Regional Organizations

 

In several of the Regional Seas, strong regional organizations double as secretariats and implementing agencies for their respective Regional Seas programme.

Other regional organisations that cooperate and are actively involved in some of the Regional Seas Programmes include the Regional Fisheries Bodies.

Prominent Regional Organizations

• Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS)
• South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP)
• Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
• Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
• Central America Marine Transport Commission (COMISIÓN CENTROAMERICANA DE TRANSPORTE MARÍTIMO) - (COCATRAM)
• Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP)
• Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME)
• Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helsinki Commission)
• Commission for the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution
• Caspian Environment programme (CEP)
• OSPAR Commission
• The Regional Organization for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA)
• Regional Organization for the Protection of Marine Environment (ROPME)

Regional Fisheries Bodies