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Current, The Journal For Marine Education, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1995. 32 pp.

This issue of Current is dedicated to the diversity of life in the oceans. The issue brings to the members of the National Marine Education Association a definition of biological diversity and compares and contrasts marine and terrestrial ecosystems. In addition to these issues, this resource provides a broad outlook of the human threats to marine diversity, outlines present management measures for sustaining marine biodiversity, and presents information and tools that can be incorporated into educational programs. There are seven articles in this issue, ones like "The Effects of Overfishing on Biodiversity" and "Threats to Coastal Diversity: Wetland Habitat Destruction" are certainly helpful and quite resourceful, but perhaps the most significant article to the Gulf of Maine program is the one titled "Making Connections: Global Lessons from the Gulf of Maine."

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