Seas have multiplied to cover the marine environment of more than 140 of the world's coastal countries.

REGIONAL SEAS
Mediterranean
Red Sea & Gulf
of Aden

ROPME Sea Area
Wider Caribbean
East Asian Seas
South-East Pacific
West & Central Africa
South Pacific
Eastern Africa
Black Sea
North-West Pacific
South Asian Seas
North-East Pacific

IN DEVELOPMENT
Upper SW Atlantic

PARTNER SEAS

Baltic

North-East Atlantic
Arctic
Antarctic
Caspian