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Abrolhos Bank IMMA

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

Alvarado Inland and Coastal Waters and Veracruz Reef System IMMA

Amsterdam Island, Saint Paul and Associated Waters IMMA

Argentine Basin IMMA

Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula IMMA

Austral Archipelago

Australian East Coast Migration Corridor IMMA

Azores Archipelago IMMA

Babitonga Bay IMMA

Babuyan Marine Corridor IMMA

Balaklava and the southern Crimea IMMA

Balearic Islands Shelf and Slope

Balikpapan, Adang and Apar Bays IMMA

Baltic Proper IMMA

Baltic Ringed Seal Area IMMA

Banderas Bay and Islands of Nayarit IMMA

Bay of Fundy IMMA

Bazaruto Archipelago and Inhambane Bay IMMA

Beagle Channel to Cape Horn IMMA

Berau and East Kutai District, Kalimantan IMMA

Bintuni Bay, West Papua IMMA

Biscay Abyssal Plain IMMA

Biscay Shelf Edge and Slope IMMA

Bismarck Sea

Black Sea Eastern Anatolian Coast IMMA

Bohol Sea IMMA

Borikén IMMA

Bouvetøya and Surrounding Waters IMMA

Buleleng IMMA

Cabo Blanco IMMA

Cabot Strait IMMA

Campanian and Pontino Archipelagos

Campeche and Tabasco Lagoon System IMMA

Canary and Madeira Islands IMMA

Cape Breton Trough IMMA

Cape Coastal Waters IMMA

Cape Hatteras Shelf Break Point 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

Cayo Miskito IMMA

Celtic Sea IMMA

Central Aegean IMMA

Central America Humpback Whale Corridor IMMA

Central and Western Torres Strait IMMA

Central Humboldt Current Upwelling System IMMA

Central Irish Sea IMMA

Central Magellan Strait IMMA

Central Mozambique Channel and Western Madagascar 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

Coabana IMMA

Coast and Shelf Waters of Eastern Te Waipounamu IMMA

Coastal Northern Bay of Bengal IMMA

Coastal Shelf Waters of the South East Levantine Sea

Coastal Waters of Santa Catarina, Paranà and Sao Paolo State IMMA

Cobquecura-Itata IMMA

Colchis IMMA

Commerson’s Dolphin Habitat Network IMMA

Comoros Island Chain and Adjacent Reef Banks IMMA

Con Dao IMMA

Continental Shelf of the Northern Humboldt Current IMMA

Cook Islands Southern Group

Coral Coast IMMA

Costa Rica Thermal Dome IMMA

Crozet Islands IMMA

Dakhla Bay IMMA

Dampier Archipelago IMMA

Dhofar IMMA

Dingle to Mizen Head IMMA

Dogger Bank IMMA

East Florida Warm Water Refuges IMMA

Eastern Caribbean Islands IMMA

Eastern Indian Ocean Blue Whale Migratory Route IMMA

Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and Timor Coastal Area IMMA

Eastern North Sea and Southern Slopes of the Norwegian Trench Complex IMMA

Eastern Pacific Warm Pool IMMA

Eastern Scotian Slope Canyons IMMA

Emona IMMA

Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Inner Shelf Waters IMMA

Farasan Archipelago IMMA

Fernando de Noronha IMMA

Florida Keys IMMA

Galápagos Archipelago IMMA

Geographe Bay to Eucla Shelf and Coastal Waters IMMA

Georges Bank Canyons and Bear Seamount 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

Guanabara-Sepetiba Coastal Embayment Complex IMMA

Guianas to Amazon Outflow 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 Maine and Georges Bank IMMA

Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay IMMA

Gulf of Masirah and Offshore Waters IMMA

Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and Continental Slope 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

Ladoga Lake IMMA

Laguna San Rafael IMMA

Laje de Santos – Ilha Grande IMMA

Lake Gatun and Panama Canal IMMA

Lakshadweep Archipelago IMMA

Lampedusa

Lamu Offshore IMMA

Lucayan Archipelago IMMA

Macquarie Island and Ridge IMMA

Madagascar Central East Coast IMMA

Madagascar Ridge 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

Manatee Estuarine Complex IMMA

Mapoon to Aurukun IMMA

Maracaibo Lake System IMMA

Marine mammal coastal corridor in northern Argentina IMMA

Marlborough Sounds and Cook Strait IMMA

Marquesas Archipelago

Mascarene Islands and Associated Oceanic Features IMMA

Matang Mangroves and Coastal Waters IMMA

Mécatina Trough and Strait of Belle Isle IMMA

Menai Bay IMMA

Mersing Archipelago IMMA

Mesoamerican Barrier Reef IMMA

Miani Hor IMMA

Mid-Atlantic Bight IMMA

Minches and the Sea of the Hebrides IMMA

Monach Isles and Outer Hebrides Western Continental Shelf IMMA

Moray Firth to Humber Estuary 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 Atlantic Humpback Whale Migratory Corridor IMMA

