With nearly 90 % of all the seafood consumed by Americans coming from imports and nearly 50 % of these imports coming from often unregulated aquaculture
sources *, Dock to Dish Key West is dedicated to engineering a fundamental change in the seafood marketplace through a revival of traditional values and principles, while focusing on freshness and transparency under an
ecosystem - based
management approach to sustainability.
To that end, RCF operates a long - term study that examines how intertwined grizzly bears are with their chief food
source, salmon, to ultimately inform
ecosystem - based
management of salmon such that the nutritional needs of grizzlies as well as other coastal large carnivores such as black bears are safeguarded.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based
sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine
ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound
management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste
management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based
sources, can have on the marine environment, marine
ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.
According to Mr. Heikki Simola Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Finnish forest
management has made Finnish forest and mire
ecosystems as a considerable net
source of carbon into the atmosphere for decades.
Extending this approach to other shelf - sea models would help quantify the uncertainty in more biogeochemical simulations, a step that would ultimately improve the models» ability to inform better
management of sea - shelf
ecosystems, the
source of more than 90 % of the world's fishing catches.