Coast this complex with numerous sheltered embayments, islands and estuaries have increased the formation the extensive wetlands especially in Saginaw Bay, St Marys River, and east of Georgian Bay. This complexity, coupled with diverse geological clock, making the most of wetlands diversity on the Great Lakes (Smith et al. 1991). The coastal wetlands are used as spawning, nursery areas and nurtured by a series of arbitrary force and wetland dependent. | OUR FRAMEWORK Policies and Strategies FISHERIES Asian Development Bank Published by the Asian Development Bank August 2004. This is a typeset version of the official policy paper approved by the Asian Development Bank Board of Directors on 25 September 1997. ii Abbreviations CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research DMC DWFN EEZ ESCAP developing member country distant-water fishing nation exclusive economic zone Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific FAO GRT ICFM ICLARM Food and Agriculture Organization gross registered tonnage integrated coastal fisheries management International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management INFOFISH Intergovernmental Organisation for Marketing Information and Technical Advisory Services for Fishery Products in the Asia Pacific Region MEY MPA MSY NACA NGO PRC SEAFDEC TA UNCED maximum economic yield marine protected area maximum sustainable yield Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific nongovernment organization People s Republic of China Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center technical assistance United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCLOS US United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea United States Notes i In this Report refers to US dollars. ii The term nautical mile refers to the length of one minute of arc of a great circle and is equivalent to approximately kilometers. .
