IMMAs Description and Fact Sheets

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All 209 /African Atlantic 1 /Australia New Zealand and Southeast Indian Ocean 31 /Black Sea, Turkish Straits System and Caspian Sea 14 /European Atlantic 1 /Extended Southern Ocean 13 /Mediterranean Region 26 /Northeast Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Seas 30 /Pacific Islands Region 20 /South East Tropical and Temperate Pacific Ocean 36 /Western Indian Ocean and Arabian Seas 37

Akamas and Chrysochou Bay

Akrotiri

Albany Canyon Region IMMA

Alborán Corridor

Alborán Deep

Alborán Sea

Aldabra Atoll IMMA

Almirantazgo Sound IMMA

Almirante Montt Gulf IMMA

Amsterdam Island, Saint Paul and Associated Waters IMMA

Austral Archipelago

Australian East Coast Migration Corridor IMMA

Babuyan Marine Corridor IMMA

Balaklava and the southern Crimea IMMA

Balearic Islands Shelf and Slope

Balikpapan, Adang and Apar Bays IMMA

Banderas Bay and Islands of Nayarit IMMA

Bazaruto Archipelago and Inhambane Bay IMMA

Berau and East Kutai District, Kalimantan IMMA

Bintuni Bay, West Papua IMMA

Bismarck Sea

Bohol Sea IMMA

Bouvetøya and Surrounding Waters IMMA

Buleleng IMMA

Cabo Blanco IMMA

Campanian and Pontino Archipelagos

Cape Coastal Waters IMMA

Carnegie Ridge, Galapagos to Mainland IMMA

Caspian Seal Breeding Area IMMA

Caspian Seal Moulting and Haul Out Areas IMMA

Caspian Seal Transitory Migration and Feeding Area IMMA

Central Aegean IMMA

Central America Humpback Whale Corridor IMMA

Central and Western Torres Strait IMMA

Central Humboldt Current Upwelling System IMMA

Central Magellan Strait IMMA

Central West Coast, North Island IMMA

Chacao Channel to Guamblín Island IMMA

Chesterfield-Bellona Coral Reef Complex and Seamounts IMMA

Chilika Lagoon IMMA

Chiloé Interior IMMA

Chios and Turkish Coast

Cilician Basin

Coastal Northern Bay of Bengal IMMA

Coastal Shelf Waters of the South East Levantine Sea

Cobquecura-Itata IMMA

Colchis IMMA

Comoros Island Chain and Adjacent Reef Banks IMMA

Con Dao IMMA

Continental Shelf of the Northern Humboldt Current IMMA

Cook Islands Southern Group

Costa Rica Thermal Dome IMMA

Crozet Islands IMMA

Dampier Archipelago IMMA

Dhofar IMMA

Eastern Indian Ocean Blue Whale Migratory Route IMMA

Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and Timor Coastal Area IMMA

Eastern Pacific Warm Pool IMMA

Emona IMMA

Farasan Archipelago IMMA

Galápagos Archipelago IMMA

Geographe Bay to Eucla Shelf and Coastal Waters IMMA

Golfo Dulce IMMA

Gorgona-Tribugá-Malpelo IMMA

Gough Island and Adjacent Waters IMMA

Gourdon Bay to Bigge Island IMMA

Great Barrier Ribbon Reefs and Outer Shelf IMMA

Greater Pemba Channel IMMA

Guadalupe Island IMMA

Gulf of Ambracia

Gulf of Arauco IMMA

Gulf of California IMMA

Gulf of Chiriquí IMMA

Gulf of Corinth

Gulf of Kutch IMMA

Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay IMMA

Gulf of Masirah and Offshore Waters IMMA

Gulf of Panama IMMA

Gulf of Penas IMMA

Gulf of Salwa IMMA

Heard Island, Kerguelen and Surrounding Waters IMMA

Hellenic Trench

Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait IMMA

Hikurangi Trench IMMA

Hinchinbrook to Round Hill IMMA

Houtman Abrolhos to Rottnest Shelf Waters IMMA

Humboldt Archipelago IMMA

Iloilo and Guimaras Straits IMMA

Indus Estuary and Creeks IMMA

Ionian Archipelago

Juan Fernández Archipelago IMMA

Kaikoura IMMA

Kaimana, West Papua IMMA

Kaliakra to Danube Delta IMMA

Karadag and Opuk IMMA

Karkinit and Dzharylhach Gulfs IMMA

Kélibia

Kerch Strait and Taman Bay IMMA

Kien Giang and Kep Archipelago IMMA

Kikori Delta

Kisite-Shimoni IMMA

Kona Coast of Hawaii Island

Kuching Bay IMMA

La Paz Bay and Surrounding Islands IMMA

