Examples of goals and objectives
Yellow Sea LME SAP Goals (2009)
Goal 1: 25-30% reduction in fishing effort
Goal 2: Rebuilding of over-exploited marine living resources
Goal 3: Improvement of mariculture techniques to reduce environmental stress
Goal 4: Meeting international requirements on contaminants
Goal 5: Reduction of total loading of nutrients from 2006 levels
Goal 6: Reduced standing stock of marine litter from current level
Goal 7: Reduce contaminants, particularly in bathing beaches and other marine recreational waters, to nationally acceptable levels
Goal 8: Better understanding and prediction of ecosystem changes for adaptive management
Goal 9: Maintenance and improvement of current populations/distributions and genetic diversity of the living organisms including endangered and endemic species
Goal 10: Reduction of the risk of introduced species