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List of LMEs

Overview Map List of LMEs

Here is the list of the 66 LMEs in the world. The clickable LMEs show where GEF's interventions are, through its funded projects, in protecting and addressing issues in LMEs.

1: East Bering Sea18: West Greenland Shelf35: Gulf of Thailand52: Sea of Okhotsk
2: Gulf of Alaska19: East Greenland Shelf36: South China Sea53: West Bering Sea
3: California Current20: Barents Sea37: Sulu-Celebes Sea54: Northern Bering - Chukchi Seas
4: Gulf of California21: Norwegian Sea38: Indonesian Sea55: Beaufort Sea
5: Gulf of Mexico22: North Sea39: North Australian Shelf56: East Siberian Sea
6: Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf23: Baltic Sea40: Northeast Australian Shelf57: Laptev Sea
7: Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf24: Celtic-Biscay Shelf41: East Central Australian Shelf58: Kara Sea
8: Scotian Shelf25: Iberian Coastal42: Southeast Australian Shelf59: Iceland Shelf and Sea
9: Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf26: Mediterranean Sea43: South West Australian Shelf60: Faroe Plateau
10: Insular Pacific-Hawaiian27: Canary Current44: West Central Austalian Shelf61: Antarctica
11: Pacific Central-American Coastal28: Guinea Current45: Northwest Australian Shelf62: Black Sea
12: Caribbean Sea29: Benguela Current46: New Zealand Shelf63: Hudson Bay Complex
13: Humboldt Current30: Agulhas Current47: East China Sea64: Central Arctic
14: Patagonian Shelf31: Somali Coastal Current48: Yellow Sea65: Aleutian Islands
15: South Brazil Shelf32: Arabian Sea49: Kuroshio Current66: Canadian High Arctic - North Greenland
16: East Brazil Shelf33: Red Sea50: Sea of Japan
17: North Brazil Shelf34: Bay of Bengal51: Oyashio Current



Small Islands States (Pacific) - The Pacific Islands (GIWA region 62) includes all of the 23 island nations or territories of the tropical Pacific Ocean that embrace the cultural areas of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. The region covers about 12% of the world’s ocean space. These island states and territories range from very large, high continental islands, to countless off shore large and small islands that may be generally grouped as high islands, coral lime stone islands and atolls. The GEF is working with island countries in the Pacific, as well as Africa, and the Caribbean to produce food sustainably, manage water responsibly, and produce energy efficiently, all while ensuring ecosystems remain intact through an ecosystems-based, integrated approach known as Ridge-to-Reef (R2R) which is blending GEF national and regional resources where appropriate.