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... million jobs and generate more than $54 billion annually. These areas are a precious resource, and it is easy to see why it is so important that we protect, restore, and manage these areas. Managing coastal areas cannot happen in a ...
... million jobs and generate more than $54 billion annually. These areas are a precious resource, and it is easy to see why it is so important that we protect, restore, and manage these areas. Managing coastal areas cannot happen in a ...
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... million annually to the nation's coasts. Earth Observation The four strategic goals cut across and define all the work done at NOAA. One issue, however, threads through all four of these goals. There is hardly a scientific, economic, or ...
... million annually to the nation's coasts. Earth Observation The four strategic goals cut across and define all the work done at NOAA. One issue, however, threads through all four of these goals. There is hardly a scientific, economic, or ...
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... was a hydrothermal cycle that we were not aware of . Now we are aware that the entire volume of the world's oceans goes inside the Earth through a hot system every 6 to 8 million years . Once we discovered that system — and understood. 20.
... was a hydrothermal cycle that we were not aware of . Now we are aware that the entire volume of the world's oceans goes inside the Earth through a hot system every 6 to 8 million years . Once we discovered that system — and understood. 20.
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... million ships of antiquity in the ocean . Q : On what basis do you make that estimate ? Ballard : Through estimates made by scholars on the loss of ships through time . Remember societies have open water . Various forms of marine life ...
... million ships of antiquity in the ocean . Q : On what basis do you make that estimate ? Ballard : Through estimates made by scholars on the loss of ships through time . Remember societies have open water . Various forms of marine life ...
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... million is still a lot . Shipwrecks are pure moments in time ; they are time capsules . Whereas you go to an archaeological site on land , and you begin digging and there's someone on top of someone on top of someone . The last culture ...
... million is still a lot . Shipwrecks are pure moments in time ; they are time capsules . Whereas you go to an archaeological site on land , and you begin digging and there's someone on top of someone on top of someone . The last culture ...
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Page 13 - Maintain or restore stocks to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield with the aim of achieving these goals for depleted stocks on an urgent basis and where possible not later than 2015...
Page 10 - In the contiguous zone the state may exercise the control necessary to prevent or punish infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary regulations within its territory or territorial sea.
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Page 15 - State and local governments with respect to ocean and coastal activities, including the management of ocean and coastal resources and identification of appropriate opportunities for policy-making and decision-making at the State and local level; and (8) the preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in ocean and coastal activities...