Deep sea blues
from coastal zones to the high seas, a growing wave of awareness is bringing together citizen groups, businesses and governments, who are mobilising all their resources to save the oceans before human activities destroy them. This has been the conclusion of Anne Platt McGinn's study Safeguarding the Health of Oceans . McGinn is a senior researcher with the Worldwatch Institute, a us -based environmental organisation.
"We need to devote far greater resources to protecting oceans,' McGinn says in her study. A tax of just one-tenth of one per cent on industrial and recreational ocean activities would generate us $500 million a year, she says. And this amount is more than five times the annual budgets of the International Maritime Organisation ( imo ) and the fisheries department of the United Nations' ( un ) Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) combined. "Saving the oceans will take these efforts and more,' says McGinn, "because we've already pushed the world's oceans close to
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