News Headline
Africa: Small Islands States' Big Development Challenge
Source
allAfrica.com
Publication Date
2014-09-08
The ocean is a crucial component of the Earth system, essential for supporting ecosystem and human health by regulating the weather and climate, producing freshwater and soaking up carbon. It also provides food and other resources, trade and migration routes. Global fisheries support over 170 million jobs, not including livelihoods from aquaculture, tourism and other uses of the marine environment (Figure 1).