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Regional organizations

In several of the Regional Seas, strong regional organizations double as secretariats and implementing agencies for their respective Regional Seas programme.

Prominent among these are:
Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS) [website]
South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) [website]
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) [website]
Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR) [website]
Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) [website]
Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) [website]
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helsinki Commission) [website]
Commission for the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution [website]
Caspian Environment programme (CEP) [website]
East African Coastal Database [website]
Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) [website]
OSPAR Commission [website]
The Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment
of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA) [website]
Regional Organization for the Protection of Marine Environment (ROPME) [website]

Other regional organisations that cooperate and are actively involved in some of the Regional Seas Programmes include the Regional Fisheries Bodies:

APFIC
CECAF
CIFA
COPESCAL
CWP
EIFAC
GFCM
IOTC
RECOFI
SWIOFC
WECAFC
ACFR
CCAMLR
CCSBT
CWP
IWC
OLDEPESCA
AAFC
CARPAS
COREP
CECAF
COFREMAR
IBSFC
ICCAT
ICES
NAFO
NAMMCO
NASCO
NEAFC
SEAFO
SRCF
WECAFC
GFCM
APFIC
CECAF
CIFA
COPESCAL
CWP
EIFAC
GFCM
IOTC
RECOFI
SWIOFC
WECAFC
APFIC
CPPS
FFA
IATTC
IPHC
WCPFC
NPAFC
NACA
PICES
PSC
SPC
SEAFDEC
CEPTFA
ACFR
CCAMLR
CCSBT
CWP
IWC
OLDEPESCA
BOBP-IGO
IOTC
RECOFI
SWIOFC
WIOTO
AAFC
CARPAS
COREP
CECAF
COFREMAR
IBSFC
ICCAT
ICES
NAFO
NAMMCO
NASCO
NEAFC
SEAFO
SRCF
WECAFC
APFIC
CIFA
COPESCAL
EIFAC
MRC
LVFO
NACA