Another source would be fisheries' bycatch.

Wave power is restricted to coastal areas.

These animals and their demise occurs in the tuna fisheries.

And that's the fisheries off the state of North Carolina.

People are losing their jobs because the fisheries are collapsing.

Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.

This one has coastal access, which makes it more expensive.

An early coastal migration along the south coast of Asia,

Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.

They've been around a long time, very important to coastal communities.

And then we have the under performance of fisheries that is 50 billion dollars.

The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great anchoveta fisheries, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those fisheries collapse.

Now, we will block the Persian coastal assault, by rebuilding the great Phocian wall.

And in the Mediterranean, in the swordfish net fisheries, they make up up to 90 percent.

Here in Monterey, a small coastal city in California with lots and lots of pedestrians.

Descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization which once carpeted the Caribbean coastal plain of Colombia, in the wake of the conquest, these people retreated into an isolated volcanic massif that soars above the Caribbean coastal plain.

So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

And I was free for dinner, and I went out to dinner with the Minister of Fisheries in Kiribati.

I wound up studying sea birds to try to stay in the coastal habitats that I so loved.

And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.

Some climate models predict subtle changes, others forecast rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas around the world.

It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.

So marine conservation and coastal protection has become a sink for government or philanthropic money, and this is not sustainable.

I could imagine a policy that lets Canada and America fish, because they manage their fisheries well, they're doing a good job.

And to be able to do that is a tremendous fisheries tool, because knowing how many fish are there is really critical.

And the fisheries for this tilapia sustained lots of fish and they had a good time and they earned more than average in Ghana.

There was no fishing, there was no pollution, there was no coastal development, and the reef is on a full bore recovery.

The Phoenix Islands and all the equatorial parts of our planet are very important for tuna fisheries, especially this yellowfin tuna that you see here.

I know that because I have friends who work on fisheries' research vessels who have sent to me reports from boats out in the ocean.

And what we see is that for coastal tags, for those organisms that live near the shoreline, they're most diverse in the tropics.

I wanted to see what my home town of Long Beach was contributing to the problem, so on Coastal Clean Up Day in 2005

60 to 80 percent of the workforce in China is women in the coastal part of the country, whereas in India, it's all men.

And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to a much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.

Climate change, ocean acidification, dissolved oxygen, carbon cycle, coastal upwelling, fishing dynamics the full spectrum of earth science and ocean science simultaneously in the same volume.

The color represents the concentration of the tracer, relative to the initial concentration in the coastal area off Fukushima at the end of the injection period.

She looked at thousands of cases of humans sharing watersheds, forestry resources, fisheries, and discovered that yes, in case after case, humans destroyed the commons that they depended on.

Tonight at 8 p.m., in a coastal town, the heir to ShinHwa Group, Goo JunPyo, was... ...was the victim of an assault and... ...has sent shock throughout.

And dead zones will get bigger and bigger and they'll start to merge, and we can imagine something like the dead zonification of the global, coastal ocean.

AII right, I'll be right back. We'll do nothing together. I know most of these Mexican coastal towns if you'd Like some company and a genial guide.

Second, the governance is not right because most coastal communities around the world don't have the authority to monitor the resources to create the reserve and enforce it.

We really need to develop models, business models, where coastal conservation is an investment, because we already know that these marine reserves provide social, ecological and economic benefits.

But many of you have said, if you get these marine protected areas, or a reasonable regime for high seas fisheries management in place, how are you going to enforce it?

This plant is called the Welwitschia, and it lives only in parts of coastal Namibia and Angola, where it's uniquely adapted to collect moisture from mist coming off the sea.

If you include the coastal ice shelves, you can see that the Ross Ice Shelf it's the big one down here the Ross Ice Shelf is the size of France.