NOAA 200th: Top Tens: Breakthroughs: Large Marine Ecosystems: Map

Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) produce 95 percent of the world's fish catch

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Site 1-33
Site 34-64

Site Location

1. East Bering Sea
2. Gulf of Alaska
3. California Current
4. Gulf of California
5. Gulf of Mexico
6. SE U.S. Continental Shelf
7. NE U.S. Continental Shelf
8. Scotian Shelf
9. Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf
10. Insular Pacific-Hawaiian
11. Pacific Central-American Coastal

12. Caribbean Sea
13. Humboldt Current
14. Patagonian Shelf
15. South Brazil Shelf
16. East Brazil Shelf
17. North Brazil Shelf
18. West Greenland Shelf
19. East Greenland Shelf
20. Barents Sea
21. Norwegian Shelf
22. North Sea

23. Baltic Sea
24. Celtic-Biscay Shelf
25. Iberian Coastal
26. Mediterranean Sea
27. Canary Current
28. Guinea Current
29. Benguela Current
30. Agulhas Current
31. Somali Coastal Current
32. Arabian Sea
33. Red Sea

Site Location

34. Bay of Bengal
35. Gulf of Thailand
36. South China Sea
37. Sulu-Celebes Sea
38. Indonesian Sea
39. North Australian Shelf
40. Northeast Australian Shelf
41. East-Central Australian Shelf
42. Southwest Australian Shelf
43. Southwest Australian Shelf

44. West-Central Australian Shelf
45. Northwest Australian Shelf
46. New Zealand Shelf
47. East China Sea
48. Yellow Sea
49. Kuroshio Current
50. Sea of Japan
51. Oyashio Current
52. Sea of Okhotsk
53. West Bering Sea

54. Chukchi Sea
55. Beaufort Sea
56. East Siberian Sea
57. Laptev Sea
58. Kara Sea
59. Iceland Shelf
60. Faroe Plateau
61. Antarctica
62. Black Sea
63. Hudson Bay
64. Arctic Ocean

Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) produce 95 percent of the world's fish catch, making them the focal point of global efforts for sustained and predictable productivity. Oceanographers and biologists have identified 64 LMEs worldwide.