Building Ocean Science Partnerships The United States and Mexico Working Together (1999) / Chapter Skim
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. These nations also realized their serious deficiencies in marine science knowledge, marine science expertise, and marine infrastructure to carry out their anticipated responsibilities under the Third UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (CONVEMAR)
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All of these entities are oriented toward developing physical infrastructure and human resources, so Mexico emphasized these as aspects of development; relatively little funding was available from international sources for research. For example, the Agency for International Development (AID)
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In 1994, the ratification of CONVEMAR finished and the CONVEMAR Convention entered into force. Because of the debt crisis, it was difficult to obtain significant research funding in Mexico and Mexican marine science was disadvantaged at a time when the United States was making significant advances in funding for ocean sciences.
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For example, recognition of the value of marine sciences and marine education as necessary for decisionmaking in the larger context of governmental and national policy, although relatively modest in the United States, has been even more modest in Mexico. The siting of power plants in coastal areas of Mexico is considered highly appropriate and less subject to adverse reaction by the local citizenry than in the United States.
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A similar program in the Gulf of Mexico, MEXUS-Golfo, was initiated in 1977 and is a cooperative venture between INP and the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Mexico and the United States participate in a variety of multinational organizations designed to manage pelagic fish stocks.
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The head of the Gulf of California has been transformed from a brackish delta to a highly saline environment because of freshwater removals from the Colorado River, endangering species such as the totouba, a large sportfish that once flourished in gulf waters, and altering sediment input to the gulf. Inputs of polluted river water from the Rio Grande and the Tijuana Slough are detrimental to marine ecosystems and human health on both sides of the border.
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As in the case of fisheries, Mexico and the United States have an important stake in cooperating to preserve marine biological diversity because the distributions of many marine species cross our common border and gene flow among populations are often necessary to preserve the genetic diversity and adaptability of species. Preservation of marine biodiversity is important for sustaining healthy marine ecosystems and could also contribute to the discovery of new natural products ~ .
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The use of collaborative binational approaches to address the intellectual challenges of marine sciences facing the nations would be a remarkable example of mutually beneficial cooperation between sovereign nations and an impressive, positive example to their own citizens as well as to the broader community of nations. It is hoped that this consensus report of the Academia Mexicana de CienciasNational Research Council (AMC-NRC)
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