Reducing Environmental Stress in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (YSLME)
The Yellow Sea is one of the most intensely exploited areas in the world. Approximately 10% of the world population lives in the area that drains to the Yellow Sea. This Sea is a semi-enclosed basin, shallow but reach in resources, and its waters are a highway for international shipping. Large cities, among them Shanghai, Dalian, Tianjin and Seoul, depend on the Yellow Sea as a source of marine resources for human nutrition, economic development, reacreation and tourism.
The analysis conducted during PDF-B works indicated the following major transboundary environmental problems:
- (i) Decline/collapse of transboundary fish stocks;
- (ii) degradation of Biodiversity and of critical habitats;
- (iii) water quality deterioration;
- (iv) unsanitary conditions due to dispersion of pathogens and contaminants threatening human health and mariculture.
The objective of the proposed project is to promote multi-country ecosystem based management practices with the aim of reducing stresses to the environment due to population and industrialization pressures. The project will enhance consultations among littoral countries building on existing partial agreements (APEC etc.) and operationalizing elements of UNEP's Regional Seas Programme (NOWPAP). The project will complement activities of the East Asian Seas GEF project and of the Tumen River GEF projects.
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Yellow Sea (LME)
| TDA/SAP |
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Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for the Yellow Sea LME| Documents & Resources |
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report
List of Participants
China-Korea Joint Ocean Research Centre (CKJORC) 
The Yellow Sea – A Sea of Co-operation, Peace, and Prosperity
Yellow Sea| General information | |
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| GEF ID | 790 |
| Project type | Full-Size Project |
| Status | closed (Project Closure) |
| Start Date | 12 Apr 2004 |
| End Date | 31 Mar 2011 |
| GEF characteristic: | |
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| GEF Allocation to project | USD 14,394,183 |
| Total Cost of the project: | USD 24,696,248 |
| Results |
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| YES - See results data (790) |
| Partners |
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China
, Korea Republic of
, Regional
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
| Project contacts |
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Andrew Menz
Deputy Regional Director
Yihang Jiang
Project Manager
Euidea Yun
IT Specialist
Isao Endo
Environmental Economist
Mark Walton
Fisheries and Biodiversity Officer
Jongtae Choi
IT Administrator
Connie Chiang
Project Manager
Andrew Hudson
Head of Water & Ocean Governance
Jose Erezo Padilla
Regional technical Adviser(RTA)
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