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Land Based Sources of Marine Pollution

Based on current information, the land based pollutants constituting the greatest threat to coastal and marine ecosystems and to public health in the Wider Caribbean Region are sewage, oil hydrocarbons, sediments, nutrients, pesticides, litter and marine debris, and toxic wastes.

Links to Pollution Related Websites

These sites are in no particular order. If you know of a site you think should be included in this list, please e-mail your suggestions to rcu@cep.unep.org.

MARINE POLLUTION IN THE CARIBBEAN

REMPEITC-Carib

http://www.rempeitc.org

This site of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean Region contains information about oil pollution, training, regional focal points, and contingency plans.

Tar and Oil Pollution Data for Stations in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (1979-89)

http://neonet.nlr.nl/providers/neonet.nlr.nl/local/ceos/datasets/FWA00245.html

This page contains data collected by NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico as part of the Caribbean Oil Pollution Database (CARIPOL) Project.

ECLAC/CDCC Waste Management Links

http://www.wow.net/community/eclac/CARLINKS/wastlink.htm

This site contains national contingency plans, information about waste management projects, technical documents and the oil spill protocol.

GENERAL MARINE POLLUTION

Smithsonian Institution Ocean Planet Exhibition Page on Marine Pollution

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution2.html

This very educational page has information about cross country sources of pollution, raw sewage, alien species, and America's watersheds.

Ocean News Issue #4 Marine Pollution

http://oceanlink.island.net/marpoll.html

Ocean News is published by Bamfield Marine Station Public Education Programme. The pollution issue has information about sources and solutions of pollution as well as red tides, and is very educational.

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) page on Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators

http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/texts/marine.pollution.dumping.of.wastes.1972.html

The site contains a summary of Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of and Other Matter.

SITES WITH LISTS OF POLLUTION RELATED WEB SITES

Oceanwatch Links

http://www.envirolink.org/envlib/orgs/oceanwatch/links.htm

A compilation of interesting sites with ocean pollution related information.

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