64 64 61 32 20 34 12 36 30 13 26 38 3 11 2 52 21 53 28 58 1 5 56 49 42 46 29 40 14 55 9 63 43 10 50 27 37 17 24 16 57 45 22 47 39 54 31 41 18 59 51 44 15 53 62 48 35 7 6 19 23 33 8 25 4 60 64 2 20 53 1 21 63 56 55 58 22 54 57 59 18 19 60 61 Large Marine Ecosystems of the World LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS are areas of the ocean characterized by distinct bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophic interactions. They annually produce 80 percent of the world's fish catch. They are national and regional focal areas of a global effort to reduce the degradation of linked watersheds, marine resources, and coastal environments from pollution, habitat loss, and over-fishing. For More Information Visit: http://www.lme.noaa.gov SOUTH POLAR REGION MAP KEY: LME Numbers: 80˚ 0˚ -20˚ -40˚ -60˚ -80˚ -100˚ -120˚ -140˚ -160˚ 160˚ 140˚ 120˚ 100˚ 80˚ 60˚ 40˚ 20˚ 60˚ 40˚ 20˚ 0˚ -20˚ -40˚ -60˚ -80˚ NORTH POLAR REGION C. Damon August, 2010 Winkel Tripel Projection Scale = 1 : 54,500,000 1 in = 1,342 miles 1 cm = 850 km 0 500 1,000 1,500 Miles 0 800 1,600 2,400 Kilometers Bathymetry (2-minute) : Smith and Sandwell, 1997 Bathymetry (5-minute) : NAVOCEANO, DBDB5 Watersheds (HYDRO 1k): USGS Eros Data Center Terresterial Image, Political Boundaries : ESRI Data Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 East Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska California Current Gulf of California Gulf of Mexico Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Scotian Shelf Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf Insular Pacific-Hawaiian Pacific Central-American Coastal Caribbean Sea Humboldt Current Patagonian Shelf South Brazil Shelf East Brazil Shelf North Brazil Shelf West Greenland Shelf East Greenland Shelf Barents Sea Norwegian Sea North Sea Baltic Sea Celtic-Biscay Shelf Iberian Coastal Mediterranean Sea Canary Current Guinea Current Benguela Current Agulhas Current Somali Coastal Current Arabian Sea Red Sea Bay of Bengal Gulf of Thailand South China Sea Sulu-Celebes Sea Indonesian Sea North Australian Shelf Northeast Australian Shelf - Great Barrier Reef East-Central Australian Shelf Southeast Australian Shelf Southwest Australian Shelf West-Central Australian Shelf Northwest Australian Shelf New Zealand Shelf East China Sea Yellow Sea Kuroshio Current Sea of Japan / East Sea Oyashio Current Sea of Okhotsk West Bering Sea Chukchi Sea Beaufort Sea East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea Kara Sea Iceland Shelf Faroe Plateau Antarctic Black Sea Hudson Bay Arctic Ocean LME Boundary Political Boundary Meters Feet Depth 0 -3,353 -1,676 -686 -2,362 -343 -1,029 -2,019 -2,705 0 -11,000 -5,500 -2,250 -7,750 -1,125 -3,375 -6,625 -8,875