1.  We strongly advocate sustainable use of coastal resources, which includes the exploitation of minerals.

2.  News articles have done a good job explaining the El Nino phenomenon and describing its potentially harmful effects on coastal marine resources.

3.  The report was designed to assist policy-makers at the state and federal level to develop ways to protect coastal resources.

4.  Greenland, though comparatively large, has a tiny population that depends on coastal resources for survival.

5.  It also will map coastal resources of the Seychelles and Comoros archipelagos.

6.  Some economists argue that Greenland, although huge, is essentially a small island because of its tiny population that lives basically off limited coastal resources.

7.  The platform highlights several critical environmental and natural resource issues for the region, including biodiversity, ocean and coastal resources, freshwater resources and climate change.

8.  Human activity is endangering ocean and coastal resources, according to the report from the World Wildlife Fund, Center for International Environmental Law and the IUCN.

9.  Under the agreement Canada has cancelled an amendment to the law to protect coastal resources which gave Canadian coastguards the power to seize trawlers working in international waters.