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Arctic Portal: Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME)

http://arcticportal.org/en/pame/

was established by the Arctic Council Ministers with the mandate to address policy and non-emergency pollution prevention and control measures related to the protection of the Arctic marine environment

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Clean Ocean Action

http://www.CleanOceanAction.org/

aims to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast

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Farmed and Dangerous

http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/

campaign highlighting that Salmon farming is bad for the environment focusing on British Columbia, Canada; seeking to protect wild salmon, coastal ecosystems, coastal communities and human health from destructive fish farming practices

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Got Mercury?

http://gotmercury.org/article.php?list=type&type=75

a project of the Turtle Island Restoration Network which seeks to protect the environment and the public from mercury, includes calculator for determining mercury content of fish consumed

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Harmful Algae

http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/page.do?pid=9257

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (NOAA/CSCOR/COP provides information on harmful ocean algae

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Heal the Ocean

http://www.healtheocean.org/

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

focuses on wastewater infrastructure - sewers and septic systems - as well as other municipal operations that contribute to ocean pollution

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Helsinki Commision, The (HELCOM)

http://www.helcom.fi/

has been working successfully for three decades to protect the Baltic marine environment from all sources of pollution

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Local Authorities International Environmental Organisation (KIMO)

http://www.zetnet.co.uk/coms/kimo/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an international association of Local Authorities, which works towards cleaning up pollution in the North Sea

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Shell to Sea

http://www.corribsos.com/

campaign website against Shell's planned Corrib gas pipeline in western Ireland, which would discharge toxic waste into a bay which is a breeding ground for dolphins and whales, as well as harming the local environment overall

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Surfers Against Sewage

http://www.sas.org.uk/

campaigns for an end to the discharge of raw and partially treated sewage and toxic waste, into our oceans and inland waters

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