Lakshadweep Archipelago IMMA

Lampedusa

Lamu Offshore IMMA

Macquarie Island and Ridge IMMA

Madagascar Central East Coast IMMA

Madeira and Desertas Islands IMMA

Magdalena-Puyuhuapi IMMA

Main Hawaiian Archipelago

Main Hawaiian Islands

Main Solomon Islands

Malampaya Sound IMMA

Maldives Archipelago and Adjacent Oceanic Waters IMMA

Mapoon to Aurukun IMMA

Marlborough Sounds and Cook Strait IMMA

Marquesas Archipelago

Mascarene Islands and Associated Oceanic Features IMMA

Matang Mangroves and Coastal Waters IMMA

Menai Bay IMMA

Mersing Archipelago IMMA

Miani Hor IMMA

Moreton Bay IMMA

Mozambique Coastal Breeding Grounds IMMA

Muscat Coastal Waters and Offshore Canyons IMMA

Nakhiloo Coastal Waters IMMA

New Caledonia Southern Seamounts and Banks

New Caledonian Lagoons and Shelf Waters

New Zealand Subantarctic Islands IMMA

Ningaloo Reef to Montebello Islands IMMA

North East Arabian Sea IMMA

North West Mediterranean Sea, Slope, and Canyon System

Northern Adriatic

Northern Coast and Islands of the Thracian Sea

Northern Coast of Cyprus

Northern Great Barrier Reef IMMA

Northern Gulf and Confluence of the Tigris, Euphrates and Kuran IMMA

Northern Red Sea Islands IMMA

Northern Sporades

Northwest Madagascar and Northeast Mozambique Channel IMMA

Northwestern Australian Coastal Waters and Inlets IMMA

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Oman Arabian Sea IMMA

Osa Peninsula IMMA

Pacific Coast of Baja California Peninsula IMMA

Palmyra Atoll

Papudo-Maitencillo IMMA

Pitipalena Añihué IMMA

Prince Edward Islands and Western Oceanic Waters IMMA

Rakiura Stewart Island and Te Ara a Kiwa IMMA

Rangitāhua Kermadec IMMA

Revillagigedo Archipelago IMMA

Ross Sea Ecosystem IMMA

Samoan Archipelago

San José Canyon and Adjacent Shelf IMMA

San Juan del Sur – Papagayo IMMA

Satun-Langkawi Archipelago IMMA

Savu Sea and Surrounding Areas IMMA

Scotia Arc IMMA

Scott Islands and Iselin Bank IMMA

Sea of Azov IMMA

Seychelles Plateau and Adjacent Oceanic Waters IMMA

Shark Bay IMMA

Shelf of the Gulf of Lion

Shelf Waters of Southern Madagascar IMMA

Similajau-Kuala Nyalau Coastline IMMA

Sindhudurg-Karwar IMMA

Sinop IMMA

Society Archipelago

South Australian Gulfs and Adjacent Waters IMMA

South East African Coastal Migration Corridor IMMA

South Georgia IMMA

South Taranaki Bight IMMA

South West Madagascar and Mozambique Channel IMMA

South West to Eastern Sri Lanka IMMA

Southeastern Australian and Tasmanian Shelf Waters IMMA

Southern Andaman Islands IMMA

Southern Australian Coastal and Shelf Region IMMA

Southern Bali Peninsula and Adjacent Slope IMMA

Southern Coastal and Shelf Waters of South Africa IMMA

Southern Egyptian Red Sea Bays, Offshore Reefs and Islands IMMA

Southern Great Barrier Reef Lagoon and Coast IMMA

Southern Gulf and Coastal Waters IMMA

Southern Gulf of Carpentaria IMMA

Southern Shelf Waters and Slope Edge of Palau

Strait of Gibraltar and Gulf of Cadiz

Sundarbans IMMA

Swatch-of-No-Ground IMMA

Tañon Strait IMMA

Tikapa Moana Te Moananui ā Toi Hauraki IMMA

Toliara, St. Augustine Canyon and Anakao IMMA

Tolitoli IMMA

Tongan Archipelago

Turkish Straits System and Prebosphoric IMMA

Upper Gulf of California IMMA

Vatu-i-Ra

Wakatobi and Adjacent Waters IMMA

Watamu-Malindi and Watamu Banks IMMA

Waters of Ischia and Ventotene

Waters of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands

Western Antarctic Peninsula and Islands IMMA

Western Australian Humpback Whale Migration Route IMMA

Western Baja California Lagoons and Coastal Waters IMMA

Western Black Sea IMMA

Western Lesser Sunda Islands and Sumba Coastal Area IMMA

Western Ligurian Sea and Genoa Canyon

Western Magellan Strait IMMA