Since 2009, people around the world have celebrated World Oceans Day. The United Nations General Assembly took the concept, first proposed in 1992 and made it official on 5 December 2008. Since then, the event has grown and spread as the realization of the ocean?s importance to humanity has increased.

We have come to learn that oceans drive global systems that make it possible to live on this earth. So much of what we take for granted ? oxygen, rainfall, much of our food ? is dependent on the health of the ocean.
As understanding grows it is apparent that management of this global resource is of prime importance.

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