North East Arabian Sea IMMA

North West Mediterranean Sea, Slope, and Canyon System

North-east Falklands (Malvinas) Right Whale Wintering Area IMMA

Northeast of Santa Cruz Province IMMA

Northeastern Brazil Antarctic Minke Whale Breeding Habitat IMMA

Northern Adriatic and Dalmatian Archipelago IMMA

Northern Coast and Islands of the Thracian Sea

Northern Coast of Cyprus

Northern Continental Shelf of the Bay of Biscay IMMA

Northern Espírito Santo Coastal Waters IMMA

Northern Great Barrier Reef IMMA

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

Northern Gulf of Mexico Bays, Sounds and Estuaries IMMA

Northern Patagonian Gulfs and Valdes Front IMMA

Northern Red Sea Islands IMMA

Northern Rio de Janeiro IMMA

Northern Sargasso Sea IMMA

Northern Sporades

Northwest Atlantic Canyon and Slope System IMMA

Northwest Madagascar and Northeast Mozambique Channel IMMA

Northwestern and Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence IMMA

Northwestern Australian Coastal Waters and Inlets IMMA

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Oman Arabian Sea IMMA

Orkney Isles and Pentland Firth IMMA

Osa Peninsula IMMA

Pacific Coast of Baja California Peninsula IMMA

Palmyra Atoll

Papudo-Maitencillo IMMA

Paraíba Coast IMMA

Paranaguá-Cananéia Estuarine Embayments Complexes IMMA

Pitipalena Añihué IMMA

Porcupine Seabight and Bank IMMA

Prince Edward Islands and Western Oceanic Waters IMMA

Punta Mona to Bocas del Toro Archipelago IMMA

Rakiura Stewart Island and Te Ara a Kiwa IMMA

Rangitāhua Kermadec IMMA

Revillagigedo Archipelago IMMA

Rias of Galicia IMMA

Rockall Trough Seamounts and Banks IMMA

Ross Sea Ecosystem IMMA

Sable Island Grey Seal Breeding Area IMMA

Sackville Spur and Orphan Basin IMMA

Sado Estuary IMMA

Saimaa Lake IMMA

Samoan Archipelago

San Jorge Gulf IMMA

San José Canyon and Adjacent Shelf IMMA

San Juan del Sur – Papagayo IMMA

São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago IMMA

Satun-Langkawi Archipelago IMMA

Savu Sea and Surrounding Areas IMMA

Scotia Arc IMMA

Scott Islands and Iselin Bank IMMA

Sea Lion Islands Group 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

Shetland and Fair Isle IMMA

Similajau-Kuala Nyalau Coastline IMMA

Sindhudurg-Karwar IMMA

Sinop IMMA

Slope Front of the Argentine Shelf IMMA

Society Archipelago

Somers Isles and Adjacent Seamounts IMMA

South Atlantic Bight IMMA

South Australian Gulfs and Adjacent Waters IMMA

South Brazil Bight 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

South Western Patagonian Continental Shelf IMMA

Southeast Shoal of Grand Banks IMMA

Southeastern Australian and Tasmanian Shelf Waters IMMA

Southeastern Rockall Slope and Canyons IMMA

Southern Andaman Islands IMMA

Southern Australian Coastal and Shelf Region IMMA

Southern Bali Peninsula and Adjacent Slope IMMA

Southern Biscay Canyon System IMMA

Southern Brazil and Uruguay Coastal Ecosystems IMMA

Southern Caribbean Upwelling System 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 Labrador Pack Ice Whelping Area IMMA

Southern Newfoundland Shelf IMMA

Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel Seasonal Aggregation IMMA

Southern Patagonia Coastal Waters IMMA

Southern Shelf Waters and Slope Edge of Palau

Southwest Atlantic Humpback Migratory Corridor IMMA

Southwest Atlantic Subtropical Continental Slope and Canyons System IMMA

St. Lawrence Estuary IMMA

St. Vincent-Bequia Channel IMMA

Sundarbans IMMA

Swatch-of-No-Ground IMMA

Tañon Strait IMMA

Texas Coastal Bend IMMA

The Shannon (Sionna) Approaches IMMA

The Wash 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

Urabá to Morrosquillo IMMA

Vatu-i-Ra

Wadden Sea IMMA

Wakatobi and Adjacent Waters IMMA

Wallis and Futuna IMMA

Watamu-Malindi and Watamu Banks IMMA

Waters of Ischia and Ventotene

Waters of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands

West Florida Seagrass Beds IMMA

West Indies Humpback Whale Breeding Ground IMMA

Western and Central Scotian Shelf Basins IMMA

Western Antarctic Peninsula and Islands IMMA

Western Australian Humpback Whale Migration Route IMMA

Western Baja California Lagoons and Coastal Waters IMMA

Western Baltic IMMA

Western Black Sea IMMA

Western English Channel IMMA

Western Lesser Sunda Islands and Sumba Coastal Area IMMA

Western Ligurian Sea and Genoa Canyon

Western Magellan Strait IMMA

Yká Ulu IMMA

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