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... Examples of marine concerns affecting both the United States and Mexico include commercial and recreational fisheries management, protection of marine birds and mammals, water quality and quantity, oil and gas development, tourism and commercial development, biological diversity, and coastal zone management. Managing and protecting shared marine resources and solving shared marine environmental problems will require stronger binational cooperation in education, research, monitoring, modeling, and management.
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... Also in relation to climate, both the California Borderland and the Gulf of California provide the opportunity to study past conditions through analysis of laminated sediments whose deposition is affected by climate. Although the Gulf of California is located entirely within the borders of Mexico, the United States has a large effect on this gulf because of reduction of the quantity and the quality of water entering the head of the gulf through the Colorado River, as well as the major impact of U.S.
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... There is substantial potential for collaboration between the United States and Mexico in exploring for and developing marine natural products. Despite the great scientific promise in areas described above, a number of actions must be taken to make collaborative research more effective, to improve ocean science capabilities, and to form strong partnerships between Mexico and the United States.
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... In addition to strengthening the human "infrastructure," the physical infrastructure of science should be shared to mutual advantage between Mexico and the United States in the short term and the Mexican infrastructure should be built up in the longer term to achieve self-sustaining capabilities in the ocean sciences. Such capabilities are important both to enable the cooperation of Mexican ocean scientists with their colleagues from the United States and other nations and to allow Mexican scientists to respond to their nation's ocean-related challenges and opportunities more effectively.
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... Most of the recommendations contained in this report require implementation by the federal agencies of the United States and Mexico. Some of the recommendations are also applicable, however, to private foundations, state agencies, academic and research institutions, individual ocean scientists, scientific societies, and/or the national academies of the two nations.
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