Sentence examples for in the eezs from inspiring English sources

The assets and needs of all countries have to be identified, as well as the constraints impeding data exchange and marine observations in the EEZs.

Seabed minerals have been found in the EEZs of the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu (manganese, cobalt and other minerals), PNG and Fiji (polymetallic sulphides), and Pitcairn (diamonds).

The current estimate of undiscovered fish diversity in the EEZ is around 760 species.

Nearly half the world's cetaceans have been recorded in the EEZ, in other words, 43 species and subspecies.

Seven of the 12 species of albatross (Diomedeidae) that currently breed in the EEZ are endemic to the New Zealand region.

Six species of penguins still nest in the EEZ and one, Megadyptes antipodes, represents a monotypic endemic genus.

The implication is that, when all other New Zealand phyla are equally well studied, total marine diversity in the EEZ may be expected to equal that in the ERMS region.

Additionally, in 2007, the New Zealand government established 17 Benthic Protection Areas in deep water; these protect about 30% of the seabed in the EEZ from deep-sea bottom trawling and dredging activity (Figure 5).

Although the EEZ estimates carry substantial uncertainty, being based on relatively sparse OC and/or BD data for marine sediments, they indicate that large stocks of carbon reside in sediments within the EEZs of the three countries examined here.

The EEZs showing larger numbers of significant seamounts (n>30) were French Polynesia, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia and the Line Islands in Kiribati, and Solomon Islands.

The proportion of species that are threatened increases markedly with geographic size measured by number of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) spanned; one-quarter of threatened species span the EEZs of 18 or more countries.